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Virtual Computing Environment

Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE) was a division of EMC Corporation that manufactured converged infrastructure appliances for enterprise environments. Founded in 2009 under the name Acadia, it was originally a joint venture between EMC and Cisco Systems, with additional investments by Intel and EMC subsidiary VMware. EMC acquired a 90%…

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Founded
2009 2011 (as VCE)
Industry
cloud platforms
Defunct
January 2016
Fate
Acquired by EMC, which was later acquired by Dell Technologies
Key people
Chad Sakac (President) Trey Layton (CTO)
Parent
EMC Corporation

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Virtual Computing Environment

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Avg. degree1.97
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related to history · 19
Virtual Computing Environment → Acadia, At, By, Capellas, CEO, Cisco, Cisco Systems, EMC, EMC Corporation, EMC World, May, Michael Capellas, November, Sales, The, Vblock Infrastructure Packages, VCE, VMware, VMware-Cisco-EMC
related to Original systems · 12
Virtual Computing Environment → Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS, EMC Celerrastorage, EMC Clariion, EMC Symmetrix VMAX, In, MDS, The, Vblock, Vblock Infrastructure Packages, Vblock System, VMware
Defunct · 1
Virtual Computing Environment → January 2016
Fate · 1
Virtual Computing Environment → Acquired by EMC, which was later acquired by Dell Technologies
Founded · 1
Virtual Computing Environment → 2009 2011 (as VCE)
Industry · 1
Virtual Computing Environment → cloud platforms
Key people · 1
Virtual Computing Environment → Chad Sakac (President) Trey Layton (CTO)
Parent · 1
Virtual Computing Environment → EMC Corporation
Products · 1
Virtual Computing Environment → Vblock, VxBlock, VxRack, VxRail
Type · 1
Virtual Computing Environment → Division

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emc vblock vce cisco vmware systems announced infrastructure software virtual storage system 2013 computing data later 2011 environment called converged

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Virtual Computing EnvironmentDefunctJanuary 20161.00infobox
Virtual Computing EnvironmentFateAcquired by EMC, which was later acquired by Dell Technologies1.00infobox
Virtual Computing EnvironmentFounded2009 2011 (as VCE)1.00infobox
Virtual Computing EnvironmentIndustrycloud platforms1.00infobox
Virtual Computing EnvironmentKey peopleChad Sakac (President) Trey Layton (CTO)1.00infobox
Virtual Computing EnvironmentParentEMC Corporation1.00infobox
Virtual Computing EnvironmentProductsVblock, VxBlock, VxRack, VxRail1.00infobox
Virtual Computing EnvironmentTypeDivision1.00infobox
Virtual Computing EnvironmentWebsitewww.vce.com1.00infobox
NetApp FlexPodinstance ofand continued confusion due to products from competing partners0.80text
Xsigo Systemsinstance ofand continued confusion due to products from competing partners0.80text
Microsoft Exchange Serverinstance ofthe storage can be accessed as either a block device or a file server.Vblock Systems are marketed for large-scale datacenters which run software applications0.80text

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