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Virtual Computing Environment: History, Companies & Products

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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Virtual Computing Environment topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Companies and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Virtual Computing Environment.

Related topics
55
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
58
Extracted relationships
39
Related term clusters
28
Bridge connections
58

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Products and services · 28 topics
History · 20 topics
Overview · 7 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

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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Overview

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How Virtual Computing Environment connects Entity context

The extracted context around Virtual Computing Environment shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Virtual Computing Environment → Acadia, Capellas, CEO, Cisco, Cisco Systems, EMC, EMC Corporation, EMC World, May, Michael Capellas, November, Sales, Vblock Infrastructure Packages, VCE, VMware, VMware-Cisco-EMC Another extracted example is Virtual Computing Environment → Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS, EMC Celerrastorage, EMC Clariion, EMC Symmetrix VMAX, MDS, Vblock, Vblock Infrastructure Packages, Vblock System, VMware. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Virtual Computing Environment

Top relations

related to history · 16
Virtual Computing Environment → Acadia, Capellas, CEO, Cisco, Cisco Systems, EMC, EMC Corporation, EMC World, May, Michael Capellas, November, Sales, Vblock Infrastructure Packages, VCE, VMware, VMware-Cisco-EMC
related to Original systems · 10
Virtual Computing Environment → Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS, EMC Celerrastorage, EMC Clariion, EMC Symmetrix VMAX, MDS, 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

Important terminology

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Important terminology

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

Virtual Computing Environment relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 39 structured relationships around Virtual Computing Environment. Examples in this analysis include Virtual Computing Environment → Defunct → January 2016 and Virtual Computing Environment → Fate → Acquired by EMC, which was later acquired by Dell Technologies. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
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

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Virtual Computing Environment bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Environment, Virtual and Infrastructure. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Virtual Computing Environment
    • Environment
    • Virtual
    • Infrastructure
    • Company
    • Packages
    • Called
    • Division
    • Acadia
    • Software
    • Converged
    • Storage
    • Vce
  • virtual computing environment
    • Environment
    • Virtual
    • Company
    • Infrastructure
    • Packages
    • Called
    • Later
    • Division
    • Originally
    • Acadia
    • Software
    • Converged
  • emc corporation
    • Cisco
    • Vmware
    • Storage
    • Dell
    • Vblock
    • Virtual
    • Software
    • Converged
    • Vce
    • Systems
    • Acquired
    • Servers
  • converged infrastructure
    • Division
    • Packages
    • Vblock
    • Systems
    • Servers
    • Virtual
    • Emc
    • Infrastructure
    • Dell
    • Called
    • Software
    • Data
  • cisco systems
    • Vmware
    • Emc
    • Vblock
    • Software
    • Servers
    • Storage
    • Systems
    • Vce
    • Acquired
    • Venture
    • Virtualization
    • Products
  • vmware
    • Cisco
    • Software
    • Systems
    • Emc
    • Storage
    • Called
    • Virtualization
    • Vblock
    • Servers
    • Later
    • Infrastructure
    • Company
  • cloud computing
    • Environment
    • Virtual
    • Infrastructure
    • Company
    • Packages
    • Called
    • Division
    • Acadia
    • Software
    • Converged
    • Vce
    • Later
  • startup company
    • Environment
    • Virtual
    • Computing
    • Division
    • Converged
    • Called
    • Infrastructure
    • Acquired
    • Virtualization
    • Vce
    • Packages
    • Products

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Virtual Computing Environment, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Virtual Computing Environment with Products and services. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Virtual Computing Environment — Products and services · splits 30 ⟂ 29
Virtual Computing Environment — History · splits 38 ⟂ 21
Virtual Computing Environment — Overview · splits 51 ⟂ 8

Map overview Semantic statistics

Virtual Computing Environment

Nodes59
Edges58
Triples39
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033898
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Virtual Computing Environment to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Virtual Computing Environment · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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