No confirmed numbers were announced publicly by VCE or its investors until 2013 <ref name="crn">{{Cite web|url=http://www.crn.com/news/networking/240004002/vce-taps-cisco-veteran-as-new-ceo.htm|title = VCE Taps Cisco Veteran as New CEO|date = 19 July 2012}}</ref> but when it was disclosed the numbers were provided conservatively as being over 800 customers in almost 60 countries with nearly 2000 VCE manufactured Vblock Systems sold.<ref name="vce">{{Cite web|url=http://www.vce.com/about/media/news?id=tcm:20-18846|title=Converged Infrastructure (CI)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite webpress release|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vce-surpasses-2013-goal-of-1-billion-in-annual-sales1-accelerates-growth-in-q1-2014-258445551.html|title=VCE Surpasses 2013 Goal of $1 Billion in Annual Sales(1), Accelerates Growth in Q1 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/04/11/vce-passes-1b-with-50-year-to-year-growth/|title = VCE passes $1B with 50% year-to-year growth|date = 11 April 2014}}</ref> Because of the lack of a manufactured physical and logical build on an actual VCE manufacturing floor, previous deployments in 2009 and early 2010 of what were called or referred to as Vblock (often with various use of upper and lower case spelling) are not considered to be Vblock by some pundits and infrastructure professionals <ref name="bythebell">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bythebell.com/2010/10/customers-embracing-vblocks-but-vce-sales-harmony-a-work-in-progress.html|title = Customers embracing Vblocks, but VCE sales harmony a work in progress|date = 19 October 2010}}</ref> since these so-called reference architectures varied greatly from project to project when compared to late 2010 manufactured Vblock. Anecdotally, institutions and companies using Vblock have been involved in published testimonials.<ref name="ventech">http://www.ventech.com/2012/07/vblock-video-success-story-ms-community-college-board/</ref><ref name="bare_url_f">{{Cite web|url=http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/09/15/taking-college-it-out-of-the-hardware-business.aspx|title=Taking College IT Out of the Hardware Business -}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://blocksandbytes.com/2013/01/27/vce-vblock-1st-year-in-review/ |title=VCE vBlock – 1st Year in Review {{!}} blocksandbytes |website=blocksandbytes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302112731/http://blocksandbytes.com/2013/01/27/vce-vblock-1st-year-in-review |archive-date=2013-03-02}}</ref>
