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On September 7, 2016, EMC was acquired by Dell.<ref name="dellsale">{{Cite web|title=$67 billion Dell-EMC deal closes today|url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/67-billion-dell-emc-deal-becomes-official-today/|date=2016-09-07|access-date=2022-04-28|website=TechCrunch|language=en-US}}</ref> The Converged Platform Division of EMC is currently known as the Converged Platform and Solutions Division of Dell EMC.

By February 2018, Dell EMC announced VxBlock System 1000<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-emc-unveils-new-vxblock-system-1000/ | title=Dell EMC unveils new VxBlock System 1000 | website=[[ZDNet]] }}</ref> as a perpetual architecture<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/converged-infrastructure/converged-systems.htm#tab0=0&tab1=0 | title=VxBlock Converged Infrastructure Systems }}</ref> and the Dell Technologies converged systems business achieved $6.51B USD of market sales during 2020 according to [[International Data Group]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/converged-infrastructure/converged-systems.htm#tab0|title=0&tab1VxBlock Converged Infrastructure Systems|website=0&pdf-overlay=//www.delltechnologiesdell.com/asset/en-us/products/converged-infrastructure/industry-market/idc-business-value-vxblock-white-paper.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=September 2022}}</ref>

==Products and services==

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[[File:EMC Vblock 300 FX.jpg|thumb|alt=A Vblock 300 FX at CA World|Vblock 300 FX at VCE (company) booth during CA World 2011.]] Vblock systems consist of storage and provisioning from [[EMC Corporation|EMC]], switches and servers from [[Cisco]], and [[VMware]] virtualization software running on the servers. In addition, Vblock system customers' support calls are handled by VCE.

Vblock had two series based on the following compositional elements:<ref name="bare_url_b">http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=553</ref><ref name="lightreading">{{Cite web|url=http://www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=216883|title=MakingRecent ofvideos Cloud&#124; Megapage Test1 of --69 Cloud&#124; DataLight CenterReading}}</ref>

* EMC provides storage and provisioning

** VNX

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==== Customers ====

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 press releaseweb|url=httphttps://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|website=www.prnewswire.com}}</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=httphttps://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/09/15/taking-college-it-out-of-the-hardware-business.aspx|title=Taking College IT Out of the Hardware Business -|website=Campus Technology}}</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>

===Enterprise-level systems===