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'''VCE''' is a joint venture between [[Cisco]] and the [[EMC Corporation]] with additional investments from [[VMware]] and [[Intel Corporation]]. VCE was created by combining [[Acadia (technical partnership)]] and the [[Virtual Computing Environment coalition]] into a single entity in January 2011.
<ref>http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/01/21/vce-coalition-combines-with-acadia-simplifies-name-to-vce/</ref>
<ref>http://www.crunchbase.com/company/vce</ref>
 
==Management==
The chairman of VCE is [[Michael Capellas]] who also servers as Board member for [[Cisco]]. In July 2012, Cisco executive Praveen Akkiraju was appointed CEO of VCE.
<ref>http://www.vce.com/media/news/2012/2012-07-19-praveen-akkiraju-vce-ceo.htm</ref>
<ref>http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/01/21/vce-coalition-combines-with-acadia-simplifies-name-to-vce/</ref>
<ref>http://www.crunchbase.com/company/vce</ref>
 
==Products==
VCE manufactures [[converged infrastructure]] called [[Vblock]]™ Systems that combine [[VMware vSphere]] running on [[Cisco Unified Computing System]] connected with [[Cisco Nexus switches]], attached to [[EMC Corporation]] storage. Despite the name, the storage can be either Block or File based.
 
==Services==