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{{Infobox company|

| company_name = VCE CorporationVCE

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| company_type = Private

| foundation = 2011

| headquarters = [[Richardson, [[Texas|Richardson]], [[United StatesTexas]]

| industry = [[Computer data storage]]

| homepage = {{URL |www.vce.com }}

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'''VCE Corporation''', the Virtual Computing Environment Company, is an American computer integration company.

It was founded (originally named '''Acacdia''') as a joint venture between [[Cisco Systems]] and [[EMC Corporation]] with additional investments from [[VMware]] and [[Intel Corporation]].

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[[Cisco Systems]], [[EMC Corporation]] and [[VMware]] unveiled a joint partnership in November 2009 to develop [[cloud computing]] platforms called Vblock Infrastructure Packages. The partnership was originally called the VMware-Cisco-EMC alliance, though the name was later shortened to VCE, an acronym for the “Virtual Computing Environment coalition”.<ref>http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/storage/240008782/a-most-interesting-it-experiment-the-history-so-far-of-vce.htm%3Fpgno=6</ref>

At the same event, Cisco and EMC introduced a joint venture named Acadia.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Cisco, EMC Form Acadia Joint Venture for Data Centers (Update3) |author= Rochelle Garner |date= November 3, 2009 |work= Bloomberg news |url= http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=azxgvBN9ckao&pos=7 |accessdate= August 9, 2013 }}</ref> The goal of Acadia, originally set up as a separate legal entity, was to ensure that Vblock Infrastructure Packages were built in a standardized and repeatable fashion for customer data centers. Acadia was intended to deliver Vblock architecture.<ref>http://www.crn.com/news/storage/221600134/cisco-emc-vmware-channel-chiefs-talk-up-vblock-partner-play.htm</ref>

VCE was created by combining Acadia and the Virtual Computing Environment coalition into a single entity in January 2011, called VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company.<ref>{{Cite web |title= VCE Coalition Combines with Acadia, Simplifies Name to VCE |work= The VAR Guy |date= January 21, 2011 |url= http://thevarguy.com/virtualization-applications-and-technologies/vce-coalition-combines-acadia-simplifies-name-vce |accessdate= August 9, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= VCE Coalition and Acadia Combined and Renamed VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company |work= Press release |date= January 20, 2011 |publisher= VCE |url= http://www.vce.com/about/media/news?id=tcm:20-468 |accessdate= August 9, 2013 }}</ref>

From 2011-2013, the chairman of VCE was [[Michael Capellas]], who also was a board member of Cisco.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703322204575226973507577344.html |title=Capellas to Run Cisco, EMC Ventures |author=Don Clark |date=May 5, 2010 |work=WSJ.com |publisher=Dow Jones & Co. |accessdate= August 19, 2010 }}</ref>