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{{Infobox company
| company_name = <small>Virtual Computing Environment coalition</small> <br/> Acadia <br/> VCE
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| foundation = 2011
| headquarters = [[Richardson, Texas|Richardson]], [[Texas]]
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| homepage = {{URL |www.vce.com }}
| key_people = Frank Hauck (President)<br />Praveen Akkiraju ([[CEO]])
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==History==
[[Cisco Systems]], [[EMC Corporation]] and [[VMware]] unveiled a joint partnership in November 2009 to develop [[cloud computing]] platforms called Vblock Infrastructure Packages.<ref>{{Cite
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.<ref name="chief">{{Cite news |title= Cisco, EMC, VMware Channel Chiefs Talk Up Vblock Partner Play |author= Joseph F. Kovar |date= November 3, 2009 |work= CRN |url= http://www.crn.com/news/storage/221600134/cisco-emc-vmware-channel-chiefs-talk-up-vblock-partner-play.htm |accessdate= August 9, 2013 }}</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>
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In May 2013, VCE estimated a $1 billion annual sales rate with more than 1,000 Vblock systems sold.<ref name="bets" />
In November 2012, the company slclaimed VCE was the market share leader for integrated infrastructure systems in an analysis by [[Gartner]]. The report was Gartner's first analysis of the integrated systems, which traditionally tracked server, networking, and external controller-based storage as individual markets. The report claimed that VCE had a 57.4% share among endors of integrated infrastructure systems in the second quarter of 2012 based on revenue.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Market Share Analysis: Data Center Hardware: Integrated Systems, 1Q11-2Q12 |publisher= Gartner |author= Adrian O'Connell |date= November 30, 2012 |url= http://www.vce.com/asset/documents/gartner-market-share-analysis-report.pdf |accessdate= August 9, 2013 }}</ref>
VCE was named one of the “2013 Virtualization 50” by ''[[CRN Magazine]]''.<ref name="crn13">{{Cite news |title= 2013 Virtualization 50 |work= CRN |date= May 24, 2013 |url= http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/virtualization/240155351/2013-virtualization-50.htm?pgno=43 |accessdate= August 9, 2013 }}</ref>
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Vblock 2, intended for high-end datacenters, was designed to support 3,000 to 6,000 virtual machines using Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000v and Multilayer directional switches (MDS), as well as EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage and the VMware vSphere platform.
Vblock 1, intended for the midmarket, was designed for 800 to 3,000 virtual machines and had had a similar configuration to the Vblock 2, but with EMC Clariion storage rather than EMC Symmetrix VMAX.
Vblock 0, the intended low-end configuration, was projected for release in 2010 to support 300 to 800 virtual machines and use a similar configuration, but with EMC Unified Storage.
===Enterprise-level systems===
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