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==History==

[[Cisco Systems]], [[EMC Corporation]] and [[VMware]] (ana partially-owned EMC subsidiary) unveiled a joint partnership in November 2009 to develop [[cloud computing]] platforms called Vblock Infrastructure Packages.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Cisco and EMC, Together with VMware, form Coalition to Accelerate Pervasive Data Center Virtualization and Private Cloud Infrastructures |work= Press release |date= November 3, 2009 |publisher= Cisco Systems |url= http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/corp_110309.html |accessdate= August 9, 2013 }}</ref>

The partnership was originally called the VMware-Cisco-EMC alliance, though the name was later shortened to VCE, 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>

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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>

In May 2013, VCE estimated a $1 billion annual sales rate with more than 1,000 Vblock systems sold.<ref name="bets" />

However, in US [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] filings, EMC accounted for a cumulative loss of over $430 million by September 2012, and Cisco a loss of $457 million by early 2013, since revenues are recorded to the owning companies, not VCE itself.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Cisco, EMC tout VCE market share, but report losses |author= Larry Dignan |work= Between the Lines |publisher= ZDNet |date= ebruary 21, 2013 |url= http://www.zdnet.com/cisco-emc-tout-vce-market-share-but-report-losses-7000011627/ |accessdate= August 11, 2013 }}</ref>

EMC reported an investment of $667.2 million in cash and $13.2 million in stock-based compensation to VCE, for a stake of about 58%.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Quarterly Report for period ended September 30, 2012 |date= November 2, 2012 |work= Form 10-Q |publisher= SEC |author= EMC Corporation |url= http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/790070/000079007012000154/emc-2012930x10q.htm }}</ref>

==Products and services==

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===Enterprise-level systems===

The Vblock System 700 was unveiled at EMC World 2012, as the most expensive Vblock System, supporting applications running over thousands of virtual machines. The Vblock System 700 introduced the inclusion of EMC data protection to give Vblock Systems backup, recovery, replication, business continuity and data mobility for virtualized environments. Applications include EMC Avamar, EMC Data Domain, and EMC RecoverPoint. The Vblock System 700 also included [[VPLEX|EMC VPLEX]] workload mobility and business continuity software, as well as support for new features in EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager, improved VMware integration, and centralized monitoring of multiple Vblock Systems.<ref>http://www.crn.com/news/storage/240000838/vce-intros-new-higher-end-vblock-integrates-emc-data-protection.htm</ref>

In February 2013, VCE announced the Vblock 300 and Vblock 700 with increased performance and data throughput, with upgrades to their server and storage components.<ref name="hana" />