Converged Infrastructure by VCE (Virtual Computing Environment) Company

Converged Infrastructure by VCE (Virtual Computing Environment) Company

Virtual Computing Environment Company, is a privately held American computer integration company formed in 2010 by EMC Corporation, Cisco Systems with additional investments from VMware and Intel Corporation. In just 4 years VCE has grown to be a billion dollar company with annual revenues exceeding $1.8 billion. VCE builds and assembles Vblock Systems using EMC storage, Cisco UCS Servers and networking, and VMware virtualization technology. It bundles and tests these systems before shipping them to customers. This VBlock system is referred to as a Converged Infrastructure, Engineered Systems or by Gartner as Intergrated System. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Intergrated Systems named VCE as the Leader in the 2014 Gartner Report.The integrated system market is growing at 50% or more per year, creating an unusual mix of major vendors and startups to consider. 

 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Intergrated Systems, June 2014

VCE has dispelled many of the earlier market doubts. The vendor's momentum is due, in large part, to growing adoption in large global organizations and among large service providers.

VBLOCK System Platforms

Vblock 100 

 Vblock™ System 100 provides the next evolution of IT—built on the world’s most advanced converged infrastructure, and right-sized to fit your needs. The result is exceptional IT performance, delivered efficiently and at an unprecedented value, so you can respond to fleeting business opportunities, improve services, and maintain high application and data availability. The Series consists of;

• C-Series Rackmount servers
• EMC VNXe storage

VBlock 200

Vblock™ System 200 Offers mid-sized organizations a highly efficient virtualized infrastructure to run their entire business. Tap the impressive power and capacity of the Vblock System 200 in a broad range of configurations, with plenty of room for expansion. Supports a variety of applications—from core IT services to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

Vblock System 240 makes use of;

• Cisco UCS rack servers and 
• EMC VNX5200 unified storage systems with MCx multicore optimization to ensure exceptional performance across a range of applications. 

Vblock System 240 addresses the high-performance, low-latency requirements of virtualized environments. In addition, deduplication and compression reduce the space and cost requirements for effective data protection.

VBlock 300

Vblock™ System 300 Series Enables the substantial scale needed for large virtualization and cloud implementations. Vblock System 300 is built to support mission-critical enterprise applications with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to run vast mixed workloads, and essential cloud services while ensuring operations and management simplicity. The system can run VDI environments, Microsoft Exchange 2010, Oracle, SAP, and many other enterprise applications and vertical-specific solutions.

The Series makes use of;

• Cisxo B-Series Blade Servers
• EMC VNX Storage

VBlock 500

Vblock™ System 500 Series VCE Vscale Architecture delivers ultimate agility, simplicity, assurance of adapting to the varying applications, scale, and flexibility needs for customers’ diverse operational models. At the core of the architecture are VCE Vblock Systems for your mission-critical or well-defined workloads. With its next-generation; 

• Cisco Unified Computing System, ACI-ready network, and 
• EMC XtremIO storage, the Vblock System 500 series offers the industry’s first all-flash-based converged infrastructure. 

The factory-integrated and validated systems in the Vblock System 500 series deliver scale-out performance at ultralow latency. This helps consolidate data center-class applications, performance-centric databases, and emerging 3rd platform applications such as cloud, mobile, and social media

VBlock 700

Vblock™ System 700 Series VCE Vscale Architecture delivers ultimate agility, simplicity, assurance of adapting to the varying applications, scale, and flexibility needs for customers’ diverse operational models. At the core of the architecture are VCE Vblock Systems for your mission-critical or well-defined workloads. The Vblock System 700 series is comprised of enterprise- and service provider-class systems designed to help organizations benefit from virtualized and cloud computing faster and easier. The systems are designed for mission-critical application environments, offering the highest level of data and application availability.  Powered by the next-generation;

• Cisco Unified Computing System, ACI-ready networking, and 
• EMC VMAX3 storage, the system offers 3x the performance and 2x the storage bandwidth