Vblock Insights

What is Vblock?

Vblock was a converged infrastructure platform developed by VCE (Virtual Computing Environment), a joint venture between VMware, Cisco, and EMC. It integrated compute (Cisco UCS), networking (Cisco), storage (EMC), and virtualization (VMware) into a single, pre-configured, and pre-tested system. Vblocks were designed to simplify IT infrastructure deployment and management, accelerate application deployment, and reduce operational costs. They were commonly used in enterprise data centers to support a variety of workloads, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), databases, and business applications. While VCE was later acquired by EMC (which was then acquired by Dell), the Vblock brand has been discontinued.

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What other technologies are related to Vblock?

Vblock Competitor Technologies

VxRail

VxRail is a hyperconverged infrastructure appliance similar to Vblock, offering compute, storage, and networking resources in a single, integrated system. Thus, it competes directly with Vblock.

mentioned alongside Vblock in 2% (60) of relevant job posts

Azure

Microsoft Azure is a public cloud platform, and it offers services that are an alternative to on-premise infrastructure solutions like Vblock. Therefore, it is a direct competitor.

mentioned alongside Vblock in 0% (54) of relevant job posts

AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a public cloud platform that offers a wide range of services, including compute, storage, and networking. It is an alternative to on-premise infrastructure solutions like Vblock and competes directly for workloads.

mentioned alongside Vblock in 0% (55) of relevant job posts

Vblock Complementary Technologies

VMware

VMware's virtualization technologies are a core component of Vblock infrastructure. VMware provides the hypervisor layer on which virtual machines run, making it strongly complementary.

mentioned alongside Vblock in 0% (123) of relevant job posts