W. Curtis Preston interviews Trey Layton, Chief Technology Officer for VCE, at VMWorld 2012 in Barcelona. They talk about how VCE stands for Virtual Computing Environment, but could also be Cisco, VMWare and EMC, their primary partners (Cisco and EMC) and investors (VMWare and Intel). They talk about VCE’s vBlock, a fully converged mission critical computing system. The system starts with an initial 4 blades and can start with a relatively small storage array and grow from there. It is designed to handle hundreds to tens of thousands of VMs, the number and density depending on the types of applications and the workloads being run. They also talk about vBlock, data protection, designed around the architecture and containing EMC’s Avamar, Data Domain, vPlex (for active-active data centers) and EMC’s recover point technology for replication between arrays.

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• W. Curtis Preston
• Trey Layton
• VCE
• VMWorld
• Cisco
• VMWare
• EMC
• Intel
• vBlock
• Avamar
• Data Domain
• vPlex