EMC’s VCE division wants to take the engineered systems approach it’s honed with its Vblocks into next-generation mobile and cloud applications.

On Monday, it introduced the VCE VxRack System, a hyperconverged platform designed to scale out to thousands of racks of computing and storage capacity. Where Vblocks are designed to run traditional business applications like ERP (enterprise resource planning), VxRack is built for a new era.

The Vblock coverged architecture has been a success among customers looking to run traditional mission-critical enterprise applications, according to EMC. It was the founding product of VCE, which was formed in 2009 as a joint venture among VMware, Cisco Systems and EMC, and it remains VCE’s flagship, the company’s CEO Praveen Akkiraju said on Monday at EMC World, where the VxRack System was announced.

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