VCE President Chad Sakac has said that while Dell PowerEdge servers will become the cornerstone of VCE hyper-converged solutions, converged solutions like Vblock and Vxblock will continue to use Cisco servers.

Partners are expecting to learn more about Dell's new go-to-market strategy in February, which is the start of the company's fiscal year, as well as when the Dell and EMC channel programs will be combined into a single program.

Solution providers aren't betting that the ‘C' in VCE will be phased out due to the high profitability of the business and multi-year commitments to customers.

"We're doing very well with VCE. The pipeline is strong and we're not backing off in any capacity," said the EMC Platinum partner. "Cisco is committed to it and Chuck's committed to it … Revenues are too strong to want to disrupt it and Vblock is a three-year commitment."