Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) has announced that it is considering spinning off about 81 percent of its equity ownership interest in VMware (NYSE: VMW) in an effort to create value and simplify capital structures.

Pavilion Data Systems has announced VMware vSphere 7 certification and presence on VMware’s Compatibility Guide, the company reported on Tuesday. 

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has teamed up with Red Hat and VMware (NYSE: VMW) to compete for the U.S. Army’s potential $957M contract vehicle for cyber training services in support of the Persistent Cyber Training Environment. The Cyber Training, Readiness, Integration, Delivery and Enterprise Technology contract seeks to support the management and evolution of PCTE, which will allow the military to conduct cyber training, mission rehearsals and exercises.

VMware (NYSE: VMW) has completed its purchase of San Francisco-based Pivotal Software for approximately $2.7B in a push to provide clients with integrated platforms needed to speed up software delivery across cloud, edge and data center environments.

Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO, has said he believes the company's partnerships with multiple cloud providers could support its pursuit of additional contracts in the government market, Fierce Telecom reported Wednesday. "We do expect that through those partnerships that we'll have a thriving government business, both on-premise as we have had as well as in hybrid and cloud offerings," Gelsinger told analysts during a recent earnings call.

Marianne Brown, corporate executive vice president and co-chief operating officer of the global financial solutions segment at Fidelity National Information Services, has joined VMware's (NYSE: VMW) board of directors. She is also a board member at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC).

VMware (NYSE: VMW) has wrapped up its acquisition of cybersecurity firm Carbon Black and will launch a security business unit as a result of the transaction.

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) VMware (NYSE: VMW) have partnered to make the latter’s software and services available on the Oracle cloud infrastructure.

VMware (NYSE: VMW) has satisfied one of the closing conditions of its subsidiary Calistoga Merger Corp.'s cash tender offer to purchase all the outstanding shares of common stock of Carbon Black (Nasdaq: CBLK) for $26 per share.

VMware (NYSE: VMW) has agreed to acquire Pivotal Software (NYSE: PVTL) for approximately $2.7B and cybersecurity firm Carbon Black (Nasdaq: CBLK) for about $2.1B.