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What Does Potential VMware, Dell Merger Mean for Healthcare Cloud?

The potential acquisition of Dell by VMware could help Dell embrace healthcare cloud and edge computing as IT infrastructure technology evolves.

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By Elizabeth O'Dowd

- VMware is poised to buy Dell in a reverse merger in response to the growing demand of cloud-based enterprise IT infrastructure. Dell and VMware both have their hands in healthcare IT, so what could this potential merger mean for health IT infrastructure and healthcare cloud?

Dell already owns VMware as part of its 2015 acquisition of EMC. Dell originally gained 80 percent ownership of VMware when it bought EMC for $67 million.

In this reverse merger, VMware would buy its parent company Dell so Dell can be traded publicly without going through a formal listing, according to CNBC. This is one of the biggest tech industry deals in history and the deal will help Dell return to the public market after going private in 2013, the news source added.