Dell Had Nothing To Do With Planning Of Cloud Services Unit; VMware Took The Lead

Tucci was straightforward about Dell's involvement with the recent creation of the company's 50-50 cloud services joint venture business with VMware.

"I can absolutely guarantee everybody on this call or everybody in the world that Dell had absolutely nothing to do with this transaction," said Tucci. "This was driven more by VMware than anybody else."

Tucci also said Dell believes Virtustream "was a great and good thing to do."