Dell (NYSE: DELL) cloud unit Boomi announced yesterday tells a familiar story for the computer maker–leaner is better. Let’s take a look at a recent analysis of private equity acquisition of carve-outs to see whether that’s an outlook shared by other conglomerates. Dell Technologies Inc. components inside a supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego The Boomi transaction comes weeks after Dell announced plans to spin off its 81 percent stake in VMware to current shareholders, and may have had its buyside roots in a previous deal. Carve-out specialist Francisco Partners would’ve been well acquainted with Dell since at least 2016, when it acquired Dell’s software group for $2.4 billion. That divestiture helped finance the company’s $67 billion acquisition of