VMware has a couple noteworthy developments today, starting with the possibility we may see an iOS offering in the near future. The company recently unveiled a mobile virtualization platform for Android aimed to create separate environments for employees’ personal and work related data, and it may just hit the iPhone near you.

Bloomberg reports that CEO Paul Maritz attended a Tokyo briefing today, and said that VMware has plans to begin product trials for its Android offering this year. Afterwards Maritz noted a clear interest in an iOS offering, as quoted below:

“”Android is our first, something that hasn’t been done before, so we will try it out in that environment and go from there,” Maritz said. It would be “great if we could have” an offering for iOS, he said.”

VMware is pushing, just like everyone in the tech industry, to gain a share of the mobile market. Nonetheless, the company is turning its focus to others areas as well.

These efforts are what resulted the second major VMware update this morning – an announcement that Softbank Telecom is joining the VMware vCloud Datacenter Services Program. This will allow the Japanese telecommunications operator’s customers to move workloads between their private cloud to Softbank’s public cloud. The Japanese company brings the total number of service providers who joined to vCloud Datacenter Services Program to 7, which also includes Verizon.

VMware senior VP and general manager Andrew Dutton says “[Softbank Telecom] is our first VMware vCloud Datacenter Services Program partner in Japan. Being one of the fastest-growing service providers in this market positions the company extremely well to deliver VMware vCloud Datacenter Services.”

The virtualization giant is going mobile and gaining international partners, but VMware is also pushing the healthcare front. The company earlier reported the accelerating adoption of its virtualization offerings in the healthcare industry, and announced less than 24 hours ago Spectrum Health just joined the club. The non-profit West Michigan healthcare provider partnered up with a Premier VMware Solution Provider, Data Strategy, to virtualize its IT infrastructure and applications using VMware ThinApp.