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An industry veteran, Raghuram is a strategic business leader who currently holds the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Products and Cloud Services at VMware. "I am thrilled to have Raghu step into the role of CEO at VMware. Throughout his career, he has led with integrity and conviction, playing an instrumental role in the success of VMware," commented Michael Dell, chairman of the VMware Board of Directors.

VMware has patched another critical vulnerability reported by Positive Technologies, a Russian cybersecurity firm that was sanctioned recently by the United States. Positive Technologies is one of the several Russian tech firms sanctioned in April by the U.S. for allegedly supporting Kremlin intelligence agencies.

VMware has released security updates to address a critical severity vulnerability in vRealize Business for Cloud that enables unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute malicious code on vulnerable servers. vRealize Business for Cloud is an automated cloud business management solution designed to provide IT teams with cloud planning, budgeting, and cost analysis tools.

That's why VMware is announcing VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN. It is a platform that enables CSPs to virtualize radio access network functions and implement an open RAN architecture. "With Telco Cloud Platform RAN, we accelerate the disaggregation of the proprietary RAN and enable CSPs to modernize their RAN so they can monetize the 5G services they deliver across their network."

To address this shift, VMware is announcing VMware Anywhere Workspace, a solution designed to help companies deliver better and more secure experiences to their employees no matter where they are in the world. VMware Anywhere Workspace empowers today's anywhere workforce by removing the friction that can exist between IT systems and employees.

Hot off its divestment from parent company Dell, VMware is announcing a new remote work solution called VMware Anywhere Workspace, a zero-trust, cloud native platform that the company said is designed to eliminate friction between IT and remote employees, all while improving security and reducing overhead. "Remote work is here to stay, and businesses are transforming into anywhere organizations with a distributed work model," said Shankar Iyer, SVP and GM of end user computing at VMware. VMware sees a solution in Anywhere Workspaces, which Iyer said is designed to solve three problems: Managing remote and hybrid-remote employees, improving edge security and automating workspaces.

Vapor IO and VMware announced the Open Grid Alliance, an industry alliance that will define and accelerate the Open Grid, an evolutionary rearchitecting of the internet. "The internet was built from the core out. Now we need to rebuild it from the edge in," said Cole Crawford, founder and CEO of edge infrastructure company Vapor IO. "The alliance will accelerate a decades-long journey of innovation at all levels of the stack, from fiber optics to workload automation. We want to align thought leaders, technologies and investments to bring forth applications that simply cannot be delivered on the internet we have today."

The VMware Special Committee of independent directors and Dell Technologies have agreed to terms in which VMware will be spun-off from Dell Technologies. Dell Technologies stockholders will receive a pro-rata distribution of VMware shares held by Dell Technologies, and Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners will own direct interests in VMware.

Entrust has announced its HyTrust CloudControl solution - now an Entrust business - now supports VMware Cloud Foundation, enabling unified security and compliance controls across the platform, lowering operational overhead and facilitating workload agility. As the hybrid cloud platform for managing virtual machines and orchestrating containers, VMware Cloud Foundation provides a single architecture for consistent, secure infrastructure and operations across private and public clouds.

The new solution will help increase visibility, enable compliance and enhance security for containerized applications from build to production in public cloud and on-premises environments. The solution provides continuous cloud-native security and compliance to better secure applications and data wherever they live.