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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.

A critical vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance could be exploited to bypass authentication and take control of vulnerable systems. Carbon Black Cloud Workload is a data center security product from VMware that aims to protect critical servers and workloads hosted on vSphere, the company's cloud-computing virtualization platform.

A critical security vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance would allow privilege escalation and the ability to take over the administrative rights for the solution. The VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload platform is designed to provide cybersecurity defense for virtual servers and workloads that are hosted on the VMware's vSphere platform.

A critical vulnerability recently addressed in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload could be abused to execute code on a vulnerable server, according to a warning from a security researcher who discovered the bug. "A malicious actor with network access to the administrative interface of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance may be able to obtain a valid authentication token, granting access to the administration API of the appliance," VMware notes in an advisory.

VMware has addressed a critical vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance that could allow attackers to bypass authentication after exploiting vulnerable servers. VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload is a Linux data center security software designed to protect workloads running in virtualized environments.