Here are the top stories SDxCentral wrangled this week related to SDN, NFV, cloud, and virtualization infrastructure:
The Rise & Fall of the VCE Brand Name — VCE had a storied history, but now, Dell has retired the brand.
Cisco’s Intercloud: Stick a Fork in It — Cisco confirmed that it’s shutting down its Intercloud platform.
Vodafone Germany Shares NFV Lessons From the Early Days — Vodafone Germany was hoping that NFV would be its ticket to “leave the box business,” but the technology has a long way to go.
Here are the week’s strays and stragglers we roped for you:
Brocade CEO Lloyd Carney sold 649,309 shares of the firm’s stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $12.40, for a total value of roughly $8 million.
Red Hat released its OpenStack Platform 10, the company’s cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering.
Viptela appointed Russ Harris as its SVP of operations.
Metaswitch announced that more than 20 service providers are using its cloud-based service.
Telia Norway and Huawei announced a commercial narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network in the Nordics and a commercial smart agriculture system worldwide based on the NB-IoT technology.
Google announced its autonomous vehicle project is being spun off as a company called Waymo.
DataCore Software appointed Carrie Reber as vice president of worldwide marketing.
SimpliVity announced that its OmniStack hyperconverged infrastructure platform supports Epic Hyperspace in virtual desktop environments.
2degrees Mobile, a New Zealand-based telecommunications provider, selected Metaswitch’s Clearwater vIMS Core as the foundation to scale fixed and mobile communication services in the cloud.
Equinix has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT).
Marvell appointed Thomas Lagatta as its executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing.
BMC Software announced that Peter Leav has joined as president and CEO.
Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:
- Q&A: Dan Warmenhoven, Former NetApp CEO Turned SDx Guy
- US Cellular Hits 9-Gig Speeds in 5G Trials in Wisconsin
- Oracle SaaS & PaaS Growth Amid a Flat Q2
- Bell Canada Tests AT&T’s Open Source ECOMP Platform
- Nokia to Acquire Deepfield to Help Content Cross the WAN
- IBM Collaborates With BMW to Bring Watson IoT Platform to Cars
- Trump to Silicon Valley Elite: I’m Here To Help You Do Well
- Yahoo Finds an Even Bigger Breach Affecting 1 Billion Accounts
- Docker Spins Off ‘Containerd,’ Its Core Container Runtime
- Jury Says Arista Owes $0 to Cisco in Copyright Case
- Cloud Storage Startup Nasuni Raises $25M
- Ulevitch Promoted to Lead Cisco’s Security Business
- Cloud Foundry Launches Open Service Broker API Project
- Postman Releases Postman Pro to Provide API Monitoring
- Infoblox Intros Alliance Program to Offer Well-Rounded Security
- Enterprises Relying on SOCs to Fight Security Threats
- Symantec Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Zscaler
- Silicon Valley Elite to Meet With Trump on Jobs, Tech Policy
- Fujitsu Operates an SDN/NFV Consulting & Integration Practice
- Huawei Adds Former AT&T Architect Margaret Chiosi
- Gigaspaces Helps VNF Developers Jump Their Business Hurdles
- Vodafone Uses Nokia Gear to Test Cloud RAN
- ITC Judge Finds Arista Infringed 2 More Cisco Patents
- CoreOS Adds Some Security Automation to Kubernetes
- Utilities Could Reap Millions from IoT, Navigant Says
- Red Hat’s Container Platform Lands on Google Cloud
- Cavium Works on Virtual Baseband Units with China Unicom & CORD