Here are the top stories SDxCentral wrangled this week related to SDN, NFV, 5G, IoT, containers, cloud, and more:

HPE Denies It's Partnering With Huawei, Taps Crisis Public Relations — HPE says that Huawei's claim that it is partnering with HPE is not true. This is just the latest public relations problem for Huawei in the U.S.

Ericsson Hired 500 Engineers for 5G — CEO Borje Ekholm’s cost-cutting measures seem to be working. In the first quarter of 2018, the company reined in its losses and improved its gross margin.

Nokia Puts a Physical Box at the Edge to Support Cloud, 5G — The box runs a real-time OPNFV-compatible, OpenStack-distribution built to run in small data centers or at base station locations.

Here are the week's strays and stragglers we roped for you:
NetFoundry and Amazon Web Services (AWS) demonstrated AWS’s Internet of Things (IoT) analytics capabilities over a NetFoundry software-defined private network in a connected factory.

IoT company Telit integrated its IoT platform with Siemens’ cloud-based, open IoT operating system.

Ericsson was selected by Italian operator Wind Tre to virtualize and expand its network to 5G Core.

Cisco added three new features to its SAN offerings, including a new switch, a diagnostics suite, and end-to-end SAN management.

41 new organizations joined the Linux Foundation.

Juniper extended its multicloud platform to enable end-to-end policy and control for any workload on any infrastructure.

Hyperledger, an Linux Foundation open source blockchain group, added 13 new members to its organization. It now has 230 organizations.

Cisco and Orange collaborated to expand Orange's open transit internet network.

Google released a new on-ramp to Google Cloud called Partner Interconnect that offers private connectivity to organizations that don't require the full dedicated circuit.

T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, partnered with Microsoft to offer public cloud services combined with managed services. SAP applications, artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, and IoT.

InfoVista debuted its real-time service assurance platform.

China Mobile and Keysight Technologies built an end-to-end system level simulation with 5G baseband, RF, antenna, and wireless channel modeling.

Red Hat released general availability of its automated, open source turkey platform for software-defined storage (SDS).

F5 debuted its application services for multicloud environments, which will be available May 31.

NTT Communications completed its acquisition of managed service provider Secure-24.

Nokia Bell Labs and NTT Docomo demonstrated mobile broadband applications for 5G, including the delivery of video.

Tencent became a platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation.  The company uses OpenStack to power many of its popular applications, including WeChat.

Machine data company Spunk added AI capabilities to its products, open source software, and cloud-native technologies.

DevOps player Puppet launched several new products to help  IT organizations incorporate automation into their networks. It also added new members to its partner ecosystem including Barracuda, Cisco, Microsoft, and Nutanix.

Software provider Neustar launched an international security council for building cyber defense strategies.

Micro Focus released a new product that accelerates time to value of data security across hybrid IT environments and cloud workloads.

Open source data center company Percona is now partnering with Microsoft and MongoDB.

Software provider ECI and German service provider Exaring partnered with a European hacktivist group to test 200G and redundant 100G alien wavelength connectivity.

Energy management and automation company Schneider Electric launched a data center module for mobile edge applications, Edge Module.

Web acceleration company Edgemesh extended its content delivery network to the Google Cloud.

Bugsnag, application stability management company, migrated to Google Cloud.

Open source security company WhiteSource launched its continual pattern matching engine for open source component detection and association.

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