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

Intel Pulls OSIC Funding, Rackspace Cuts 45 Workers — Rackspace calls reports citing the death of OpenStack ‘fake news.’

Huawei Positions Itself as an NFV Systems Integrator —Huawei has created a 3-Dimensional NFV assessment framework.

Amazon Web Services Embraces Container Networking — Currently, networking on AWS occurs at the host level, not at the container level.

Here are the week’s strays and stragglers we roped for you:

Check Point introduced Check Point Infinity, a new security architecture designed for enterprise organizations.

Cisco expanded  its training and certification portfolio.

SevOne and CLAdirect partnered to offer visibility solutions for virtualized environments.

Certified Ubuntu images are now available in the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services, providing developers with more compute options.

Procera Networks partnered with Vodafone Egypt to enhance the subscriber experience for its fixed and mobile subscribers.

FatPipe Networks has integrated its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) platform with the Wind River Titanium Cloud.

Cumulocity partnered with NTT Communications to deliver Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in Japan.

IBM released new capabilities for developers on Bluemix, IBM's cloud platform.

Criterion Networks' Mysterious-Decision release of Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) is now available on the Criterion SDCloud platform.

Network testing provider Ixia is collaborating with the CORD Project to help ensure data center quality and performance.

Unitas Global and Canonical will provide a new fully managed and hosted OpenStack private cloud to enterprise clients around the world.

During Mesosphere's first year, the open source project launched more than 100,000 clusters.

NodeSource released NodeSource N|Solid for Alpine Linux, the newest addition to its Node.js platform.

Telefónica, using Huawei’s Smartcare SOC solution, deployed three dedicated Service Operations Centers (SOC) in Argentina, Chile and Germany.

Broadcom Limited released a new 100G Ethernet multi-host controller product family, called the BCM57454 NetXtreme E-Series.

The Industrial Internet Consortium's time sensitive networking (TSN) Testbed received top ranking in the Testbed Showcase

NTT Communications extended its Multi-Cloud Connect connection to the Oracle Cloud.

Equinix has become an Advanced Technology Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network.

Rancher Labs partnered with Docker to integrate Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) Basic into its Rancher container management platform.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • 5G and Cloud: Have Telcos Bitten Off More Than They Can Chew?
  • Cradlepoint Launches New LTE-Based SD-WAN Capabilities
  • Masergy Designs Hybrid WAN for European Train Service Provider
  • VMware Tightens NSX Integration with Photon
  • Oracle Cloud Business Grows with Moat Acquisition
  • Harman Uses Watson's AI Capabilities for Voice-Controlled Devices
  • Riverbed Acquires Xirrus to 'Supercharge' SD-WAN
  • HyTrust Helps Feds Meet Cloud Security Mandate
  • Observable Networks Detects Changes in AWS Lambda Functions
  • Microsoft to Run Linux Containers on Windows and Azure
  • Big Switch Data Center Fabric Supports vSphere Containers
  • Cloudera Could Raise $242 Million in Upcoming IPO
  • Trump Orders Review of the H-1B Visa Process
  • GTT Launches Managed SD-WAN Service Via VeloCloud
  • Intel Shuts Down its 20-Year-Old Developer Forum
  • IBM Brings Anaconda Open Data Science Platform to its Cognitive Systems
  • Machine Learning and AI Have Roots in Neural Networks
  • Huawei Positions Itself as an NFV Systems Integrator
  • Avaya's Everywhere Data Center Architecture Includes VNFs
  • Verizon's ThingSpace Strives to Eliminate IoT Fragmentation
  • Ignore Next-Generation Data Center Technologies at Your Own Risk