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

HPE No Longer Offers a Native Telco SDN Product — HPE sales staff will offer alternative options to OpenSDN.

Ericsson's 1Q Revenue Plummets 11%, Company Faces More Cuts — The cost reduction program is not turning things around quickly enough.

Making the Big Bucks — Tracking the Salaries of Top Tech CEOs — How much did Chuck Robbins, Meg Whitman, and Randall Stephenson make in 2016?

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

Huawei and Intel signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide high-performance computing products.

Quali released its CloudShell 8.0, which includes second-generation shells and support for Microsoft Azure and OpenStack based cloud platforms.

Red Hat introduced Red Hat 3scale API Management as a containerized, on-premises offering for API lifecycle management.

Database load balancing software provider ScaleArc updated its product for MySQL software.

Hedvig is expanding its CloudScale Partner Program where partners will now have the option to develop and sell their own branded solutions powered by Hedvig software.

IOTech joined the Linux Foundation’s EdgeX Foundry open source project as a founding member.

Criterion Networks is providing enterprises with on-demand software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) environments.

Discovery Communications picked Equinix to implement an Interconnection Oriented Architecture that will enable the company to use a cloud-based model.

Deutsche Telekom joined the Industrial Data Space Association (IDSA) to bring the organization security expertise.

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