Here are the top stories SDxCentral wrangled this week related to SDN, NFV, cloud, and virtualization infrastructure:

OpenStack Mitaka: Telco NFV, ‘Intent,’ & Neutron - OpenStack released its latest code Mitaka, and SDxCentral talked about it with some OpenStack Foundation execs.

As Promised, Nokia Begins the Layoff Process - 1,200 jobs in Finland will be the first to go.

Nutanix IPO Is Still a Go - From SEC filings, it appears hyperconverged infrastructure provider Nutanix is moving forward with its planned IPO.

Brocade’s $1.2B Ruckus Wireless Deal Could Have a 5G Angle - Brocade says the acquisition will strengthen its presence in the service provider space and help it pursue opportunities in 5G.

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

Google and Rackspace announced they're designing new servers based on the IBM Power9 architecture.

OpenStack vendor Mirantis announced Volkswagen Group as a customer.

Juniper Networks completed its acquisition of BTI Systems to advance its
data center interconnection (DCI) strategy.

Equinix announced the Equinix Data Hub, consisting of preconfigured colocation and power combined with cloud-integrated data storage, to enable enterprises to develop large data repositories and dispense, consume and process the data at the edge.

Veriflow, a network breach and outage prevention software company, launched with $2.9 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense.

SUSE hired Thomas Di Giacomo as chief technology officer.

A10 Networks introduced six new Thunder application delivery controller (ADC) appliances.

Google folks can now say they wrote the book on data center reliability, literally. Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems was published this week by O'Reilly, revealing details about (wait for it) how Google runs its production systems.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week: