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

Nuage Birthed its SD-WAN in the Data Center — You know Nuage Networks for its network virtualization, but the company has also dabbled in the software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN).

Unraveling the Complicated IoT Connectivity Puzzle — The Internet of Things (IoT) is full of funny new words and acronyms. Here's our guide to some of the latest.

OPNFV Defends Its Place in the World as NFV Integrator — With so many other open source projects out there, is OPNFV becoming irrelevant? Heather Kirksey, the group's director, doesn't think so.

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

Netia extended its partnership with Netcracker for support and maintenance services.

Huawei is setting up its biggest Global Service Centre (GSC) in Bangalore at an investment of Rs 136 crore.

Ericsson has been selected by the State Infocommunication Foundation (RIKS) in Estonia to lead the deployment and operation of a hybrid cloud environment.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF's) Community Cluster is now housed at the Supernap Switch facility in Las Vegas. The Community Cluster is for open source projects advancing cloud native computing. CNCF also added seven partners.

Quali, a cloud sandbox software platform for DevOps automation, integrated Cypherpath's Virtual Container Platform (VCP) with the Quali CloudShell product.

Shippable has released the next generation of its continuous deployment platform.

SimpliVity announced new solutions and enhancements to its transformational data center technologies.

Taiwan Mobile selected the Cisco Jasper Control Center to help its customers unlock new revenue streams.

Netrounds has joined Ciena's Blue Orbit SDN and NFV Ecosystem.

Data center provider QTS Realty Trust began offering a fully managed OpenStack Cloud based on Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack.

Dave Donatelli, the executive who has led Oracle’s hardware is now leading the company’s cloud and industry sales strategy teams.

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