Happy Friday, everyone! Miss the news? Don’t worry, the SDxCentral weekly news roundup is here to deliver the news bits surrounding software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and more. Get ready, ‘cuz it’s coming atcha:

In the wake of a security vulnerability within its SDN controller, APIC, Cisco issued a software fix this week when the oversight allowed attackers to enter the system as root users with control over root commands. Impacted products include APICs that run on versions before 1.1(1j), 1.0(3o), and 1.0(4o), as well as ACI mode Nexus 9000 switches running software versions prior to the 11.1(1j) and 11.0(4o) release.

Guavus welcomed Tim Dyer as its newest senior vice president of worldwide sales. Dyer held a similar role at his last company, ConteXtream.

Puppet Labs integrated its Puppet Enterprise with Cisco's Open NX-OS. Available now is a Puppet NX-OS agent as well as a Cisco Puppet module.

Ciena completed the acquisition of Cyan.

Coriant was selected by Bhutan Telecom for the country's DWDM infrastructure network.

SD-WAN company Aryaka closed the first half of this year on a high note. Record bookings, revenues, gross margins, and new customer acquisitions left the privately held company with — you guessed it — a record start to 2015.

Fujitsu became the newest gold member of the OpenStack Foundation.

Ixia reported record second-quarter earnings, with revenues climbing to $131.6 million from $121 million during 2015's first quarter.

Extreme Networks reported fourth-quarter revenues of $150 million compared with $122 million for the same quarter last year. Extreme reported a non-GAAP profit of 10 cents per diluted share.

HP announced a new hyperconverged product that it claims costs almost half as much as competitors' options. The HP ConvergedSystem 250-HC Store Virtual features heightened VMware integration, has hybrid-cloud architecture capabilities, and introduces new delivery services and channel programs.

IBM is opening its latest Bluemix Garage, in Toronto. The Garages are sites where developers can work on creating applications for IBM Cloud.

In a global service-provider study, Infonetics IHS says network operators are making the move to SDN. Of those polled, 82 percent said they have either already implemented SDN in their systems, are doing so currently, or are planning to do take a closer look at SDN this year.

Compuverde began offering a free download of its vNAS software-defined storage product.

Mirantis integrated its OpenStack distribution with Tectonic, CoreOS’ commercial platform for Kubernetes 1.0.

Cirba announced that its network automation and control software now works on NetApp's OnCommand® Insight

Nokia sold off its mapping division, HERE, in a $3.1 billion deal to BMW, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz. The deal will close early next year, which will help Nokia tidy up for the pending acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.

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