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

The Rise & Fall of the VCE Brand Name — VCE had a storied history, but now, Dell has retired the brand.

Cisco's Intercloud: Stick a Fork in It — Cisco confirmed that it’s shutting down its Intercloud platform.

Vodafone Germany Shares NFV Lessons From the Early Days  — Vodafone Germany was hoping that NFV would be its ticket to “leave the box business,” but the technology has a long way to go.

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

Brocade CEO Lloyd Carney sold 649,309 shares of the firm’s stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $12.40, for a total value of roughly $8 million.

Red Hat released its OpenStack Platform 10, the company’s cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering.

Viptela appointed Russ Harris as its SVP of operations.

Metaswitch announced that more than 20 service providers are using its cloud-based service.

Telia Norway and Huawei announced a commercial narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network in the Nordics and a commercial smart agriculture system worldwide based on the NB-IoT technology.

Google announced its autonomous vehicle project is being spun off as a company called Waymo.

DataCore Software appointed Carrie Reber as vice president of worldwide marketing.

SimpliVity announced that its OmniStack hyperconverged infrastructure platform supports Epic Hyperspace in virtual desktop environments.

2degrees Mobile, a New Zealand-based telecommunications provider, selected Metaswitch’s Clearwater vIMS Core as the foundation to scale fixed and mobile communication services in the cloud.

Equinix has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT).

Marvell appointed Thomas Lagatta as its executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing.

BMC Software announced that Peter Leav has joined as president and CEO.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week: