Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle underneath the western skies… It’s roundup time for the remaining stragglers of this week’s news.

Reuters reports that KKR & Co., Thoma Bravo, and Vista Equity Partners Management are scrapping for $4 billion worth of Dell’s assets. Dell could use the funds after announcing in October that it wants to snag EMC for a cool $67 billion, a deal that would include a substantial amount of debt.

Verizon’s enterprise customers now have a fast lane to the IBM Cloud.

According to a report by IDC, third quarter vendor growth in the server market increased 5 percent year-over-year to $13.4 billion. It was the sixth consecutive quarter of revenue growth. HPE captured the largest market share, followed by, in order, Dell, IBM, and Lenovo.

6WIND is booting up a certification program that allows service providers, vendors, and integrators to test their network functions virtualization (NFV) products and services.

Clouditalia has selected Coriant for the build out of its multiterabit universal switching platform at network sites. The deal is Coriant’s first customer win in Italy.

Cloud security vendor Bat Blue Networks announced this week that it has scored an NFV-related patent.

Monitoring vendor OpsClarity announced $11 million in Series A funding. The round was led by NEA and also includes Pinnacle Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, and Morado Venture Partners.

Affirmed Networks will lend its talents to Canadian service provider Telus’ Internet of Things service offerings.

SD-WAN vendor Aryaka Networks has been selected by Telehouse Europe to provide WAN-related services businesses.

Jordan-based Zain is now using Procera Networks’ analytics products for its mobile services. Zain has been a customer of Procera for three years.

The Linux Foundation is offering an online training course on OpenStack Administration Fundamentals. The online course is a good way to prep for the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam from the OpenStack Foundation.

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