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Happy Friday, everyone! Here’s SDxCentral’s gathering of the week’s news bits around software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and related topics.

... Facebook introduced 6-pack, a modular switch based on open hardware. Think of it as the big brother to the Wedge top-of-rack switch, running on the same home-grown FBOSS operating system.

... Brocade announced what it says is the first switch for IP storage. It's a combination of the VCS Ethernet Fabric and an EMC Connectrix switch.

... Ixia launched a virtualized version of its BreakingPoint security product, hoping to entice enterprises into using what's traditionally been a service provider product.

... Red Hat and NEC teamed up to develop NFV features in OpenStack, providing carrier-grade NFV components alongside Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. The collaboration aims to give communication service providers the ability to modernize infrastructure and offerings.

... VeloCloud Networks extended its software-defined WAN reach by making itself interoperable with security platforms from Zscaler and Websense.

... The folks at Docker Inc. released Docker 1.5, promising that they have "smashed many long-standing, annoying bugs and merged a few awesome features" that users should get excited about.

... Illumio named Denis Maynard as its new senior VP of sales. Prior to his appointment, Maynard was at Ruckus Wireless, Harmonic, QLogic, and Cisco.

... StackIQ, a company focused on creating warehouse-grade automation platform for large-scale server infrastructure, has made its StackIQ Boss 5 immediately available.

... The OpenDaylight Project welcomed more members: CA Technologies, Megaport, and Spirent — and IIX, which had already announced its membership last week.

... vArmour welcomed Marc Woolward as its new CTO of EMEA. He was previously CTO of networking and technology at Goldman Sachs.

... HP made moves to acquire data security provider, Voltage Security.

... Radisys and ASOCS are collaborating to offer mobile operators with NFV compatible virtual base station for localized Cloud RAN deployments.

... Red Hat announced the general availability of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5. It will integrate and share common services with OpenStack and OpenStack Neutron.

... Adara named Dr. Qiaobing Xie, formerly of Motorola, as its new CTO.

... The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) appointed Saurav Das as principal system architect, as well as created a new project to build on the OF-Config protocol to support Open vSwitch. ONF will work with the Czech Education and Scientific NETwork (CESNET) to provide support to OF-Config.

... Big Switch Networks launched its Big Partner Program, offering incentives, training, enablement programs, and pre-configured state kits to manage proof-of-concept SDN engagements.

... SD-WAN provider Talari Networks released Talari APN 4.2. It includes the ability to alter network configuration and application policies from a single location without any interruption to network traffic.

... Cloud Foundry Foundation made Sam Ramji its new CEO.

... Accedian Networks announced T-Mobile Poland has deployed its V-NID Performance Platform.

... The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) launched a new project, FlexEthernet, aiming to let carriers use available bandwidth more efficiently.

... Logentries added a new Logging Container built for Docker 1.5.

... NTT Innovation Institute announced its limited beta release of Elastic Service Infrastructure (ESI).

... SingleHop, a provider of on-demand hosted private clouds and managed hosting, launched Shield Plus Advanced Security, a suite of security tools layered on top of its Shield Core Security foundation.

... Nokia and Coriant announced they're extending the concept of self-organizing networks (SON) to mobile backhaul.

... Level 3 added DDoS mitigation to its portfolio of managed security products.

... Masergy announced availability of Cloud Router, a managed router supporting speeds up to 100 Mb/s.

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