Here’s a roundup of news related to software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and the rest of the SDxCentral universe:

The OpenDaylight Project is offering eight internships for students seeking real-world development experience as the OpenDaylight community prepares for its fourth and fifth software releases in 2016.

AT&T announced it will use Canonical's Ubuntu OS as part of its push to build a cloud out of open networking pieces.

Microsoft Azure cut prices on certain types of virtual machines.

Dialogic introduced a software-based load balancer that can handle balancing requests from multiple application servers or app server clusters.

Australia-based Megaport’s US subsidiary will become the exclusive cloud interconnection partner for the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, which will in turn provide its Internet Exchange “peering” service in key Megaport-enabled markets.

FireEye announced a partnership with Parsons, a 70-year-old firm with roots in engineering and construction.

Pivotal acquired Slice of Lime, a user interface developer.

Red Hat announced general availability of Ansible 2.0.

The “N” and “O” releases of OpenStack could be named Newton and Olimpic, based on preliminary voting. They would follow Mitaka, which is due out in April.