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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.

... Big news (that I forgot to mention last week when it actually happened) out of Deutsche Telekom -- Europe's biggest phone company earmarked $27 billion over the next five years for German landline, mobile networks, small cells, and digitized infrastructure to fend off competitors like Vodafone and Telefonica. More information on the plan should be available at next month's investor meeting (I'll keep you posted... unless I forget again.)

... After his time spent at Riverbed and HP, Kash Shaikh joined Ruckus as vice president of marketing.

.... A10 Networks integrated its Thunder Application Deliver Controllers (ADCs) with Cisco ACI.

... The Oracle board of directors grew to 12 directors with the addition of Leon Panetta, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and ex-CIA director.

... Distelli, a SaaS platform, closed on $2.8 million in its first round of venture funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

... IIX joined the OpenDaylight Project — interesting given the connection between the two. You know, because the researcher who found the ODL security hole works for IIX.

... Avi Networks brought on Mark Anderson, formerly vice president of sales at F5 Networks and current president of field operations at Palo Alto Networks, as its newest board member.

... Anuta Networks updated its NCX 4.0 service orchestrator, enhancing support for OpenStack, YANG, and specific NFV use cases. Anuta also added support for a wider range of switches and routers.

... The Ethernet switch market could grow beyond $25 billion in 2019, according to a new forecast from the Dell'Oro Group.

... On Friday, Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics, the company behind R, an open source language for modeling big data. If you think the name "R" is funny, you'll love this: It sprang from another language called S.

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