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

Sources: Microsoft Tried To Buy Docker for $4B — Rumors ran rampant at DockerCon.

Former Cisco Executives Form Startup To Deliver Cloud-based IoT — The startup Mist uses WiFi technology for IoT.

Juniper Unveils ‘More Than SD-WAN’ — The Cloud-Enabled Branch does more than just SD-WAN.

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

The CTO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) Labs, Martin Fink, is retiring at the end of 2016. HPE Labs will be moved into HPE’s enterprise group under Antonio Neri.

Red Hat and Eurotech together launched a new, open source Eclipse Foundation project to manage IoT edge devices.

Masergy announced wide-area networking (WAN) encryption, a service that protects data end-to-end while in transit for software-defined WAN connectivity between applications and users.

InterCloud Systems received over $4 million in purchase orders since the beginning of 2016 for software-defined networking (SDN) and virtual network function (VNF) validation services for an undisclosed networking company.

ABI Research forecast that security policy orchestration and automation will hit $1 billion in global revenues by 2020.

Ericsson’s 5G Radio Prototypes demonstrated vehicular connectivity required to address smart vehicles and intelligent transport applications.

Midokura’s Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) network virtualization technology was certified to work with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.

Viavi Solutions and Brocade created a joint system that enables mobile operators to capture and analyze subscriber data to resolve quality of experience (QoE) issues.

Lenovo launched a drive to develop integrated systems for the telecommunications industry that will help clients build out next-generation data centers using open source technologies.

ZeroStack opened its zApp Store, a source of application templates for users of ZeroStack’s Z-Block Cloud Appliance.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week: