Here are the top stories SDxCentral wrangled this week related to SDN, NFV, 5G, IoT, cloud, and more:

Juniper Networks Snatches its New CTO Bikash Koley from Google — Juniper’s former CTO was the founder of the company.

AWS-VMware Rumor: Enterprise Data Center Software in the Works? — The two former rivals first partnered last year.

AT&T Touts MEC as a Tool to Reduce Latency, Boost Performance — The company said it is adding intelligence to its towers, central offices, and small cells that are at the “edge” of the cloud.

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In a domino effect, Extreme Networks' purchase of some Brocade assets has been stalled due to the Security and Exchange Commission's review of Broadcom's purchase of other Brocade assets.

Arista Networks suffered a loss in its technology dispute with Cisco when the International Trade Commission refused to set aside an order blocking importation of some of Arista's network switches, reported Reuters in regard to the ongoing saga.

Oracle is hiring 1,000 employees in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as it expands its cloud computing services in the region, reported Bloomberg.

Silver Peak joined MEF to help with the standards group's work on software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN).

Utopia published a fun map showing the top tech companies in each state of the U.S.

Deutsche Telekom joined the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) as a partner.

Adlink developed a new data center compute node based on the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors. This is the company's first product based on the Open Compute Project (OCP)-accepted OpenSled specification.

Genband collaborated with Red Hat to bring network functions virtualization (NFV) products to service providers to offer operational efficiencies from the telco cloud.

Genband also added a Converged Intelligent Messaging (CIM) product to its NFV portfolio to help service providers expand their fixed and mobile messaging offerings.

Security vendor OT-Morpho and Telefónica partnered to address the Internet of Things (IoT) market with OT-Morpho’s Subscription Manager.

The Italian mobile operator TIM said later this year it will start to update the mobile sites of its network in the Republic of San Marino with 4.5G as well as some features of 5G.

Criterion Network Labs released cloud-based test services for NFV product certification and validation.

Insight Engines raised $15.8 million in Series A to make it easier to query big data.

BrainChip, a developer of software and hardware for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, released its new software BrainChip Studio.

The cybersecurity firm RSA unveiled the next release of its RSA NetWitness Suite to increase productivity for security analysts and to accelerate threat detection and response.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • Does AWS Plan to Battle Google Using Kubernetes?
  • ADVA Optical Shares Slide on Performance Warning
  • IoT Startup Particle Attracts $20M Series B from Qualcomm, Spark Capital
  • Cisco Security Report: 34% of Service Providers Lost Revenue from Attacks
  • Verizon Looks at Phased Software Approach for Optical Networking
  • SoftNAS SD-Storage Improves Cloud Object Storage Speed
  • MEF Embarks on Standardization of SD-WAN
  • Linux's EdgeX IoT Group Adds Members, Forms Governing Team
  • Datrium Goes Outside VMware Zone to Run Multiple Cloud Environments
  • Nuage Wins its Ninth SD-WAN Deal with a Service Provider — Telus
  • Kentik Scores KDDI Deal, Extends Monitoring Platform to Japan
  • IBM Opens 4 Cloud Data Centers, Reports Declining Revenue
  • OCI Releases Container Runtime, Image Format Specs
  • Oracle Cloud 'Identical' in Data Centers and the Public Cloud, VP Says
  • Ixia Brings in ProtectWise to Strengthen Cloud Visibility Product
  • Rackspace Partners with Google Cloud, Pivotal Cloud Foundry
  • Awake Security Pops Out of Stealth Mode with $30M, Automation Focus
  • Ericsson Continues Downward Spiral in 2Q, More Restructuring Ahead
  • Security Startup Corelight Raises $9.2M for Enterprise Network Visibility
  • Want to Transfer Data to Google Cloud? Send it by Mail
  • Comcast Expands machineQ IoT Network to 12 Markets
  • Mushroom Networks Offers Up VNF Services to its Partners
  • Market Maturation Keeping Container Vendors on Their Toes
  • Bullish on Blockchain: Microsoft Offers Blockchain-as-a-Service
  • Private Equity Firm Buys Sandvine for $444M, Merges with Procera
  • Senet Retools Business Plan to Focus on the IoT Back Office
  • Container Security is a Multifaceted Task as Enterprise Use Grows
  • Microsoft AI Lab Aims to Give Machines Common Sense
  • AT&T Reorg Puts John Donovan Over Telecom and DirecTV Biz, Report Says