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

From Farms to Homes: AT&T Tests Drones Industrial IoT Apps — Who runs air traffic control for drones?

AT&T Unveils Network Functions on Demand in 76 Countries — And Verizon launches a similar NFV-based service.

Walmart Offers OpenStack a 6th Birthday Present — Walmart is serious about DevOps and wants to enlist some open source help.

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

Motherboard vendor Gigabyte announced products based on the Cavium ThunderX processor.

FatPipe Networks and Avaya combined data center SDN and software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) into a single system for networking and communications.

Pica8’s PicOS network operating system has been added to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE's) app store and validated in the company's SDN ecosystem.

NoviFlow deployed Ixia’s IxNetwork to validate the company’s designs and accelerate the delivery of its products.

Symantec announced the release the next version of Symantec Control Compliance Suite, the enterprise-class IT governance, risk, and compliance system.

Red Hat announced the general availability of Ansible Tower 3, the third version of its enterprise-grade automation platform.

DataServ, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of document and process automation solutions, is expanding its leadership team with the addition of Shane Freeman as the director of marketing and product management and Julie King as a client success account manager.

Sift Security, a startup specializing in threat hunting, raised a $3.25 million angel round.

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