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

5 Funding Insights from a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist — Index Ventures' Mike Volpi shares some thoughts on the current startup landscape and the impact of the public cloud.

Hans Vestberg’s Rise and Fall: How Ericsson’s CEO Lost His Shine — A look back at Ericsson's big plans of the last six years.

Keep an Eye on These 11 Container Startups — Excluding Docker itself, who's making waves in containers? Here's an overview of players in container security, storage, networking, and orchestration.

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

Cloud startup ZeroStack has partnered with managed service providers T5 Data Centers and Colovore.

The Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) project added the Broadband Forum, Lime Micro, NTT East, Quortus and Telefónica as collaborators.

Huawei appointed David He as the new president of Huawei Enterprise U.S. He will be based in the company's U.S. headquarters in Plano, Texas and will oversee the Enterprise Business Group's American operations.

FusionLayer received certification for its software-defined IP Address Management (SD-IPAM) system on Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)’s network functions virtualization (NFV) infrastructure and OpenStack distribution.

ETSI’s Industry Specification Group for NFV has renewed its leadership team and established a new structure to meet the demands of its forthcoming set of protocol and data model specifications.

Serro, an organization specializing in deploying comprehensive and leading technology solutions, has joined the OpenDaylight Project at the silver level.

The Broadband Forum teamed up with Open Networking Laboratory (On.Lab) on the development of future broadband requirements and standards.

6WIND announced general availability for its Mirantis-certified Virtual Accelerator Fuel plug-in.

AlienVault updated its Open Threat Exchange (OTX), which now includes OTX ThreatFinder, a service for analyzing compromised systems.

Fortinet, Juniper, and Viptela were among the vendors added to Verizon Enterprise Solutions’ partner ecosystem.

Quali released CloudShell 7.0, which introduces support for deploying applications into sandboxes.

A month after introducing the Apstra Operating System (AOS), Apstra announced general availability of AOS 1.0, a distributed operating system for the data center network.

Criterion Network Labs, a network interoperability test facility launched of CNLabs’ software-defined networking (SDN)/NFV Alliance Program.

Sonus added key enhancements to its Session Border Controller Software edition (SBC SWe).

ADVA Optical Networking has expanded its NFV Ensemble Harmony Ecosystem with the addition of 10 new members.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week: