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

Telefónica Chooses Cisco's Network Services Orchestrator — The orchestrator is enabled by Tail-f.

Veriflow, Applying Formal Verification to Security, Lands $8.2M Series A — It uses formal verification to spot breaches.

Meet Mojatatu: A Quiet Company That Verizon Chose for SDN — Its SDN is based on the IETF's ForCES architecture.

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

The open source group Open-O elected China Mobile’s Deng Hui as chair and Huawei’s Christopher Donley as technical steering committee chair.

Canonical and Pivotal collaborated to provide secure, certified Ubuntu images within the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform.

Fujitsu and Oracle teamed up to deliver cloud services. Fujitsu will install the Oracle Cloud services in its data centers in Japan.

Clavister launched a new version of its virtualized security operating system for mobile network operators to protect their networks.

JFrog announced availability of Xray, the container-scanning product it announced in May.

Cypress completed its acquisition of Broadcom’s wireless Internet of Things (IoT) business and related assets in a transaction valued at $550 million.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • Is David Goeckeler Overseeing 50% of Cisco Revenues?
  • Cisco’s Tom Edsall: On Policy, Webscale Giants & Containers
  • GigaSpaces Unleashes New Version of Cloudify Orchestration
  • NGMN to Write the 5G Trial Rulebook For Mobile Operators
  • Kubernetes Extends Its Reach Across Multiple Clouds
  • Plexxi Gets Involved with Data Center Pod Architecture
  • Alibaba Recruits Microsoft Big Data Expert For AliCloud
  • Twistlock Raises $10M for Container Security
  • SK Telecom & KPN Deploy Nationwide LoRa IoT Networks
  • Ericsson Partners with Global Operators on IoT and 5G