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

Jiandani & Fellow MPLS Team Members Resign from Cisco — The spin-in team has spun out.

F5 Considers Buyout Offers — Analysts name several possible suitors.

EMC Connects Its Storage to Containers — SAN vendor tries to stay relevant in a container world.

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

Metaswitch hired Ian Maclean to the position of chief marketing officer. Maclean was most recently COO at Tango Networks.

DigitalOcean has hired Julia Austin, formerly of VMware, as its chief technology officer to lead product and engineering for its cloud computing platform.

ExtraHop, which conducts wire data analytics for IT intelligence and business operations, hired John Leon as VP of business development.

The Linux Foundation announced its newest training course, covering software-defined networking (SDN) with OpenDaylight.

Simplivity launched versions of its hyperconverged infrastructure that target remote offices and branch offices.

NephoScale, which provides OpenStack cloud management software, released NephOS v3.0, based on the OpenStack Liberty release.

VOO, a provider of broadband cable services in Belgium, deployed Allot’s Service Gateway Tera.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • Glue Networks Spreads Beyond Cisco’s SD-WAN
  • EMC Connects Its Storage to Containers
  • Arkados' Arktic IoT Platform Targets Smart Cities
  • Tips for Open Source Developers in the Job Market
  • Security Startup Infocyte Widens Its Threat Hunting Scope
  • CoreOS Attacks the Problem of Container Storage
  • HPE & GE Form an IoT Partnership
  • ECI Offers Optical Bandwidth on Demand
  • HPE Gets Serious With Docker & Opens Up 'The Machine'
  • Dell's IoT Partner Program Adds VMware
  • Big Switch & Blue Coat Partner to Fortify Security
  • Midokura Sticks to Its Roots in Raising a $20M Series B
  • IBM Turns Apache Spark Into a Data Science 'Experience'
  • SolarWinds Attacks the Hybrid IT Market
  • Verizon Data Center Sale Still Up in the Air
  • Verizon Uses Radisys & Mojatatu for SDN & NFV
  • Embotics Gains $12.1M to Compete With VMware
  • AT&T Adds Nokia to 5G Trials, Expands Locations
  • Sprint’s 5G Trial Uses Nokia Gear to Demonstrate 4K Video