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

More Changes at Cisco: Jiandani Up, Soderbery Bumped - It also looks as if the spin-in team has taken its last spin.

HPE’s OpenSwitch Network OS Finds a New Home - OpenSwitch really is different from Cumulus and Microsoft SONiC.

Cisco Gets Defensive About ACI Being Connected to Hardware - Cisco also wants everyone to know smaller service providers use ACI, too.

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

Cumulus Networks announced the immediate availability of Cumulus Linux 3.0, targeting customers building next generation public and private clouds.

Google hired Sam Schillace, formerly SVP of engineering with Box, to help run engineering within its cloud division.

At Computex Cavium and Marvell announced their latest ARM-based processors: the ThunderX2 and Armada 7000 and 8000, respectively.

Trend Micro collaborated with NXP to showcase virtual customer premise equipment (vCPE) on NXP’s ARM-based NFV platform.

Optus Wholesale has introduced an SDN product called Optus Cloud-N.

PlumGrid announced that its open networking suite (ONS) 5.0 for OpenStack has achieved certification with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.

Netrounds' control center and test agents achieved compatibility certification with the Cisco Solution Partner program.

VMware announced the expansion of tits Telco NFV partner ecosystem with three new certified VMware Ready NFV systems and four new members to the VMware Ready NFV program.

VMware now also has nine certified systems from eight different vendors for VMware vCloud NFV, including certified partners F5, Silver Peak, and VeloCloud.

Wipro announced it has open-sourced its big data ready enterprise (BDRE).

EMC announced libStorage, providing storage capabilities for container and application platforms.

Amdocs launched its Core Network Testing Service.

CBCcom will deliver a new SD-WAN service to its business customers across China using the Viptela Platform.

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