Here are the top stories SDxCentral wrangled this week related to SDN, NFV, 5G, IoT, cloud, and more:

VMware Courts Telcos With vCloud NFV 2.0 — vCloud NFV includes themes of service automation, operational intelligence, multi-tenancy, and carrier-grade enhancements.

Juniper Reorganizes to Align Strategy with Execution — The company's EVP and general manager of development and innovation Jonathan Davidson resigned.

Q&A: Cisco's David Ulevitch on Security and the Brain in the Cloud — Cisco's new security chief has ambitions bigger than $2B a year.

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

More than a dozen companies are participating in a three-month project to get a better understanding of how network and service management needs to be improved. The participating companies are Amdocs, China Mobile, Ciena, Deutsche Telekom, DELL EMC, Ericsson, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Infosim, NEC/Netcracker, Nokia, Orchestral Networks, Telefonica, and Viavi Solutions.

Data scientist community Kaggle is joining Google Cloud where it will operate as its own brand within the cloud platform.

Rackspace has teamed with Google Cloud to become a services support partner for Google Cloud Platform.

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) vendor CloudGenix has entered into a distribution agreement with Promark Technology.

Edgecore Networks announced design contributions to the Open Compute Project to lower the cost of high capacity data center networks.

Genband announced that it has joined Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (Cengn).

Sberbank (Switzerland) AG added the Palo Alto Networks next-generation security platform to its security framework.

CA Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Veracode for approximately $614 million in cash.

Colt Technology Services expanded its Dedicated Cloud Access on demand offering into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

China Telecom Wuxi Branch (Wuxi Telecom) upgraded from a traditional data center to a cloud-based multi-tenant data center using Huawei's CloudFabric.

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