Happy Friday cowboys and cowgirls! Here are this week's final news bits related to software defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and other corners of the SDxCentral universe:

Apple has moved a significant amount of its cloud infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform and off of Amazon Web Services (AWS), CRN reported. Considering Amazon now reports AWS' revenues, analysts are going to be keen to see if Apple's migration makes a notable dent in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) leader.

The ONOS community released its latest code update, Falcon, which features additional support for Central Office Re-Architected as a Data Center (CORD), many new applications and more support for southbound protocols. In addition, ONOS is developing a new open reference implementation for CORD.

Radisys became a systems integrator for CORD. Radisys’ CORD combines a deployable hardware blueprint together with a complete open source software stack for central office transformation projects.

Former Juniper and Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has joined Australian carrier Telstra. He carries the newly created title of group executive for technology, innovation, and strategy.

Deutsche Telekom plans to offer its business customers a mobile security app from Jimperium — Mobile Protect Pro — that is compatible with Android and iOS devices.

Along related lines, Zscaler announced that its security technology is being used by Deutsche Telekom in the carrier's Internet Protect Pro service.

In other security news, CoreOS launched a container image analyzer called Clair.

Ciena is integrating its new 6500 T-Series Packet-Optical Platform into its Blue Planet software.

NEC released version 6.3 of its ProgrammableFlow Networking Suite, which includes secure network isolation of data traffic with up to 64,000 virtual networks.

ECI named Carlos Brito its new general manager for Latin America and David Holder as director of sales for service providers in Europe and Scandinavia.

The French Internet service provider IMS Networks chose Huawei's wide area network (WAN) SDN solution to build a new IP backbone network.

Lumentum unveiled a handful of optical white boxes, equipment designed to operate under different vendors' SDN controllers.

The MEF finished the first phase of its work on lifecycle service orchestration (LSO).

Here’s what else SDxCentral has covered lately: