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

Satellite Company Hughes Rolls Out Managed SD-WAN Services — Connectivity can be delivered through satellite, cable, fiber, and LTE.

Nokia Scores Networking Deal by Settling Apple Patent Dispute — Nokia will essentially become an Apple supplier.

VMware's Pulse IoT Platform Focuses on the Sweet Spot — VMware plans to use its control plane expertise to differentiate from other IoT platforms.

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

Ericsson demonstrated a 5G network slicing product that supports multiple network slices on the same device with NTT Docomo.

Cohesity's customers can now scale out secondary storage workloads from on-premises deployments to Microsoft Azure.

Uhuru Corporation entered into an agreement with ARM as an enterprise licensee of the ARM mbed Cloud.

Red Hat signed an agreement to acquire Codenvy, a provider of cloud-native development tools.

Infosys launched its Boundaryless Data Lake offering powered by its information grid system on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

PTC released the newest version of its ThingWorx Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform – ThingWorx 8.

Citrix unveiled enhanced user experience capabilities including new mobile, software-defined networking (SDN), and analytics services in the Citrix Cloud and document workflows.

F5 Networks released new public and private cloud offerings to provide consistent application services in multicloud environments.

Sonus Networks and Genband partnered to focus on communications networking, with increased scale and market reach across products, customers, and geographies.

Huawei won the bid for China Telecom's Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) network project in parts of the Yangtze River.

Comptel released a new version of its FlowOne Fulfillment suite for providers to build software platforms on public cloud infrastructure.

Nutanix provided the private cloud deployment of SAIC Volkswagen, a joint venture between Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC Motor) and Volkswagen Group.

NoviFlow released an optional feature of its network operating software to have fully programmable forwarding planes.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • Tanium Raises $100M: 'Vote of Confidence' or 'Liquidity Event' After Bad Press
  • Nexius Software-Focused Subsidiary Targets Cisco and Ericsson
  • Sprint Builds its 5G Clout Through Open Source, NYU Affiliation
  • Cloudera's PaaS Targets Big Data Workloads Running in the Cloud
  • Rackspace Acquires TriCore Solutions, Names Eazor as CEO
  • DDN Hires Intel Storage Guru for New CTO Position
  • Accedian's SkyLight Brings NFV to Performance Monitoring
  • Chef Updates Automation Platform for Cloud and Containers
  • CNCG Take CNI Container Interface Standard Under its Wing
  • Cylance Uses AI, Machine Learning to Prevent Security Threats
  • IBM Gives Private Cloud Users Access to Open Source Databases
  • Linux Foundation Grows So Much it Hires a Chief of Staff
  • New Relic Taps Further Into AWS For Performance Insight
  • Cisco Jumps On IoT Security Train with IoT Threat Defense
  • Masergy Brews Its Own Complementary SD-WAN Technology In-House
  • Calix Uses SDN Platform in Channel Bonding Trial for Verizon
  • Aporeto Scores $14.5M to Develop 'Holy Grail of Cloud Security'
  • SDxCentral Survey: 26% of Users Will Not Consider Open Source MANO
  • Windstream Taps SDN to Orchestrate Optical Network Services
  • Fugue Team Conductor Centralizes Control Over Many AWS Accounts
  • VMware's Pulse IoT Platform Focuses on the Sweet Spot
  • AT&T Adds Connectivity, Security Options to FlexWare VNF Management Platform
  • Kubernetes 1.7 to Focus on Features Instead of Initial Stability
  • SoftBank, Saudis Kick Off $93B Global Technology Investment Fund