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

Arista's EOS Redesign Succeeds; it Does Not Infringe on Cisco Patents — Its redesigned products can be imported into the U.S.

Alibaba & Tencent Join Barefoot Networks' $80M Series C — Alibaba, Tencent, and Google all represent the customer base that Barefoot has targeted: cloud giants.

Rick Bauer Leaves ONF for New Gig at MEF — The ONF has undergone some significant changes the last few months.

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

Procera Networks appointed Manuel Rivelo, former F5 CEO, to its board.

Packet Design has joined Ciena’s Blue Orbit program to accelerate the delivery of multilayer software-defined networking (SDN) management and orchestration capabilities.

Google has acquired Qwiklabs to help train users on Google Cloud Platform. Qwiklabs is best known for providing training for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Brocade announced that Quanta Computer, a manufacturer of notebook computers, has deployed Brocade-powered IP networks at factories within its key manufacturing site.

Coriant demonstrated rapid service activation and automated traffic optimization using multilayer SDN technology.

Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) is launching a new series of bare metal switch hardware supporting 25- and 100-Gb/s Ethernet for hyperscale datacenter networking.

IBM is adding four new UK cloud data centers infused with cognitive intelligence.

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