Boy howdy! Here’s a Friday roundup of news related to software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) from the week:

Analysts at Deutsche Bank believe Amazon Web Services could be worth $160 billion, reports WHIR.com.

Dell is preparing to sell around $10 billion in non-core assets, including software and services, in order to buy EMC, reports Reuters. Possible assets on the auction block are Quest Software, AppAssure, Perot Systems, and security acquisition SonicWall.

Cisco is advancing its Security Everywhere strategy deeper into the cloud, network, and endpoints with new products and features and a threat awareness service.

Microsoft will offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure.

Verizon Enterprise Solutions is adding HP and Verizon Cloud to its Secure Cloud Interconnect service, essentially doubling its Asia-Pacific footprint to 12 locations from five cloud providers, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

Nuage Networks and Telefonica Business Solutions tested service chaining of virtualized network functions in a multivendor SDN environment.

Puerto Rico-based Optivon deployed Metaswitch’s fully virtualized Business Communications, allowing Optivon to deliver hosted PBX, unified communications, contact center, and SIP trunking services from software running on commodity servers in its cloud data center.

Marvell unveiled its Andromeda Box IoT platform made for Brillo, Google's new operating system based on Android, with native support for Weave communication protocol.

Oracle hosted the HackerX event at the former Datalogix headquarters in Westminster, Colorado, where local engineers could learn how Oracle is helping create the so-called data-as-a-service category. Datalogix was acquired by Oracle in early 2015.

Oracle also introduced its Exadata Database Machine X5-8, which integrates hardware and software for high performance database deployments.

Security startup vArmour hired a former Department of Homeland Security undersecretary, Mark Weatherford, as chief security strategist and also added Matthew Williamson as CTO.

CoreOS announced general availability for Tectonic, its Kubernetes stack.

Here’s what else SDxCentral has covered lately: