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

HPE, Dell & Cisco Lead Cloud Infrastructure Sales — Cloud IT infrastructure revenue is up 14.5 percent year-over-year to $7.7 billion in the second quarter.

AT&T Chooses VeloCloud to Deliver SD-WAN — AT&T says it’s going to offer two different types of SD-WAN: a network-based system and an on-premises-based system.

Juniper CEO: How Networking Will Control Your Life — Rami Rahim presents some futuristic thinking at Juniper's Nxtwork.

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

Exfo has partnered with NEC/Netcracker to incorporate pre-integrated systems into a network functions virtualization (NFV) ecosystem.

Sandvine announced the Sandvine Traffic Steering Engine to help operators deploy large-scale NFV and Service Function Chaining (SFC).

IBM and AT&T are teaming to help businesses manage their networking services more effectively and efficiently.

Infinera has joined the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) to demonstrate multi-vendor, multi-layer software-defined networking (SDN) Transport Application Programming Interface (T-API) interoperability.

Viptela, a software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) company, launched the vForce Global Partner Program.

Built on Kubernetes, Tectonic enables you to manage complex containerized application infrastructure from application source code to live load balancer.

Cloudify and Orange Labs are demonstrating an approach to full-lifecycle management and orchestration (MANO) of OPNFV deployments on OpenStack at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona later this month.

Lanner Electronics, a manufacturer of network appliances, and Versa Networks created an integrated system that merges Versa SD-WAN software with Lanner’s vCPE platforms.

PrismTech, a carrier of software platforms for distributed systems, released its Vortex 2.3 Intelligent Data Sharing Platform for the Internet of Things (IoT).

Open Source Storage, an enterprise data storage company, launched its newest version of its Open Source Storage cloud.

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