Happy Friday, everyone! Miss the news? Don’t worry, the SDxCentral weekly news roundup is here to deliver the news bits surrounding software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and more. Get ready, ‘cuz it’s coming atcha:

Red Hat notified users of a security breach on ceph.com and download.inktank.com, two sites offering code for the Ceph open source storage system.

Nexenta integrated container technology into its Nexenta Edge software-defined storage platform.

The network security market grew 13 percent year-over-year during the second quarter, according to a report from Infonetics.

Intel announced the creation of the Automotive Security Review Board this week in an effort to quell threats associated with connected cars. The review board will conduct security tests and audits to establish best practices for drivers.

Cisco and Time Warner's former CTOs, Charles Giancarlo and Michael Lajoie respectively, joined Viptela's board of advisors.

Dell'Oro Group published a report saying that while server shipments to cloud data centers slowed down in 2015's second quarter, they still are a strong impetus in the server market.

StackIQ released Stacki 2, a Linux server provisioning tool that offers new features to make automation and integration requirements easier.

Citrix brought on Kimberly Martin as the company's new vice president of partner strategy and sales.

Iron.io, a startup looking to rival Amazon, received $8 million in Series A funding, led by Baseline Ventures with Bain Capital, Divergent Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Cloud Capital Partners tagging along. Prior to the lump-sum investment, Iron.io had $5.5 million in seed funding.

Radisys welcomed Bryan Sadowski as its vice president of FlowEngine Product Marketing. Sadowski previously worked at Sonus Networks.

vArmour's distributed security system was awarded VMware Ready status.

Gitlab raised a $4 million Series A from Khosla Ventures.

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