Before you ride into the sunset for the weekend, check out these news bits that SDxCentral rustled up during the week related to software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and more:

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) officially ran out of IPv4 numbers for North America. (More specifically, it issued the final addresses in its free pool.)

A minor snag in HP’s big layoff: Some employees who haven’t agreed to become contractors seem to be keeping their jobs, reports Business Insider.

Also pertaining to HP, the state of Michigan filed a $49 million lawsuit against the company, claiming HP has still not completed a computer upgrade project after 10 years.

Amazon Web Services suffered an outage affecting some of its big customers including Netflix and Tinder, as well as its own video and book websites. The outage is a reminder to those who use AWS for mission critical apps to plan accordingly, as Network World notes.

Megaport hired Eric Troyer as chief marketing officer. Troyer joins the SDN-based elastic interconnection firm from Microsoft, where he was director of network edge and interconnection strategy.

Ericsson and LG Uplus signed an MoU to collaborate on Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure.

CoreOS moved Tectonic to open preview from private preview, bringing the container management platform one step closer to general availability.

Midokura announced Overstock.com as a customer for Midokura Enterprise MidoNet.

Network control company Infoblox rolled out Identity Mapping to bridge the gap between network security and user identity by correlating two previously separate sets of data.

Infinera appointed Rajal Patel to its board of directors. Since March 2014, Patel has served as head of cloud engineering at Pinterest.

SevOne raised $50 million in Series C financing led by Westfield Capital Management and Bain Capital Ventures.

Allot Communications received an expansion order of about $8 million from a major, but unnamed, APAC tier-1 fixed-line operator.

Norwegian-based Bayonette partnered with Alten Calsoft Labs to deploy a residential virtual CPE for broadband providers.

Here’s what else SDxCentral covered lately: