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

Microsoft Ignite Kicks Off With Docker, Azure Stack & AI — Microsoft is adding the commercial version of the Docker Engine to Windows Server 2016.

Verizon Reveals Items on Its Virtualization Roadmap — Verizon says that SD-WAN is its most popular virtualization offering right now, but more services are in the works.

Google to Hire 1,000 People to Boost Its Cloud Business — Machine learning, Windows, and enterprise business strategies get the spotlight as Google makes Google Cloud Platform a top priority.

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

Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled details of its upcoming Microsoft Azure Stack system.

Canonical launched a distribution of Kubernetes with enterprise support, across a range of public clouds and private infrastructure.

NEC demonstrated two cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) systems at the Microsoft Ignite Conference held in Atlanta.

Coriant will showcase multi-vendor and multi-layer interworking using the Coriant Transcend software-defined networking (SDN) Transport Controller and Coriant hiT 7300 Multi-Haul Transport Platform in a fall 2016 interoperability demonstration.

Telefónica and Huawei launched the Open Cloud and Cloud Server services in Chile, Brazil and Mexico.

Dell EMC broadened its support of Microsoft environments with new Microsoft Azure Services, Validated Systems for Microsoft Exchange and SQL.

Netrounds will showcase a joint virtualized system for end-to-end, active quality assurance.

MEF announced that ECI is leading MEF’s OpenLSO Service Fulfillment project.

Allot Communications is expanding its Allot ClearSee Network Analytics toolkit to include ClearSee Network Metrics and Real-Time Monitor, alongside Network Analytics and Self-Service Reporting, all managed from a newly released unified business intelligence interface.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be opening an AWS Region in Paris in 2017.

Brocade announced the availability of the Brocade SDN Controller based on OpenDaylight’s Boron release.

EarthLink Holdings launched a software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) service to help businesses optimize their network.

Red Hat released its Ansible Tower App for Splunk that integrates Ansible Tower with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week: