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Happy Friday, everyone! Here’s SDxCentral’s gathering of the week’s news bits around software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and related topics.

... The Cloud Foundry Foundation was launched by the company of the same name and will act as an independent nonprofit managed as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.

... The TM Forum released a suite of 20 best practices and proposed standards for management of NFV and digital services. The announcement comes after several leading organizations joined together within the Zero-Touch Orchestration, Operations and Management (ZOOM) project.

... Pertino extended its Cloud Network Engine platform to offer support for iOS devices with iOSConnect.

... The Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) Project welcomed Array Networks, Midokura, Ooredoo, and Sonus Networks to the group.

... WebNMS and Calsoft Labs are partnering to provide service providers with delivery of virtual services on existing networks.

... Edgewater Networks named Mike Ward as its new senior vice president of worldwide sales.

... HP updated its NFV Director to fully support HP Helion OpenStack. It also announced some virtualized network functions (VNFs) for NFV: An API manager, a WebRTC gateway controller, and a suite of VNFs for the mobile packet core.

... Netronome said it will work with Microsoft to improve host-based SDN performance, efficiency, and scale while enhancing lifecycle management of multicloud systems made up of virtual networks, VMs, and VNFs.

... Big Switch made a few additions this week, including hiring Gregg Holzrichter as its new CMO and opening an office for its Japan subsidiary.

... The Indiana Center for Networks Translational Research and Education (InCNTRE) SDN Lab will open itself up to those outside of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). The organization had announced last month that it would provide conformance testing to non-ONF members.

... Google Cloud Platform expanded its support for Windows-based workloads, including a Microsoft License Mobility offer and the freeing-up of the Chrome RDP app for all users.

... Pica8 added another investor, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, to the Series B funding round that was announced in October.

... Qwilt, a company specializing in caching and acceleration of service-provider video, announced an NFV-based Mobile Video Fabric. It can be deployed in a centralized or distributed fashion in the mobile packet core.

... Chip vendor Vitesse revealed an open API for its CEServices software. The API works as an important part of enabling open source SDN Controllers to program necessary functions in an automated, programmatic model.

... Broadcom updated its OpenFlow Data Plane Abstraction (OF-DPA) reference platform. Version 2.0 includes carrier-specific features such as support for MPLS-TP.

... A Palo Alto Networks consulting engineer, speaking at Light Reading events, reiterated the oft-referenced theme that SDN and NFV security needs to be planned from the start.

... Cisco Senior Vice President Hilton Romanski discussed the company's M&A strategy with the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

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