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

Ericsson and Singtel will launch a 5G pilot network in Singapore by the fourth quarter of this year.

Dell EMC released version 4.4 of Dell EMC Unity with array-based replication with MetroSync for File.

HPE updated its data storage management software, HPE 3PAR, with new predictive support automation.

Digital Realty added IBM Cloud direct connections in 15 global metropolitan areas.

Twistlock added support for binary authorization for Google Kubernetes Engine.

Zerocode Technology will resell Splice Machine's data warehouse and machine learning platform in China.

Cohesity released its DataPlatform cloud edition on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for backup and recovery of applications.

Teneo leveraged Riverbed technology to launch a software service so users can monitor mission-critical applications.

Qualys Malware Research Labs released a chrome extension to detect and block cryptojacking attempts.

Rackspace launched its customer reliability engineering program and managed security platform for GCP.

Netscout’s real-time network performance and data is now part of IBM’s Analytics offering.

IDC reported that smart city initiatives will attract more than $81 billion in investments in 2018.

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, will acquire cloud systems integrator Rean Cloud.

Micro Focus launched general availability of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform IDOL 12, which simplifies GDPR compliance and data privacy protection.

University of Illinois deployed Cradlepoint wireless branch network technologies for theater connectivity.

Sumo Logic released 11 new GCP applications and an integration with Google Cloud’s open source machine learning library.

Druva integrated its product offerings to create a data management software service with a single point of management.

Open source task PowerShell Core from Microsoft launched on Linux as a Snap.

Data center company Cologix will open a data center in Vancouver. This will be its third.

Software company Blue Medora added support on GCP and Alibaba Cloud for its monitoring integration-as-a-service.

Pulse Secure released version 9.0 with a VPN-integrated path to network access control.

Cloud computing startup Rescale raised $32 million in its Series B round of funding.

Kentik launched a network analytics product for GCP to optimize network performance, security, and user experience.

Threat hunting company Bricata released a new version of its flagship product on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and support for VMware and Linux.

Security provider MobileIron integrated its endpoint management product with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator.

Security provider Insight Engines released version 3.0 of threat detection platform.

Vonage integrated its API platform with Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI.

RedLock updated its Cloud 360 platform with deeper integrations with GCP.

Israeli-based security company Toka raised $12.5 million in its seed round.

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