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

Tintri’s slide into oblivion accelerated this week as the cloud storage vendor cut most of its
workforce. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Tintri reported that its board of directors approved slashing about 200 jobs in an attempt to preserve cash. The move leaves the company with between 40 and 50 employees. The Register reported that CEO Thomas Barton recently left over a dispute with the board regarding a possible sale of the company. Tintri’s website does not currently show a CEO, with CTO and co-founder Kieran Harty listed as its highest ranking executive.

AT&T acquired AppNexus, a cloud-based advertising software company, for an estimated $1.6 billion.

IEEE adopted the OpenFog Consortium’s Reference Architecture for fog computing as an official standard.

Oracle debuted a digital learning platform with modules, learning paths, tutorials, and instructions for Oracle Cloud applications.

Tencent was named a platinum member of The Linux Foundation.

Microsoft Azure open sourced its IoT Edge on GitHub, added Moby support, and released additional upgrades.

SD-WAN provider RingCentral launched an SD-WAN partners program with VMware, CloudGenix, Riverbed, Cradlepoint, and more.

ETSI published a white paper on the role of multi-access edge computing (MEC) in 5G.

Nokia is partnering with French network service provider e-Qual to bring Nokia’s Nuage Networks SD-WAN to 60 countries in e-Qual’s network.

Open source blockchain group Hyperledger named 11 new members.

Calix updated its Support Cloud and Marketing Cloud with new analytics features.

CA Technologies released a new version of its automation platform that incorporated CA Jarvis for analytics.

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute and Fu Huake Precision Industry jointly demonstrated 5G and 8K video streaming.

NTT Communications joined VMware’s cloud verified service.

Edge computing company Vasona Networks partnered with F5 to power virtual MEC deployments for mobile operators.

Ribbon Communications acquired network edge orchestration company Edgewater Networks.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) native security provider Cloud Daddy added its secure backup to the AWS Marketplace.

Security provider Aella Data released version 2.0 of its detection software with multi-tenancy capabilities.

ParkMyCloud added support for Alibaba Cloud.

Virtual Instruments launched a cloud migration readiness service.

LightRiver Software expanded its Red Hat Linux Server features to include dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) and Ethernet visibility.

Metal-cutting and manufacturing company Makino selected Aryaka for its SD-WAN.

LogicMonitor and Terraform integrated their products to manage hybrid IT infrastructure.

Suse released a new version of its Linux Enterprise platform for software-defined infrastructure.

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability of its SDN Transport API.

Security provider SonicWall expanded its Capture Cloud platform to deliver integrated cloud-scale management and end-to-end security.

Zscaler added new SD-WAN and security partners and named new API integrations within its partner ecosystem.

Masergy launched its global unified communication-as-a-service (uCaaS) Masergy Connect.

Lenovo, China Mobile, Xilinx, Radisys and Napatech jointly demonstrated cloud-RAN that supports full decoupling of software and hardware.

Auto racing company Formula 1 deployed AWS for cloud and machine learning.

Continuous delivery and orchestration company Electric Cloud debuted a predictive analytics platform.

InfoVista’s Ipanema SD-WAN virtual network function (VNF) received Cisco NFV Certification.

LightStep added capabilities to its [x]PM monitoring platform for microservices deployments.

Edge provider Zededa is providing early access to its cloud-native platform for edge applications.

Affirmed Networks demonstrated that its virtualized evolved packet core (vEPC) could deliver 150 Gb/s of throughput on an Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based server.

UK Accountant firm Mazars deployed Silver Peak SD-WAN to connect its offices and cloud. It reduced bandwidth traffic by 40 percent after deployment.

Colt extended its collaboration with IBM to include added support for IBM Cloud Direct Link. Colt also selected Adva's Ensemble Connector for NFV.

Interxion released general availability of its encryption key management technology.

Service provider Epsilon partnered with Chinese connectivity provider DCConnect to connect its SDN platforms for network orchestration.

Commvault and Lucidworks will collaborate on bringing AI to the data backup and protection market.

Pure Storage released availability of its container storage-as-a-service orchestrator.

Envoy Data Corporation added Array Networks' Functions platform, including HCI, to its portfolio of products for resale.

Aricent added support for Intel’s FlexRAN reference architecture. It will integrate its 5G framework with Intel FlexRAN.

A Tier-1 U.S.-based internet provider will use Silicom’s 200G switch-on-a-NIC card in its infrastructure for SD-WAN.

Keysight Technologies collaborated with MediaTek on 5G New Radio (NR) chipset development and will test 5G NR protocol stacks.

Edgeworx Solutions will offer Edge Intelligence’s distributed analytics platform to service providers in Canada.

NGINX released general availability of the NGINX controller, which is part of its Application Platform.

Managed services provider C Spire acquired TekLinks.

MapR added artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics capabilities to its data platform.

Extreme Networks named a number of customers in the education industry that are using its software for network management, analytics, and security.

Security simulation and detection company Cyberbit released a new version of its operational technology security platform with real-time asset information and mapping.

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