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Red Hat released general availability of Virtualization 4.2. This is the company's Kernel-based virtual machine powered virtualization platform. It also released its virtualization suite.

HPE launched an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform for telecom operators.

Open Fiber selected Cisco’s Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) platform to automate its network, Open Fiber's network services were configured by Italtel and Maticmind.

SoftBank created a radio access network design using machine intelligence technology from Ericsson.

CA Technologies’ Privileged Access Manager was approved and certified by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Cohesity integrated its Data Platform with Microsoft Azure.

Telefonica certified monitoring company Empirix’s virtual multi-service probe to be deployed within its UNICA environment.

Spirent formed the TM Forum Catalyst Project to work on network automation and quality of service. AT&T, TIM, and KDDI are all a part of the project.

Rackspace acquired RelationEdge, a Salesforce partner and digital marketing agency. The acquisition is intended to provide implementation and managed services for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.

TM Forum debuted its bi-annual Digital Transformation Tracker, which outlines the barriers to digital transformation.

Lanner Electronics and Intel partnered to work on hardware/software universal CPE (uCPE) for software-defined networks (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV).

Creanord, service level assurance provider, integrated its NFV service assurance technology with ADVA’s open virtualization suite.

NoviFlow, a vendor of OpenFlow-based switching, released its network operating system for Barefoot Networks’ P4-programmable switch chip.

Internet of Things (IoT) analyst firm Berg Insight completed a report that said Narrowband-IoT device shipments will sell 613.2 million units in 2023.

Monitoring company Exfo launched a platform that links performance measurement to network topology.

Cloudian launched its HyperStore object storage management technology on Google Cloud Platform.

Performance management company Centina released the newest version of its service assurance platform to enable automation, closed-loop orchestration, and more.

Security provider BugReplay integrated its flagship network debugging product with software provider Inflectra’s suite of applications.

Belgium cable provider Telenet chose Benu Network’s virtual service edge platform for its small-to-medium enterprise markets.

Monitoring company Uila received a patent for infrastructure performance monitoring.

Software provider UBiqube launched a series of training sessions that will teach multi-vendor and multi-domain orchestration skills.

Broadband Dynamics selected Colo Atl, a data center and carrier-neutral colocation provider, for its data center services in Atlanta.

Rohde & Schwarz technology group and PoLTE Corporation, cellular-based location company, partnered to grow the cellular-connected IoT device ecosystem.

CTAccel joined Accelize ecosystem to make its image processor available in its marketplace.

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