SDxCentral’s SDN & NFV Weekly Roundup

Adlink and Google Cloud partner on IoT; Red Hat debuts a Kubernetes-native Java framework; and news, partnerships, and releases from RSA.

Windstream files for bankruptcy; containerd graduates at CNCF; and news, partnerships, and releases from MWC Barcelona.

Pivotal and Samsung join the O-RAN Alliance; Splunk withdraws from Russia; Microsoft expands its security service into Europe.

Verizon adds a secure connection to Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft Azure debuts new data services; 6Wind and Advantech work together on white boxes.

Vodafone Germany swaps out Huawei for Nokia in its core network; Sprint sues AT&T for 'fake 5G' tech; and Cisco completes its acquisition of Luxtera.

The Linux Foundation gains a mapping platform; Intel plans a new chip factory in Oregon; and Google Cloud adds a serverless document database.

Google receives the largest GDPR fine to date; The Department of Labor accuses Oracle of wage discrimination; Digital Realty expands its footprint.

ZTE releases a cybersecurity statement; Microsoft wins $1.76M contract with the DoD; CenturyLink opens security center in Singapore.

AWS purchases a disaster recovery startup; Synchronoss and TBSCASoft build blockchain for telecom operators; Red Hat releases a new version of its enterprise workflow framework.

AT&T sells off its data center colocation assets; Cloudera completes merge with Hortonworks; NTT Com's 2019 transformation.

Google Cloud acquires DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA); Telecom Italia (TIM), Qualcomm, and Ericsson successfully complete a live video call using 5G mmWave spectrum; AT&T offers new security service.

Amazon Web Services opens in Sweden; Apple expands across the US; and the Hyperledger project expands its membership.

Sprint names its first 5G markets for 2019; Telco Systems and Arm work on uCPE; and IBM sells software assets to HCL Technologies for $1.8 billion.

Google Cloud lands in Hong Kong; Infinera adds optical network to its open line system; and plenty of news from AWS re:Invent.

Cisco acquires software provider Ensoft; AWS expands language processing service and Snowball; and the LF Networking Fund grows its membership.