Network Break 248: VMware Acquires Veriflow; Xirrus Changes Hands

This week Drew has snaffled all the virtual donuts and gone on the run to an undisclosed location. The special operations recovery team I sent to recover them hasn’t been heard from for over a week.
But do not fear, we have drafted Ned Bellavance from the Day Two Cloud podcast. 
I encourage you get a Masala Chai tea and a plate of virtual baklava and feast your virtual self while we perambulate with passion through our sweet selection of tech news and industry analysis.
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Show Links:
VMware to Advance Network Monitoring with Acquisition of Veriflow – VMware
Cambium Networks Announces the Purchase of Xirrus Wi-Fi Networks from Riverbed Technology, Inc. – Cambium Networks
CenturyLink Drops ‘Several Hundred Million’ Dollars on Edge – Light Reading
CenturyLink to Begin Making Major Investments in Edge Compute Services – CenturyLink
Equinix Investor Relations – Equinix
S1 Filing For CloudFlare’s IPO – SEC
MikroTik Routers and Wireless – Products: CRS326-24S+2Q+RM – Mikrotik
Talk about keeping it in the family: Dell-owned Pivotal shares rocket after Dell-owned VMware mulls gobbling it up – The Register
Strategic Kubernetes Options To Deploy Any App On Any Cloud – VMware (PDF)
Car crash: Ford writes down $181m in Pivotal stock as investors claim cloud biz still can’t do Kubernetes properly – The Register