SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — December 2019

Check out our top 10 articles for December 2019, covering the SDxCentral universe of SDN, NFV, and related topics. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the month. Check out our top 10 articles for December 2019, covering the SDxCentral universe of SDN, NFV, and related topics. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the month. Verizon’s organizational structure and network position has changed more during the last 12 months than at any other time during its 19-year history. Read more. Google Cloud made some big moves in 2019, but will they be enough to best top-ranked Amazon and Microsoft and win the cloud wars? Read more. Silicon One is a programmable silicon architecture that the vendor claims can serve anywhere in the network and be used in any form factor. Read more. The report measured AWS, GCP, and Azure on CPU, network, and storage while highlighting performance trade-offs with each provider. Read more. “Maybe the national anthem is still playing in this game of containers and it’s very early,” COO Sanjay Poonen said of the market. Read more. Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud pledged to jointly develop a new multi-cloud security framework. Read more. The company today said it hired Raj Yavatkar as the new CTO. Like Koley, Yavatkar previously headed cloud networking at Google. Read more. Gartner’s latest WAN Edge Magic Quadrant report has VMware and Silver Peak leading that market in 2019, while Cisco and Riverbed have slipped. Read more. Late last month Cisco announced it had 20,000 SD-WAN customers spread across its Viptela and Meraki SD-WAN platforms. Read more. Aviatrix CEO Steve Mullaney says using SD-WAN to connect branch offices to the cloud misses the boat. “SD-WAN is dead. I mean, it’s over.” Read more.