Check out our top articles of June 2018, covering the SDxCentral universe of SDN, NFV, and related topics. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the month.

10. Microsoft Bets Billions On Open Source Developers With $7.5B GitHub Buy

The deal better positions the software giant in the commercial cloud space against rivals AWS and Google. Read more.

9. Broadcom Cuts 1,100 Employees, Blames Brocade Acquisition

The company said employee termination costs saved $35 million and $143 million during the first two fiscal quarters of 2018. Read more.

8. Tintri Collapse Imminent as Funds Wither, Stock Plunges

It appears that the cloud storage vendor Tintri is on the verge of collapse, less than a year after raising $50 million. Read more.

7. Cisco Invests in Avi Networks Series D and Resells Avi's Technology

Avi says Cisco provides Layer 2 to 4 solutions, and Avi provides Layer 4 to 7. The joint solution allows Cisco to offer a full networking stack from Layers 2 to 7 across any environment.  Read more.

6. Cisco: We're Still Open to the Ericsson Partnership

The much-touted Cisco-Ericsson partnership is languishing thanks to the executive changes at Ericsson. Read more.

5. VMware's Future Is Networking, CEO Pat Gelsinger Says

In addition to NSX, the company's software-defined storage and hyperconverged products also saw strong growth during the first quarter of its fiscal 2019. Read more.

4. The $449M Price VMware Paid for VeloCloud Could Be Misleading

IHS Markit also reported drops in SD-WAN revenue for Huawei and InfoVista, but these could simply be reflections of quarterly variations in contracts. Read more.

3. AT&T Data Centers Fetch $1.1B in Sale to Brookfield Infrastructure

The deal follows months of rumors about the divestiture and makes a (very) small dent in the $85 billion check AT&T just wrote to acquire Time Warner. Read more.

2. Is Kubernetes Ready to Replace OpenStack and VMware?

CNCF Executive Director Dan Kohn said the group wants Kubernetes to take on a greater role in shaping the future of cloud architecture. Read more.

1. Dell'Oro: Ericsson Beats Huawei, Cisco as No. 1 NFV EPC Vendor

A recent Dell'Oro report found that the prevalence of 5G has triggered strong growth within the NFV market, specifically with cloud native VNFs. Read more.