Check out our top 10 articles for October 2021 covering the SDxCentral universe of cloud, telecom, security, and networking. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the month.

“We’re hopeful that it will help shape the industry’s thinking about what does it mean to be a trusted provider,” Cisco’s Chief Privacy Officer Harvey Jang said. Read more.

The startup’s technology helps cloud-native enterprise customers better predict costs and provides transparency across Kubernetes environments. Read more.

“XDR is a term that gets thrown around and really badly abused by the industry because it’s a hot topic,” CrowdStrike CTO Mike Sentonas said. Read more.

“The company is hemorrhaging money, having lost nearly half a billion dollars during the first half of 2021,” and this IPO is unlikely to change that, GlobalData reports. Read more.

“Multi-cloud is clearly the next phase of cloud,” and enormous growth at the edge further emphasizes the need for multi-cloud architecture, CEO Michael Dell said. Read more.

Software components tap into Juniper's acquisition of intent-based networking vendor Apstra. Read more.

The partnerships seek to automate 5G network segmentation and security functionality using a combination of IBM, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks technologies. Read more.

“We're the first vendor to integrate silicon into the device itself to perform not only Ethernet switch function, but those layer 4-7 functionalities," Aruba's John Gray said. Read more.

“We believe the future of work is definitively going to be hybrid, where people are going to work in mixed mode,” Cisco EVP Jeetu Patel said. Read more.

“Well, I think the big winner is Michael [Dell],” analyst Zeus Kerravala said. “It’s not like he needs more money, but he stands to make a boatload of money.” Read more.