Check out SDxCentral's most-read articles of February 2015.

Jim Dolce could have been CEO (at least, some of us thought so). Now he's back as a Juniper board member.

Avaya is building its own SDN controller using its in-house Fabric Connect with the OpenDaylight framework.

Claiming to be serious about open source, Cisco has given David Ward a 275-person team to test the waters.

How will companies be differentiated in the market? Check out Scott Raynovich's key differentiators along with their real-world analogies.

A grass roots effort for intent-driven network management is running in Google's network and set to go live in carriers.

An online portal lets users test SDN products like Big Cloud Fabric in a hands-on environment.

The face of Huawei SDN at forums and conferences, has returned to the user camp, taking a job at Visa

SDN hobbyists: There's a Kickstarter project out there for you.

Appointments at vArmour, Cloud Foundry, Adara, & Illumio, the latest on Docker 1.5 release, & an HP acquisition.

John Chambers sounded positively giddy announcing Q2 earnings, promising to self-disrupt Cisco and thrash competition.

The creation of an NFV unit leads to two promotions at VMware.

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Big Switch's "hyperscale for all" pitch continues with Big Cloud Fabric 2.5. It includes new features like vSphere integration and deeper analytics — and the Dell partnership is heating

Get out your SDN scorecard. VMware says NSX has 400 customers, while Cisco points to nearly 100 deployments of its APIC.

Declaring box-by-box sales to be passe, Cisco is diving into software licensing. It seems like the right direction, but it's also a major cultural shift for the sales-heavy company.

A rumor of a 26% layoff is just plain 'stupid,' IBM says — but layoffs are still coming.

But don't expect to see him pouring venti lattes at your neighborhood mall.

Was it seasonality? F5 doesn't fully know, but something caused some large orders to miss Q1, which in turn caused F5 shares to dive 15% after-hours.

A10's latest software features Harmony, which happens to be a policy engine but also describes how A10 aims to help with integration of networking functions and services.

The Open vSwitch team has launched Open Virtual Networking, an open source project to add Layer 2 or 3 overlays to OVS natively.

It looks like VMware has the hot hand at the moment, as the company is kicking off 2015 by adding some Cisco distinguished engineers to its roster.

If botnets are so resilient, why not use a similar structure for building regular networks? Ed Amoroso, head honcho of security at AT&T, thinks that's the way to go.