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.

10. Verizon CEO: Network Virtualization Is 60% Complete

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.

9. Google Cloud’s 5 Boldest Moves of 2019

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.

8 . Cisco Rolls Out New Silicon, Router for ‘Internet for the Future’

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.

7. Gap Narrows Between Azure, AWS, GCP in Cockroach Labs 2020 Report

The report measured AWS, GCP, and Azure on CPU, network, and storage while highlighting performance trade-offs with each provider. Read more.

6. VMware vSphere Key to Slicing Red Hat’s Kubernetes Head Start

“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.

5. Google Cloud Beefs Up Security With Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet

Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud pledged to jointly develop a new multi-cloud security framework. Read more.

4. Juniper CTO Bikash Koley Calls It Quits

The company today said it hired Raj Yavatkar as the new CTO. Like Koley, Yavatkar previously headed cloud networking at Google. Read more.

3. VMware, Silver Peak Lead SD-WAN Pack; Cisco, Riverbed Lose Ground

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.

2. Fortinet Leapfrogs Cisco With 21,000 SD-WAN Customers

Late last month Cisco announced it had 20,000 SD-WAN customers spread across its Viptela and Meraki SD-WAN platforms. Read more.

1. Aviatrix CEO: SD-WAN Is Dead. AWS Killed It

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.