Check out our top 10 articles for June 2019, covering the SDxCentral universe of SDN, NFV, and related topics. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the month.

10. HPE Partners With Google Cloud, Pledges Entire Portfolio ‘as-a-service’ by 2022
HPE’s consumption-based infrastructure and services portfolio, GreenLake, boasts more than $2.8 billion in total contract value and more than 600 customers. Read more

9. Exclusive: Cisco SVP Jeff Reed Talks Firewall of the Future
The vendor also updated its security policy management tool to support additional platforms — with AWS coming soon — and added cloud-based logging with analytics. Read more

8. Cisco CEO Takes High Road on 5G, China
Besides macro radio access network equipment, "we have virtually everything else you need to build 5G networks,” Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said at Cisco Live. Read more

7. Riverbed Siphons Versa for a Stronger SD-WAN Flow
Despite the Versa deal, Riverbed plans to continue to offer its SteelConnect platform while leveraging its new partner for “larger scale enterprise deployments.” Read more

6. Equinix Rolls Out Network Edge VNFs With Cisco, Juniper, and Palo Alto Networks
The VNFs are initially launching in five locations: London; Amsterdam; Singapore; California's Silicon Valley; and Ashburn, Virginia. Read more

5. Intel Buys Barefoot Networks, Boosts Data Center Interconnect
The acquisition follows a spate of recent silicon vendor acquisitions and comes as Intel exited the 5G business — and reportedly lost a bidding war with rival Nvidia for another networking interconnect superstar, Mellanox. Read more

4. CloudGenix and Versa to Cisco: Our SD-WAN Is Superior
“There’s many companies that call themselves SD-WAN companies, but candidly they’re service providers leveraging somebody else’s tech,” says Versa Networks CEO Kelly Ahuja. Read more

3. Co-Founder and CTO JR Rivers Leaves Cumulus Networks
CEO Josh Leslie confirmed Rivers’ departure: “As a company co-founder, he has been a tremendous asset to Cumulus from the very beginning and has helped the company become the innovative leader it is today.” Read more

2. Nutanix’s Sunil Potti Leaves for Google Amid Revenue Miss
Nutanix’s chief product and development officer is the latest Silicon Valley exec to jump ship for Google Cloud as former Google Cloud CTO Brian Stevens joins Nutanix’s board of directors. Read more

1. Aviatrix CEO Mullaney Challenges Cisco, VMware: ‘Carnage Is Coming’
The former CEO at Nicira and SVP of networking and security at VMware came out of retirement to lead the public cloud networking startup. He calls it the “biggest opportunity I have ever seen in my life.” Read more