Check out our top 10 articles for March 2021 covering the SDxCentral universe of SDN, NFV, and related topics. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the month.

10. Orca Security Banks $210M to Battle Palo Alto Networks

The startup has spent the last two years building a comprehensive cloud security platform “that actually works,” and it plans to use the new investment to scale the company. Read more.

9. VMware Buys Mesh7, Joins Cloud-Native App Security Feeding Frenzy

The deal bolsters VMware’s growing security portfolio and also reflects the increasing importance of securing microservices and cloud-native applications. Read more.

8. VMware Ties SD-WAN Into Azure vWAN, Edge Zones

VeloCloud customers can now use Azure's private network backbone as an alternative to MPLS or broadband. Read more.

7. AT&T CTO Reaffirms Commitment to Open Source Infrastructure

"This is really the foundation of everything we do, and part of this really important foundation is open source technology,” AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch said. Read more.

6. Cloudflare SASE Magically Solidifies VMware, Aruba SD-WAN

The new service, dubbed Magic WAN, is essentially a software-defined underlay designed to replace slow and expensive MPLS links. Read more.

5. McAfee Sells Enterprise Security Biz for $4B

About a year ago, STG bought security vendor RSA from Dell Technologies for a little over $2 billion. Read more.

4. AT&T Taps Fortinet for Managed SASE

AT&T tapped Fortinet for its first managed secure access service edge offering and plans to add other SASE partners in the year ahead. Read more.

3. Cisco Reveals Private 5G Enterprise Vision

“We really think that simplicity wins, so we’ve been working with leading carriers and leading enterprises just to understand how we can simplify it,” Cisco's Jonathan Davidson said. Read more.

2. CrowdStrike, Trend Micro Face Off on XDR

Is next-gen XDR already a thing? CrowdStrike and Trend Micro square off on this, because if the security industry has an acronym addiction, it also has a “next-gen” problem. Read more.

1. Oracle’s Ellison Digs at SAP; Investors Not Impressed

The Oracle CTO used most of the vendor's latest earnings call to tout its "wins" against rival SAP. Read more.