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

10. HPE Buys Supercomputer Company Cray for $1.3B, Boosts Its HPC Business

Cray recently won a portion of the U.S. Department of Energy’s $600 million exascale supercomputer contract. Read more

9. Verizon Virtualizes Baseband Functions Using Intel, Nokia vRAN Gear

This trial decoupled hardware and software, which provides more flexibility in where computing operations can take place within the network and enables multi-access edge compute (MEC) and network slicing. Read more

8. Huawei Crackdown Hits Open Source Groups

The U.S. government’s crackdown on Huawei is starting to impact its involvement in standards-defining bodies and open source communities. Read more

7. VMware Snaps Up Another Kubernetes-Focused Startup

Bitnami is the latest target, following on the heels of VMware's acquisition of Heptio earlier this year. Read more

6. Who Wins and Loses if Sprint and T-Mobile Merge?

If Sprint and T-Mobile gain approval from regulators to merge, it will impact infrastructure vendors and virtualization efforts for years. Read more

5. Nutanix, VMware Battle for HCI Revenue, Market Share

With 47.8% market share and $206 million in revenue, Nutanix remains the No. 1 HCI software vendor, according to Gartner’s numbers. But VMware is closing the gap. Read more

4. Confusion Reigns Over One of Huawei’s Worse Weeks

A top Huawei executive has been accused of intellectual property theft and a growing number of major tech firms have cut ties with the company. Read more

3. 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

2. Cisco Routes SD-WAN Through Colocation Facilities for Regional Distributed Offices

The capabilities will allow customers to “tie each branch to enterprise data center databases, SaaS applications, and multi-cloud services while meeting SLAs and application QoE expectations,” says Cisco's Anand Oswal. Read more

1. Thrangrycat Attacks Cisco Switches, Routers, Firewalls

Red Balloon Security disclosed two vulnerabilities in “tens of millions” of Cisco enterprise routers, switches, and firewalls that could allow hackers to remotely attack corporate networks, steal data, and attack other devices connected to the networks. Read more