Check out our top 10 articles for November 2021 covering the SDxCentral universe of cloud, telecom, security, and networking. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the month.

10. Armis Ranked Fastest Growing Cybersecurity Software Company

Deloitte ranked the 500 firms based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2017 to 2020. Armis, No. 25 on the list, grew 8,826% over that period. Read more.

9. Is Open RAN Too Little, Too Late for 5G?

It may sound hyperbolic, but open RAN could be the most divisive technology to confront the wireless industry in many years, perhaps decades. Read more.

8. Ericsson’s $6.2B Vonage Acquisition Mystifies Analysts

Some analysts describe Ericsson’s purchase of Vonage as a surprise. “On paper it looks a little bit like square peg, round hole,” analyst Zeus Kerravala said. Read more.

7. VMware, Dell Complete Spinoff Deal

Under the agreement, Dell Technologies shed its 81% stake in VMware, which is now a $64 billion independent software company. Read more.

6. Palo Alto Networks Teams With Siemens on Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Under the agreement, Siemens will sell its Ruggedcom networking and security platforms with Palo Alto Networks’ VM-Series firewalls built in. Read more.

5. Xilinx Challenges Nvidia's Lock on HPC Market

The chipmaker claims its Alveo FPGAs can go toe to toe with Nvidia's GPU-based accelerators while offering greater compute density, power efficiency, and integrated networking. Read more.

4. Juniper CTO Touts DPU Breakthrough on Nvidia BlueField

The networking giant's Edge Services Platform provides lifecycle management, observability, and troubleshooting services for DPU-accelerated data centers. Read more.

3. Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point Lead Gartner’s Firewall Magic Quadrant

“It becomes very important to have complete or comprehensive zero trust across the enterprise,” Palo Alto Networks CPO Lee Klarich said. Read more.

2. Juniper CEO Challenges Cisco, Arista on ‘Openness,’ ‘Intelligence’

“​​I challenge Arista’s Cloud Vision to work on Cisco infrastructure or Cisco's ACI to work on Arista switches. It can't be done,” CEO Rami Rahim said. Read more.

1. IBM Divorcee Kyndryl Inks Microsoft Partnership

The companies aim to accelerate hybrid-cloud adoption, advance artificial intelligence, enhance cybersecurity resilience, and modernize enterprise IT operations. Read more.