Despite the enduring chaos 2020 threw down, technology kept communities connected, businesses afloat, and tethered us to some semblance of stability. Here’s our list of the 10 most read articles of 2020, covering the SDxCentral universe of SDN, NFV, and related topics. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the year.

Palo Alto Networks tops the network security vendor market by revenue beating rival Cisco, according to Analysys Mason’s revenue tracker. Read more.

While Cisco says it isn’t aware of any instances in which attackers have exploited the vulnerability, a proof-of-concept exploit code is available. Read more.

HPE reported fiscal 2020 Q2 revenues of $6 billion, down 15% from a year ago, with a drop in revenues across all of its sectors. Read more.

Now that all Cisco employees work remotely, it sees more than 170,000 remote network connections daily across 96 countries and 498 cities. Read more.

Cisco declined to say how many employees will be impacted by the job cuts. Read more.

Several incumbent networking players, including Cisco, Dell Technologies, VMware, Juniper Networks, and Extreme Networks held “multiple meetings” with Big Switch. Read more.

“This is a widespread problem in the cloud,” Palo Alto Network’s Matt Chiodi said. Read more.

A vast majority of employees at several technology firms expressed some level of concern over job security, according to a survey conducted by Blind and parsed through by Dice. Read more.

When complete, the project will see more than 150,000 wired ports and 3,000 additional access points distributed across the 6.5 million-square-foot facility. Read more.

The cuts, which were first reported by Bloomberg, are tied to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Read more.