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

While competing vendors focus on secure access, VMware looks to build out a robust service edge. Read more.

Nokia’s XDR platform gives operators a way to monetize new security services such as 5G slice monitoring, endpoint protection for enterprise IoT devices, and identity and access management. Read more.

“There is no magic that an Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft could enable because the underlying software architecture is absolutely flawed. It needs to evolve," Rakuten Mobile CTO Tareq Amin said. Read more.

“Open RAN is nothing but bringing the RAN in with open interfaces. At the end, that’s all it is,” Mavenir CEO Pardeep Kohli said. Read more.

Verizon is the latest U.S. carrier to roll out a managed SASE offering. The service is built on Versa Networks' SD-WAN and Zscaler's cloud-based security functionality. Read more.

XDR is “something that we can do really, really uniquely to stop these very sophisticated attacks,” said VMware SVP Tom Gillis ahead of the company’s Security Connect event. Read more.

The shakeup marks the first major restructuring since former VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger was installed as CEO and the latest high-profile departure from VMware. Read more.

The routers, which are available starting this month, aim to simplify enterprise requirements for IoT connectivity at the network edge. Read more.

"U.S. export control applies to some of our products. It doesn’t apply to a lot of our products, so nothing changes when the deal closes,” Arm CEO Simon Segars said of U.S. trade policy. Read more.

Stephen Augustus was previously a senior open source engineer at VMware and has a long history in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Kubernetes communities. Read more.