Over the past couple of years, there’s been a seismic increase in the global demand for cloud service provider infrastructure and services.

Whether society realizes it or not, most of our activities online — from work to play and everything else in between — are reliant on web products hosted on the cloud. This soaring demand, however, hasn’t always meant increased revenue for the operators that provide these services.

“When I look at the industry itself, unfortunately, all of that huge demand is not translating into revenue, because as an industry, the revenue is still flat-lining,” said Amol Phadke (pictured), managing director and head of global telecom industry solutions at Google Cloud. “In fact, the forecasted revenue globally for the industry over the next 12 months is three to 5% negative on revenue, right? So one starts to think how come there is so much demand over the last two years, post-pandemic, and that’s not translating to revenue?”

Phadke spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the Mobile World Congress event. They discussed current developments in the DevOps landscape with relation to edge computing, 5G and Google Anthos. (* Disclosure below.)

Anthos partners with CSPs as a development platform

Over the past decade, there’s been a lot of introspection at Google — particularly from a solutions standpoint. In time, the company has taken all of its internal technology underpinnings and externalized them to serve an outside audience.

“We came to market a couple of years ago with Anthos. We recognized … the world is moving to multicloud hybrid cloud. We needed to provide a common platform that the developer community can utilize through microservices and API. And that platform had to, by definition, work not just from Google Cloud, but any cloud. It could work on any public cloud, it can work on CSP’s private cloud, and of course, on Google Cloud,” said Phadke, describing the platform’s originating circumstances.

Anthos is now partnering with cloud service providers as a development platform, allowing them to layer all kinds of applications on top — with support for 5G edge. The entirety of a client’s development community can then be woven seamlessly into the Anthos fabric, according to Phadke.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Mobile World Congress event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Mobile World Congress. Neither TelcoDR Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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