The future of telecommunications is cloud-native engineering

The writing is on the wall. It is time to embrace cloud-native technologies to accelerate innovation and service. According to a recent Gartner report, cloud-native platforms will serve as the foundation for more than 95% of new digital initiatives by 2025. That figure is more than double the less than 40% share of cloud-native platforms in 2021.

But the adoption of cloud-native solutions isn’t just about the technology. It is also about new markets and business opportunities to accelerate growth by providing global trade management, faster time to market, and greater agility, flexibility, scalability, and service availability.

The infrastructure transformation from legacy to cloud-native is perceived as crucial for creating a broader, more expansive ecosystem, where technology vendors, network operators, developers, and hyper-scale cloud providers work together to launch new business opportunities and generate new revenue streams.

Today’s typical CSP cloud faces many challenges, such as more effort required to manage large monolithic virtual network functions, too many manual tasks, complexity, migration challenges, security and privacy issues, latency, vendor lock-in, etc. All of these challenges can be mitigated by transitioning to cloud-native practices.

By adopting cloud-native engineering, CSPs can leverage cloud-native services such as containerization and orchestration, micro-services architecture, server-less architecture, DevOps CI/CD, observability, analysis, and many others. In addition, the transition can increase operational efficiency by designing and developing scalable, agile, cost-effective applications and running them in dynamic environments.

To implement efficient network functions and technologies with cloud-native solutions, CSPs must be open to the cloud approach and flexible, scalable, reusable, shared cloud-native platforms that are easy to maintain, upgrade, and scale.

For an in-depth look at what telecommunications companies must do to make the cloud-native transition, download the Capgemini Cloud-Native Capgemini Engineering white paper here.

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Authors:

Chhavi Chaturvedi DevSecOps Engineer, Capgemini Engineering Chhavi is part of the Product Services and Support team at Capgemini Engineering. She focuses on developing DevOps and AWS security solutions and delivering them to customers. Chhavi also has experience in public cloud security. She earned a master’s degree in cybersecurity from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India.

Sunny Kumar Program Manager, Senior Cloud and DevOps Architect, Capgemini Engineering Sunny is part of the Product Services and Support team at Capgemini Engineering. He is responsible for helping customers with their cloud and DevOps transformations.