Vodafone is deploying its recently developed Unified Performance Management (UPM) system across its 11 European countries of operation, to reduce its own costs and provide a common platform for boosting performance and resilience of emerging 5G-based edge compute services. The operator recruited Google Cloud and data analytics firm Cardinality.io to support this exercise, not out of necessity, it argued, but to avoid diverting internal technical staff from their work on critical operational and customer-facing tasks. This includes development of new 5G and edge compute services on a pan-European basis, where the operator will compete increasingly with other multinational telcos such as Orange, Telefónica and Deutsche Telekom, as well hyperscalers and systems integrators. Vodafone said the cloud-native UPM platform will…