Morale was unexpectedly high on the Viaccess-Orca stand at NAB 2022 – fitting with Faultline’s generalized comments on company culture changes in last week’s NAB synopsis piece. VO’s big theme at the show was integrating its suite of TV software services with Google Cloud Anthos, a fully-managed Kubernetes-based platform for managing data and applications. With VO serving pay TV operators, as well as being owned by one, it is important that Anthos aligns with the hybrid cloud strategy. While all of VO’s customers are pushing into the cloud, most still run on-premise environments, so Anthos allows users to manage services over on-prem, public, private, and multi-cloud. We learn, unsurprisingly, that VO’s Google Cloud push is by order of Orange, following…