Infrastructure is the foundation of all growth initiatives within an enterprise. At the same time, owning infrastructure is a tedious and expensive affair, and it’s even worse for smaller organizations and start-ups. There are many challenges surrounding infrastructure ownership:
- • Overprovisioning of infrastructure leads to heavy capital expenditure and crunches cash flow
- • Under-provisioning infrastructure limits the ability to try out new and innovative technology stacks
- • Infrastructure maintenance is a costly operating expenditure (in terms of people, electricity, safety, connectivity, software licensing, backups, and more)
- • On-demand scaling, either up or down, is impossible
- • Related procurement is generally slow and requires good planning and projections