It wasn’t long ago that the enterprise IT landscape was governed by physical data centers, heavily customized servers, and monolithic systems stitched together by bespoke integrations. Uptime was measured in quarterly reports, not by real-time dashboards. Security was defined by firewalls and badge access to data center cages. In that world, infrastructure was capital procured, racked, and slowly evolved over time. But in today’s digital-first economy, where velocity is the new currency and disruption comes from startups as often as from global competitors, infrastructure has transformed from a static asset into a dynamic service layer.