Just 10 years ago, the common way to manage your infrastructure for many enterprises and large organizations was to do it themselves – something referred to as “on prem,” for on premises. As you can imagine, there are a lot of headaches that come along with managing your infrastructure this way. You need to have someone on call all the time incase something goes wrong. If a piece of hardware breaks, you either need to keep backups on hand or order them and hope they come quickly. And you may be at the mercy of certain events, like the iOS update from 2013 that took down college networks across the country. Luckily in 2022, there’s a better way: hyperscalers.