Your network should not be a bottleneck to innovation. Your IT infrastructure should not limit the quality of the apps you’re running, or the speed of your deployments. This was pie-in-the-sky thinking when hardware was king. Your possibilities were hobbled by the physical limitations of your network and your data centers and there was only so much bandwidth and so many servers you could buy. When you ran out of capacity, you had to build out your infrastructure or lease additional equipment and bandwidth from a third party.