👉 Hosted engineering refers to the practice of outsourcing the management, maintenance, and operation of IT infrastructure to a third-party service provider, known as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) vendor. This approach allows organizations to focus on their core business activities without the need to manage hardware, software, and networking components directly. The vendor handles tasks such as server provisioning, security updates, network configuration, and data storage, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance. By leveraging hosted engineering, businesses can reduce capital expenditures, enhance operational efficiency, and gain greater flexibility to adapt to changing technological demands.