Traditional on-premise IT resources are costly to maintain and scale. Hardware is particularly difficult to scale down as well, so that expensive but unused IT resources become cumbersome in terms of overhead. Cloud providers ensure enterprises use and pay for only what they need, driving improved cost savings over time. Partnerships streamline adoption of new capabilities, relieving enterprises of costly new technology adoption as well.

As business requirements scale up or down, enterprises can grow their IT resources in tandem at a fraction of the effort required when expanding on-premise resources. Enterprises needn’t worry about a lack of IT resources as they execute new business initiatives, respond to growing customer demands, or take substantial steps in growing their business. These companies can easily scale up or down specific cloud-native resources and capabilities as business needs evolve, ensuring they always have optimal IT capabilities within reach.

Enterprises too often underdeliver in response to urgent business requirements and opportunities due to IT limitations. Cloud-native solutions mean enterprises can adapt their IT capabilities at a moment’s notice, leveraging the resources their cloud providers already have on hand—whether those resources are part of their original service agreements or not. Access to the cloud can mean the difference between successfully acting on game changing opportunities and losing out to competitors.

Cloud-native technologies like digital meeting rooms, project management tools, and web-based applications are becoming the norm in modern industries. These capabilities dramatically enhance collaboration as employees, partners, and customers access resources from any location, at any time via internet connectivity. Cloud providers ensure enterprises have access to the latest capabilities as well as these technologies continue to evolve and improve.

Traditional IT capabilities are limited by the compute capabilities of on-premise resources. Meanwhile, cloud computing allows for near limitless sophistication in terms of the capabilities to which modern enterprise have access. With the right business case and internal review, even small-to-midsize companies can launch highly-sophisticated IT operations, leveling the playing field when competing against larger competitors in their respective markets.

As modern workforces become more mobile and remote, cloud-native solutions provide superior computing and collaborative capabilities, wherever team members choose to sit. Cloud-native security means remote and mobile employees can access enterprise resources safely, often through a company-provided or even personal device—without any loss in terms of access to resources or to their colleagues.

As enterprise data resources continue to grow at exponential rates, cloud storage means companies needn’t concern themselves over the size and management of those resources. They can work with their providers to quickly scale up storage, focusing their efforts on the sophisticated capabilities those data will support instead. This applies as digital files become more sophisticated and numerous as well.

Enterprise companies needn’t miss out on the latest software updates and addons, not to mention new cloud-native software that might be costly and time consuming to adopt and execute via on-premise solutions. Cloud providers remain up to date on the most recent software developments, enhancing their expertise and providing these resources to enterprise clients on demand instead.