More and more enterprises are turning to hybrid IT, but many aren’t taking full advantage of their investment.

In this episode of IT Availability Now, Leon Godwin, Principal Cloud Evangelist at Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS) outlines what so many of them are missing out on and offers concrete steps on how organizations can harness all the advantages of hybrid IT. Listen to the full episode to learn:

●        What makes hybrid IT so attractive

●        Strategies for reducing costs and adding more flexible connectivity

●        How to determine if your workloads belong in public cloud, private cloud or on-premises

Brian Fawcett is a Senior Manager of Global Sales Engagement at Sungard AS. With over 15 years of experience in a range of industries, he specializes in forming enterprise-wide global talent and learning development programs. Brian has enriched corporate learning culture by matching organizational vision and core values to curricula, leading to application and impact.

Leon Godwin is the Principal Cloud Evangelist at Sungard AS. As a cloud evangelist, Leon balances the duties of a product marketer with being one of Sungard AS’s direct links to customers. Building a critical mass of support for cloud technologies through thought leadership, enthusiasm and many years of experience, Leon aids customers with complex challenges and helps them adopt creative, robust and efficient cloud solutions 

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BRIAN FAWCETT (BF): Gartner predicted that by 2020, 90% of organizations would adopt hybrid infrastructure services. And they were right. Today hybrid IT is the go-to solution for enterprise IT, but how many companies are truly maximizing their investment? 

I'm your host Brian Fawcett, and this is IT Availability Now, the show that tells stories of business resilience for the people who keep the digital world available.

Hybrid IT success is about more than just deciding which workloads to run in the cloud and which to deploy on your own infrastructure. 

On this episode of IT Availability Now, Leon Godwin, Principal Cloud Evangelist at Sungard AS, joins us to discuss the benefits of the hybrid strategy and what steps businesses must take to get the most out of their hybrid IT.  

Hi Leon, welcome back to the show.  

LEON GODWIN (LG): Hi Brian, thanks. I'm excited to be here.  

BF: So let's start with the million dollar question here. What makes hybrid IT so appealing?

LG: Good question. Businesses need a cloud solution that's agile, scalable and cost effective, but they also need that dependability of performance and the control of their security and compliance