IT Availability Now

How to build a cloud culture and other frequently asked cloud questions

Sungard Availability Services Season 3 Episode 13

Sixty-three percent of businesses are now considered heavy cloud users, running over 25% of their workloads in the cloud. Yet, as companies become further immersed in the cloud, there’s still a lot they don’t know.

On this episode of IT Availability Now, host Servaas Verbiest and guest Erik Krogstad, Senior National Cloud Architect at Sungard AS, discuss questions customers frequently ask about the cloud. Listen to this full episode to learn:

  • How to build a successful cloud culture
  • How to address the networking component when implementing cloud deployments
  • How to determine the right cloud for your organization


As Director of Product Field Strategy at Sungard AS, Servaas Verbiest assists businesses and organizations in realizing the full potential of cloud computing by thinking strategically, deploying rapidly, and acting as an ambassador for the cloud ecosystem. While at Sungard AS, Servaas has worked with more than 1,000 unique clients across multiple industries on complex application deployments, re-platforming, public cloud integrations, private cloud deployments, application lifecycle, and hybrid cloud model development.

Erik Krogstad is the Senior National Cloud Architect at Sungard AS and serves as lead for the company’s Cloud Center of Excellence. With more than 20 years in the IT industry, Erik has extensive experience in designing and transforming IT infrastructures and architectures to meet the business and IT needs of fortune 1000 companies. 

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