Sungard Availability Services and Megaport announced a new partnership that will enable Sungard AS data centers worldwide with Software Defined Cloud Interconnection (SDCI) capabilities. These Connected Infrastructure Hubs offer on-demand, scalable and secure connectivity to the world's leading cloud providers, as well as top-tier data centers around the world, to support hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Enterprises are increasingly operating in complex and diverse environmentsâ€"87% of organizations have a hybrid cloud strategy, while 93% have a multi-cloud strategy with an average of five clouds, according to the Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report. At the same time, customer demands on application performance has never been higher. All of which adds pressure on network architecture and performance. Sungard AS' Connected Infrastructure Hubs, premier data centers enabled with Megaport's platform, deliver high-performance, low-latency connectivity to more than 350 service providers, including the world's leading cloud platforms, and access to more than 80 cloud regions from a single data center. That allows organizations to further optimize application performance by streamlining their hybrid IT and multi-cloud landscape. The Megaport Software Defined Network provides greater choice and ease of use for provisioning cloud connectivity and enables predictable, low-latency connections that improve application performance. Businesses can scale bandwidth up and down on-demand, and connect physical and private cloud infrastructure to multiple public cloud providers to support hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. Additionally, Megaport enables cloud-to-cloud connectivity through point and click provisioning, making it possible to move workloads and data between public cloud providers. Traffic flows over a secure, private Layer 2 network for increased security, ensuring it never traverses the open internet and can be encrypted over the network. In addition, customers can enable fault-tolerant and highly available redundant Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions to eliminate single points of failure.