Gartner Data Center Summit

Virtual Track – “Optimizing Costs and Making Savings within the Data Center”
Most organizations have been and are feeling the cost pressures more this year than ever before. In this track we provide short term, medium term and long term actionable advice on how to optimize costs. This track will identify content in the four main tracks that provide this advice in the infrastructure, software, services, applications, IT Operations and other areas.

Key Technology Areas

For 2009, Gartner will be offering advice via presentations on vendor selection, tool selection and assessment, real-world case study examples, process updates, best-practice cases, maturity models, disruptive technologies, technology trends, market activity and development in the following key technology areas:

• IT procurement and contract negotiation
• Outsourcing and hosted data centers
• Cloud Computing / Infrastructure as a Service
• Energy efficient data centers and low power consumption
• Configuration management
• Organization and staffing for infrastructure and operations
• IT operations management
• IT Operations Process Automation
• Application Level SLAs
• Asset Management
• Green IT implications and opportunities
• Virtualized servers / virtualization tactics
• ITIL strategy and best practice
• Data protection and back up
• Business continuity and disaster recovery
• Multicore
• Client computing architectures
• Storage trends and technology
• Enterprise networking
• Rack / blade servers

Benefits of Attending

Gartner Data Center Summit is the distillation of Gartner’s most recent research on the data center and related topics, compressed into one event. The result is one of the most up-to-date, thorough and informed assessments of the data center available in business today. You’ll not only get the latest independent insight, but also hone your skills, discover the latest solutions and network with data center leaders from across Europe.
Through relevant presentations and interactions, learn how to:

• Deliver quality of service through improved response time, integrity and reliability
• Support more complex applications and their burgeoning storage needs
• Achieve better asset utilization through virtualization
• Create cost-effective storage infrastructures
• Reduce costs while responding with greater agility to dynamic business requirements
• Implement sound business continuity and disaster recovery plans
• Understand the complex server marketplace from Windows to z/OS
• Move towards a real-time infrastructure

What to Expect from a Gartner Summit

Listen and view presentations from last year’s Summit.

Virtualization Changes Virtually Everything
Speaker: Tom Bittman and Philip Dawson, Gartner

Build, Lease or Outsource: How Will You Acquire Your Future Data Center Space?
Speaker: Scott Morrison and Claudio Da Rold, Gartner

The Future of Infrastructure and Operations: The Engine of Cloud Computing
Speaker: Tom Bittman, Gartner

Who Should Attend

The Summit is designed to answer the needs of individuals with specific responsibility for, or within, their organization’s data center and a desire to advance their professional development, strategic knowledge and advanced insight and control within that role. The core of the audience will have roles equivalent to:
Head / VP / Manager / Director / Leader / Planner of…

• Infrastructure
• IT Operations
• Data Center
• Storage
• IT Architecture
• Asset Management

Testimonials

Testimonials from Previous Delegates
“The Data Center Summit came at exactly the right time for our organization. The content and delivery were as always excellent.” – CIO, DSTL
“A fantastic opportunity to speak one-on-one with the world’s experts about my individual issues – an excellent Gartner Summit.” – IT Consultant, Fife Council
“This Summit has changed the way I’m looking at Virtualization. From a resistant, I became a big supporter.” – IT Project Leader, Tenneco
“The one-on-one analyst meeting gave me some real life best practice and food for thought – Gartner brought the rest of the world to my doorstep.” – Technical Architect, Unilever
“I came here wanting to learn more on how to integrate Virtualization into my capacity planning. I will go home with not just that, but a whole lot of other knowledge which gives me a clearer picture of where I should take my company’s IT.” – IT Manager, Entropay

Summit Value

Every Gartner Event is designed to give you practical, relevant, and immediately applicable ways to lower IT costs, deliver more business value with IT, and achieve greater returns from every IT investment – including the one you make with us to attend.
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