Benefits of Attending

• Address the big IT infrastructure and operations concerns for 2009 - virtualization and consolidation best practices, management technology & processes, business continuity management, server consolidation, performance management, and much more.
• Leverage the most accessible body of research and market intelligence no IT infrastructure and operations.
• Explore the key virtualization trends you need to know over the next 5 years.
• Measure your performance and progress with a wealth of best practices and network with hundreds of your peers.
• Get familiar with available technology. Compare solutions and see what it takes to implement them.

Who Should Attend

IT Professionals: CIOs, architects, IT operations and data center managers, service desk managers, IT infrastructure and best practices leaders, business continuity and storage planners.

Business Executives: Managers, project leaders and planners, technology providers involved in developing, marketing, and maintaining products and services to improve IT infrastructure and operations manageability. Anyone interested in strengthening business through improved IT services.

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.

Justification Kit

With these justification tools, we've made it as convenient as possible to justify your investment to attend and present the ROI you've received post-event.


Pre-Conference

• Customizable Letter to Your Manager: A Word template with a cost/benefit analysis.
• Justification Tips
• Top 10 Reasons to Attend a Gartner Event

During the Conference

• ROI Worksheet: A Word template for productive note-taking onsite for your sessions, Analyst One-on-One Briefings and Face-to-Face Sponsor Meetings.

Post-Conference

• Customizable Trip Report: A Word template to help you easily report your ROI from the conference.
• Post-Event Brief: A PDF that highlights what was new and notable, key takeaways, what attendees asked about, interactive polling results, exhibit showcase highlights and more.