Benefits of Attending

• Implement new cost reduction and cost optimization strategies.
• Address the issues of an aging data center infrastructure.
• Link business and IT plans and deliver projects that enable growth.
• Increase agility and service quality while reducing costs.
• Manage and operate a world-class data center operation with hyper-efficiency.
• Tactically and strategically position yourself to help support your business going forward.
• Examine the newest virtualization technologies and better understand the management challenges they bring with them in the areas of operations, disaster recovery, and security.
• Assess the practicality and timing of emerging storage architectures.
• Gain new insights into power and cooling solutions, greening the data center, and facilities considerations.
• Better understand the impact and implications of cloud computing across the data center.
• Implement sound business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
• Make wise investments in your people, processes and technologies.
• Deepen your tactical knowledge across all aspects that affect your data center.
• Strength your strategic vision of where you want to lead your data center in this next decade.

Who Should Attend

Individuals with specific responsibility for, or within, their organization's data center. This includes VP / Manager / Director / Leader / Planner of...

• Infrastructure, IT Operations, Data Center, Storage, IT Architecture, Asset Management, Facilities, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery.
• And vendors involved in developing, marketing, or maintaining products and services for IT operations centers.

Who Attended Last Year?

Delegates from the following organizations attended Gartner's Data Center Conference in 2008.
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Testimonials

"It's a necessary guide to define strategies in my company"

"Great opportunity to learn industry directions, best practices, and meet peers from other companies"

"Very helpful in providing insight into virtualization"

"An excellent immersion in really dealing with the T of IT"

"Excellent exchange of information & networking"

"Excellent source of knowledge to help me make decisions"

"Helped me a lot - very knowledgeable analysts with great presentation skills"

"Very practical and hands on"

"As a first time attendee, I was impressed"

"Right on the money"

"Extremely enlightening"

"Good relevant content"

"Very well organized. Gartner 'people' are accessible & helpful. Great vendor selection"

"Great conference to get all of your data center info"

"Well worth the time and expense to attend"

"The place for strategic and tactical advice"

"Excellent content in track sessions"

"Very useful to come up to speed on the current hot topics and how they are being addressed"

"Presentation of solutions that have traction. Statistics that can be used in presentations to build a case"

"It gives me a good overview of the IT industry and best practices"

"Very informative"

"Very good source of information on current problems and good references to possible solutions & providers"

"It is very stimulating. There is very good insight from the Gartner presenters"

"Excellent. Get my head above water and reflect on where am and where I should be going"

"Very intense-covering broad array of topics"

"Good broad coverage of the Data center and IT industries run by non vendor to provide best advice and a forum for networking with industry peers and other industries for BKMs"

"Content rich and strategic"

"Great way to see how others are managing their data centers"

"Opportunity to verify the direction we need to take in our centers"

"State of the art, up to date knowledge"

"Provides a look outside of the box and into the future. It helps confirm your direction with technology"

"This was my 1st Gartner conference. It was like drinking from a firehose"

"Best use of my time and worth the trip"

"Content was spot-on. Wealth of information"

"As much quality information as you could pack into 3.5 days"

"World-Class"

"Strategic, real-world, valuable"

"Great resource to tap into industry trends & hear expert opinions & get long term insight"

"Broad view of industry - not vendor specific, consistently good presenters"

"Gartner vendor agnostic research; summary of coming trends; best practices from early adapter"

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.