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

Suggested Agendas

Agendas for CIO/Business Leader, Financial Services, Public Sector and Healthcare/Pharmaceutical Professionals

As a CIO/Business Leader, Financial Services, Public Sector, Healthcare/Pharmaceutical Professional, there are certain topics covered at this event that are likely to be of particular interest to you. Please click below on the suggested agendas that you can follow during the event. We hope you find this useful. Please note that this timetable is a suggestion and other presentations will be relevant to you depending on your role and your organization's focus.

• CIO / Business Leader Agenda
• Financial Services Professional Agenda
• Public Sector Professional Agenda
• Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Agenda

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
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Build, Lease or Outsource: How Will You Acquire Your Future Data Center Space?
Speaker: Scott Morrison and Claudio Da Rold, Gartner
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The Future of Infrastructure and Operations: The Engine of Cloud Computing
Speaker: Tom Bittman, Gartner
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Gartner Analyst Videos

Data Center Decisions in the Current Climate
Andrew Butler VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner.
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Data Center Challenges
A video with Andrew Butler VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner.
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Data Center Today
A video with Andrew Butler VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner.
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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

Who Attended Last Year?

View a sample of last year's attending organizations. Download the PDF.

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

Budgets are tight and increasingly IT and business professionals must prove the value of educational conferences before attending. We have pulled together information that will help you demonstrate how attendance at the Gartner Data Center Summit supports your organizational goals. To understand the true value of the Summit - download the (PDF).

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.