Why Attend
Benefits of Attending
- 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
Who Should Attend
Data center professionals and their business counterparts, including:
- IT operations, data center, and consolidated operations executives
- Storage planners
- Managers
- Project leaders
- Asset managers and planners of data centers
- Vendors involved in developing, marketing, or maintaining products and services for IT operations centers.
Testimonials
“Gartner always puts on a great conference. I’ve been to this event four times. The Gartner presenters are always excellent.”
Terry E. Brush, Staff Consultant, DST Systems
“The Data Center Conference has been a valuable experience because it covers a variety of topics within the data center that I’d otherwise have to attend 2 to 3 events to capture.”
Marc Franck, Information Technology Manager, Clean Water Services, 2nd Gartner Data Center Conference
“Though we’re small, the Gartner Conference helps keep me informed of where IT is going. With constrained funding, we make better purchase and strategic decisions consistent with smart IT practices.”
Duane Whitley, Supervisor, IT Operations & Security, Chelan County PUD, Wenatchee WA
The Gartner Data Center Conference will address your Top 5 Data Center Concerns:
Virtualization Trends – Expect important new content matching your needs. Deeper coverage. Super relevant.
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery – We'll cover it all from policies and best practices to emerging technologies that can change the way you approach BC/DR.
Running a 24x7 Operation – More and more of your business applications are mission-critical, needing to be always on and always ready. See how it can be done most effectively.
Consolidation Trends & Technologies – Virtualization is only one piece of the solution. We'll peel back the layers for a more comprehensive picture.
Reducing Data Center Costs – We'll offer best practices in hardware and software procurement and provide an in-depth view of IT operations to ensure all your assets, including personnel, are used optimally
