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Benefits of Attending

• Acquire the most up-to-date, independent Gartner research
• Benchmark your current strategy against the latest thinking and advice
• Share you experiences with your peers from across Europe
• Hear visionary keynotes from the industry’s top thinkers
• Learn from Data Center pioneers in a series of in-depth case studies
• Evaluate many of the key software and service providers in the infrastructure market
• Attack your toughest challenges in complimentary One-on-One sessions with Gartner analysts

Who Should Attend

Data center professionals and their business counterparts, including:

• IT operations, data center, and consolidated operations executives
• Storage planners
• Managers, project leaders, and asset managers and planners of data centers
• Vendors involved in developing, marketing, or maintaining products and services for IT operations centers

Testimonials

“This event is a must for data centre managers and IT infrastructure managers!”
Frans Oosterbos, ICT Architecture, La Post

“The summit brought together all aspects of the data centre and provided me with the information I need for decisions soon to be taken.”
Margret Hayden Is Infrastructure Manager, ESB International Grid

“Good event for understanding the latest technologies & challenges facing infrastructure.”
Phil Chissell Infrastructure Architect, RWE NPower

The Gartner Data Center Summit will address your top 4 Data Center issues:

• Virtualization is affecting the acquisition and deployment of IT infrastructure in many forms – servers, storage, PCs and networks. In such an explosively growing and evolving market, how do executives make the right investment decisions?
• New form factors like blades, and more parallel applications like Oracle RAC and grid computing, are challenging the natural order of scale up computing for most business critical applications. How and when should these new paradigms be considered?
• Environmental responsibilities and the fundamental need to minimize mounting power costs are a powerful new driver in the data center. The probability of new government legislation increases the number of compliance and community responsibility worries for all data center executives. Meanwhile, vendors are fast jumping on the power/cooling bandwagon as "green computing" becomes the next new marketing buzzword.
• The many discontinuous trends that are changing the way that technology is deployed are also placing great burdens on platform and data center management. Software licensing conventions are being challenged, sourcing and hosting strategy is under ongoing debate and best practices for administering the data center are being radically reformed through the need for ever better change management and administration policy.