Agenda
Refreshed and redesigned to answer the most pressing needs of Infrastructure & Operations professionals, this Summit is a full two days of "need to have" information. The Gartner Data Center Summit delivers genuine benefit and clear improvements in efficiency and effectiveness. For any individual wanting to be a true leader in the Data Center field and focused on showing ROI to their senior executives, the Summit falls into the category of 'mission critical expenditure'.
- Virtualization and Cloud Computing
- Storage trends
- Server technology and innovation
- Strategic vendor management
- Client computing architectures
Comprehensive Tracks and Sessions
The majority of the agenda is made up of Gartner analyst sessions — research-driven presentations that focus on the issues that matter most in IT today. Leveraging the latest research collected from organizations worldwide, analyst sessions provide real-world information that will help you make better decisions and drive more successful initiatives.
Our Agenda will feature comprehensive tracks to drill down on your hottest topics, with track sessions tagged to help you create a customized agenda based on your role, experience level and key focus.
- Data Center Cost-Optimization
- Virtualization and Cloud Computing
- Consolidation Trends, Directions and Technologies
- Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
- Alternative Delivery Models for Data Centers
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Special Sessions
In addition to our comprehensive tracks, our Agenda also features several special sessions providing opportunities to learn from and interact with Gartner analysts, industry experts and peers, and top solution providers:
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Keynote Sessions
Typically presented by non-Gartner industry leaders, these plenary sessions are designed to be entertaining and thought-provoking.
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Workshops
Presented by Gartner or guest experts, these intimate workshops provide an opportunity to drill down on specific "how to" topics in an extended, small group environment. Sessions designed for end users only. Registration required.
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End-User Case Studies
Gartner invites a number of end users to personally present leading-edge case studies and answer questions.
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Solution Provider Sessions
In these moderated panels, vendors and end users share experiences and "lessons learned" from real implementations.
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Analyst One-on-Ones
Sit privately for 30 minutes with a Gartner analyst specializing in the topic you'd like to discuss. Many attendees tell us that a one-on-one session is worth the price of admission, all by itself.
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Analyst-User Roundtables
Hear how your colleagues from various industries tackle problems similar to yours. These small group discussions provide an informal setting for you and your peers to share insight, challenges and concerns on today's hottest topics.
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Town Hall Sessions
At these lively open Q&A sessions, attendees pose tough questions to a broad panel of Gartner analysts representing selected research areas.
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Summit Opening and Welcome Presentation
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Gartner Keynote I: Top 10 Trends and How They Will Impact Data Centers and IT
Strategic Planners have long realized that efficient planning must be accomplished by looking from the outside in. There are internal trends, market trends and societal trends rapidly converging, and many of these will have dramatic effects on data centers and infrastructure and operations planning. Will virtualization and big data continue to be the key focal areas of IT, or will new mobile platforms, tablets and context aware applications take front stage? And what will be the impact of social networks and the growing voice of the collective on new employees, and how will that impact IT? How will cloud computing, fabric based systems and the relentless drive for density and power efficiency effect data centers? This presentation will highlight these and other crucial trends to watch over the next five years.
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Guru Keynote: Cloud control: Making practical decisions for your business - Case studies in practical cloud provision
What are the trends, drivers and market indicators of the way in which we work is changing and how technology affects how we interact in a working environment. How can we as data centre managers and IT operations understand these changes and adapt our working environments to account for them. - Social technology: trends, ways technology is affecting work, play and behavior - What leading organizations are doing in Cloud provision, for example: UK Government, Microsoft, CISCO, IBM and Fujistsu - Difference between private and public clouds Transitions from Private to Public cloud How do people make the decision to move from private to public?
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An I&O Perspective on MegaVendors: A Decade of Adjacency Plays, Partnerships and Divorces Beckons
Market consolidation continues. New alliances have formed, old pacts are shattered, and existing providers have jumped into new categories. What’s more, many of the tacit rules under which these providers once operated have been discarded. The implications are significant. Here’s a critical overview of the seismic changes that have occurred in the market, designed to help you fine-tune your vendor strategy so that you can mitigate risk and maximize value.
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Gartner Closing Locknote
High points and key take-aways from the 2011 EMEA Data Center Summit.
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Closing Keynote: Navigating the Exponential Future - How to Think Long-Term in Times of Turbulent Change
We live in an age where technology increasingly behaves like magic, where globalization wreaks havoc on old structures and ideas and where all our assumptions about how the world works and where it's heading are continually challenged, even crushed. This is the world in which leaders are expected to make long-term bets on strategies, technology shifts and future customer behavior. To call it a challenge is an understatement.
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Emirates NBD Data Center Consolidation
Dubai-based EmiratesNBD bank consolidated five data centers into two following the biggest banking merger in the MiddleEast. The data center consolidation project involved over 1000 servers which were physically moved across locations. About 100 applications were migrated in bundles over a period of 12 months. With a balanced approach towards risk, cost and available migration window, the project was successfully completed with minimal business disruption.
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Building a Tier-IV Data Center — A Perspective From an Insider
Building a new data center today is not an easy task. Add the implications of scale and Uptime Institute Tier-IV certification to the pot, additional factors such as TIA-942 and various other global best-practice influences - the challenge takes on even greater dimensions and complexities than originally anticipated. This presentation aims to provide delegates with a perspective from an insider who was involved in such a project. The focus will be on the experiences of the presenter during the various phases of the entire project. The presentation covers the following: planning, design, building and establishing the data center, integrated commissioning programme and certification.
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Data Center Optimization
Learn how GE developed a global data center strategy that optimized the use of existing assets, upgraded the security and availability of mission critical systems and positioned the business to get ahead of the “Cloud” phenomena.
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Transforming Infrastructure Delivery
Nomura acquired Lehman Brothers’ European and Asian operations in September 2008. In just twelve months, a new infrastructure strategy that supported the integrated business’ operating model had to be defined and executed. The new strategy was business led and radically transformed infrastructure delivery. Success was achieved by maintaining close dialogue with the business, empowering the team to design and deliver at speed and by partnering with strategic vendors engaged from design through to execution.
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ITIL in the Data Center: Rolling out IT Processes in the Facilities World
A case study on how facility providers and building engineers learn about incident-, problem- and change management. Rollout of ITIL processes in the real estate world and making them stick. Gaining buy-in from management at all levels to support the processes.
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Cloud and the New Approach to Public Sector IT in the UK
The Coalition Government’s Change Agenda: A Government for a New society, new approaches to government programmes and acitivities – localism, transparency, responsibility, efficiency, the digital agenda, the green agenda. Bigger Society - Smaller IT. What the government is trying to do with IT to deliver its new social and economic agenda, where have we come from and where are we going, what does this mean for the public sector and citizens, what does this mean for the IT industry. Is it working - can it succeed? Is it real or is it hype? Where are the programmes that prove the intent. Where are the examples that prove it can work?
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Data Center Maturity Model
The Green Grid has developed the Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM) to outline the roadmap to improve the energy efficiency and sustainability of your data center and IT portfolio. The DCMM is split by area such that users can benchmark their current performance, determine their levels of maturity, and identify the ongoing steps and innovations necessary to achieve greater energy efficiency and sustainability, both today and into the future. The maturity model touches upon every aspect of the data center including power, cooling, compute, storage and network. The levels of the model outline current best practices and a 5-year roadmap for the industry.
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Roundtable: Hardware and OS Choices for Running Oracle Workloads
Oracle's decision to cease development of Itanium based operating systems has triggered a variety of reactions and concerns among Gartner's client base. This session will assess user reactions to the news and examine tactics for Oracle workload migration.
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Roundtable:The Benefits of Increasing Maturity in Technology, Process, People and Business Management
Our market data indicates most I&O leaders critically need to enhance I&O efficiency, productivity and business value. For the past five years, Gartner has helped hundreds of clients use our I&O maturity model to create roadmaps for systematic I&O improvement. This session will examine the progress that clients are making and offer best practices in its use.
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Roundtable: DevOps Journey to Release Agility
DevOps is an emerging philosophy based upon agile methodologies for the delivery and management of IT services. One of the primary goals is to address the velocity mismatch between development and operations teams especially with respect to application releases. On a more strategic level, it is a key element in Gartner’s Cloud Operating Model which looks at the build-out and support of IT infrastructures more holistically. In this session we will discuss the key concepts behind the DevOps movement and how IT organizations can begin the journey to a more agile yet stable future.
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Roundtable: Big Data – Do You Have it, and What are you Doing About It?
“Big data” is a new term that describes huge volumes of data with complex and varied structure, and special requirements for access, processing, storage, protection and archiving. How are you dealing with big data – do you have it, are you treating it differently? What are other organizations doing to address this challenge?
