Attendees at Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2019 were able to participate in numerous sessions across 10 tracks and learn the best ways to leverage technologies and methodologies to validate their current strategy and determine their next steps for I&O success. Delve into these hot topics and be on the lookout for the full 2020 agenda!
Sunday, December 08, 2019 04:00 PM|Sunday, December 08, 2019 07:00 PM
Not sure which exhibitors to meet with or what sessions to attend? Let Gartner Conference Concierge help you create a custom agenda and schedule meetings. Just email us at ConferenceConciergeNA@Gartner.com and we’ll be in touch soon.
Sunday, December 08, 2019 04:00 PM|Sunday, December 08, 2019 07:00 PM
Sunday, December 08, 2019 04:15 PM|Sunday, December 08, 2019 04:30 PM
Gain the most of your first time at IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference! Hear how to best navigate the venues, learn about the Exhibitor TechZone and network with fellow first-time attendees. Meet us at the Conference Concierge desk, located in Hall C.
Sunday, December 08, 2019 04:15 PM|Sunday, December 08, 2019 07:15 PM
Christopher Mixter, VP, Advisory, Gartner
Enabling digital business transformation requires I&O teams to treat speed and agility as equal in priority to efficiency and reliability. In this Research Discussion exclusively for Heads of I&O, we will discuss in-depth case studies from PayPal, Lexis-Nexis, and EY, who are using new metrics, incentives, and workflows to drive teams and individuals to innovate (not merely protect) Infrastructure performance, to support the pace of change and speed-to-market imperatives of digitizing businesses.
This 3-hour session will answer the following questions:
● How can we guide our teams to innovate towards solving conflicts between efficiency/reliability and speed/agility?
● How can we pivot individuals toward a more future-centric professional identity, one that aspires to greater versatility in role and skillset?
Who should attend?
To foster a high-level of strategic discussion, this meeting is reserved for the Head of Infrastructure. Limited to one attendee per organization.
Sunday, December 08, 2019 04:30 PM|Sunday, December 08, 2019 04:45 PM
Gain the most of your first time at IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference! Hear how to best navigate the venues, learn about the Exhibitor TechZone and network with fellow first-time attendees. Meet us at the Conference Concierge desk, located in Hall C.
Sunday, December 08, 2019 04:45 PM|Sunday, December 08, 2019 05:15 PM
Mike Chuba, Managing Vice President, Gartner
IOCS Orientation session for either first time or returning attendees. This session will give an overview of the overall conference, session makeups, research terms and best practices for attendees.
Sunday, December 08, 2019 05:30 PM|Sunday, December 08, 2019 07:00 PM
Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The topic of containers and Kubernetes has witnessed immense interest in enterprise IT over the past 24 months. In this session, I&O leaders will learn about the potential impact containers will have on their IT environment, identify strategic vendors and understand how they need to rethink current infrastructure and operations approaches .
Sunday, December 08, 2019 05:30 PM|Sunday, December 08, 2019 07:00 PM
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This workshop will demonstrate through hands-on activities the importance of understanding that one negotiation process doesn't fit all vendors. The content, action items, and activities will provide workshop participants with a set of four steps that must be followed and tailored for each megavendor to effectively plan for and negotiate the optimal deal. These steps focus on the "tailoring" element for each of the big four megavendors using Gartner’s “T4” approach focusing on T1-Tactics; T2-Templates; T3-Ts&Cs; T4-Timing. Attendees will receive ready to use checklists, templates, toolkits and tips, tactics and tricks to plan for and negotiate these megavendor deals for cost optimization and risk mitigation.
Sunday, December 08, 2019 05:30 PM|Sunday, December 08, 2019 07:00 PM
Ed Anderson, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
In this workshop we’ll go through the fundamentals of building a cloud strategy and outline the principles to move beyond strategy to execution. The workshop will include hands-on exercises designed to help every attendee leave the session with a working draft of their own cloud strategy.
Sunday, December 08, 2019 05:30 PM|Sunday, December 08, 2019 07:00 PM
Mark Cleary, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Mark Margevicius, VP Analyst, Gartner
The new ITScore for I&O has recently been launched and this workshop will explain how clients can use this to not only self-assess their I&O maturity but also understand what actions they should take to improve their maturity.
Sunday, December 08, 2019 05:30 PM|Sunday, December 08, 2019 07:00 PM
Angelina Troy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Modeling internal on-premises costs is already hard enough, but trying to model highly dynamic cloud costs can be an even more difficult exercise. Work with Angelina Troy to understand where hidden cloud costs lie and the importance of building an accurate cost model without expending too many resources and too much time.
Monday, December 09, 2019 07:15 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 08:15 AM
Milind Govekar, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Please join us for the Senior Leadership Circle welcome and peer networking breakfast as we kick off the program for the week. Tables will be designated by industry and we invite you to interact with peers and make new connections as you settle into the event.
Monday, December 09, 2019 07:15 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 08:15 AM
Monday, December 09, 2019 07:15 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:15 PM
Monday, December 09, 2019 07:15 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:15 PM
Not sure which exhibitors to meet with or what sessions to attend? Let Gartner Conference Concierge help you create a custom agenda and schedule meetings. Just email us at ConferenceConciergeNA@Gartner.com and we’ll be in touch soon.
Monday, December 09, 2019 08:30 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 09:15 AM
David Cappuccio, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Dennis Smith, VP Analyst, Gartner
Julia Palmer, VP Analyst, Gartner
Roger Williams, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Reenergize the state of I&O today: What needs to happen to change focus. As we move into a hybrid world, what technology, tools and issues must I&O deal with, from assets to monitoring to management.
Revitalize Infrastructures: Modernization – from project to product to process – How must I&O consider developing/implementing a continuous modernization process for the existing infrastructure to reduce technical debt, become more agile, and optimize operations.
Reimagine: Organization transformation – What are the new operating models and culture changes required to support Continuous Next
Monday, December 09, 2019 09:15 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 09:30 AM
David Cappuccio, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Katherine Lord, VP Analyst, Gartner
Welcome to the conference. Overview of the conference from the conference chairs.
Monday, December 09, 2019 09:30 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM
Monday, December 09, 2019 09:30 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 07:00 PM
Join IBM in the Services engagement zone to discuss Multicloud Services and Cyber Resiliency. Also view IBM client experiences.
Monday, December 09, 2019 09:30 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 07:00 PM
Get schooled on how to get on the path to hybrid cloud, meet a skateboarding legend, and win one of his signed Xbox games and skateboards! We’ve got some awesome giveaways you won’t want to miss! Head to the Product Zone and meet Nutanix at 5 PM!
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:45 AM
Chris Saunderson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
An automation team is a key enabler of service delivery improvements and efficiencies. I&O leaders should build and sustain a automation team and embed modern development and delivery practices into their initiatives.
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:45 AM
George Spafford, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
I&O leaders face constant pressure to increase their organizations’ ability to respond rapidly to changing digital business demands. This research explains five methods that can help I&O leaders optimize workflows to improve operational agility and meet the evolving needs of the digital business.
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:45 AM
Mike Cisek, VP Analyst, Gartner
Midsize Enterprise IT leaders enjoy great deal of autonomy and control over their environments. Staffing, skills and budget constraints weight heavily on I&O strategy, and making determining the right mix of cloud and on-premises challenging. Leading a small team requires requires the ability to execute in a secure, cost-effective manner, given the constraints inherent in Midsize Enterprises.
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:45 AM
Tony Harvey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The Edge is a different environment, rather than just being about scaling up it's about scaling correctly to deliver the right system at the right price for different workloads and environments. This session will examine the use cases for hyperconverged in Edge locations, the competitive landscape, and the key areas for consideration that should impact your choice of vendors.
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:45 AM
Charley Rich, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
AIOps has become a much-hyped concept. This session will break down what is real and what is still fantasy about this exciting new technology, and provide tactical and strategic steps that users can take to make the best use of AI/ML to enhance this IT Operations.
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:45 AM
Thomas Bittman, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Bob Gill, VP Analyst, Gartner
Tim Zimmerman, VP Analyst, Gartner
David Wright, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Cloud computing has become mainstream and contributes to organizational efficiency and innovation. Edge computing challenges the central models of cloud by taking computing closer to the point of data generation and consumption. This session will invite audience questions about methodologies for leveraging the best of a centralized cloud model, while designing for scenarios that must operate “at the edge.”
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:45 AM
Paul Delory, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Integrated systems — pre-engineered stacks of infrastructure — should be your first choice. But which type of system should you choose? And when should you build, not buy? Come get unbiased, expert help in choosing between converged, hyperconverged, composable, dedicated, and do-it-yourself infrastructure.
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:45 AM
Douglas Toombs, VP Analyst, Gartner
Thanks to the advent of cloud computing services, organizations are rapidly moving to shut down entire data centers. While most organizations won't end up 100% "in the cloud," the reality is that many workloads can be moved somewhere else. This session will walk attendees through Gartner's framework for assessing existing applications against cloud, hosting, and colocation solutions in order to determine the best execution venue(s).
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:45 AM
Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Containers can help enterprises modernize legacy applications and create microservices applications that are scalable and agile. Kubernetes has emerged as the defacto standard for orchestrating these workloads. This session will look at the business value of deploying microservices infrastructure and offer recommendations on best practices to implement and vendors to choose.
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:45 AM
Paul Furtado, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Moving from on-premises to IaaS can introduce additional security risks. This session will discuss areas that midsize enterprises should be aware of and prepared to address when moving to the cloud. Preregistration is required. Seats are limited.
This session is a good fit for you if your organization has between five and 50 people in IT and an IT budget between $5 million and $30 million. We prequalify attendees for midsize enterprise sessions based on annual revenue between $50 million and $1 billion.
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 10:45 AM
David Smith, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Attend this session to discover the most common mistakes in cloud infrastructure strategy, which is based on reviewing hundreds of Gartner client’s cloud strategy. Topics covered include:
- Most common mistakes
- How to avoid them
- What to do next
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 11:00 AM
Ross Winser, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Gartner surveys show formulating cloud strategy is one of the biggest challenges Infrastructure leaders face. Join this Roundtable to discuss how to author an impactful cloud strategy. Tackle the big challenges, make your strategy resonate with stakeholders, share your concerns and successes. Gain insight from your peers and your moderator, a Gartner analyst.
This session format will be that of a focus group, with an emphasis on peer interactions that will potentially be leveraged for research input and direction.
Monday, December 09, 2019 10:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 11:00 AM
Mark Margevicius, VP Analyst, Gartner
Moving from Project to Products, especially for I&O, is easier said than done. This workshop will identify best practices, common pitfalls, real benefits, and others things to be aware of as organizations transition to this new way of working.
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will illustrate and guide IT leaders involved in the negotiation planning process with tips and tactics to use for leverage and bargaining power to optimize negotiations with existing and new and emerging on-premises and cloud vendors. Attendees will learn the importance of including ten “must know” tips, tactics and “tricks” into the negotiation plan to improve pricing and discounts and reduce risk to their organizations.
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM
Angelina Troy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations adopting hybrid and multicloud architectures must decide how to approach service brokering, governance, architectural and operations transformations. This session analyzes the popular alternatives for approaches in each of these areas and the strengths of each approach.
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM
Daniel Bowers, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Core IT has to scale, up, out, down and in ... it has to expand and integrate with an intelligent edge and the explosion of IoT. This session looks at the challenges that still remain for a digital infrastructure where core IT and edge creates a them and us scenario. Intelligent infrastructure IT allows you to develop and optimize the core while expanding on all fronts, edges and things.
The following key issues will be discussed:
● What are the business drivers the core IT digital infrastructure cycle?
● How do you optimize core IT and edge/IoT infrastructure
● How do you define legacy and modernize or standardize projects?
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM
Katherine Lord, VP Analyst, Gartner
IT infrastructure and operations groups have traditionally organized around technology or functional silos. Learn how enterprises are organizing to successfully cope with the much more dynamic requirements inherent with bimodal and digital transformation.
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM
Neil MacDonald, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Security and Risk Management Leaders should implement or improve upon these top 10 security projects in 2019. Any security project must be supported by technology, address the changing needs of cybersecurity and reduce risk by adopting a CARTA strategic approach with all security projects.
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM
David Smith, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The top question in cloud computing is “How do we build a comprehensive cloud strategy?” CIOs and enterprise architects struggle with prioritization and creating a strategy to ensure cloud success. This session takes a “cookbook approach” to:
● Cloud strategy in the context of your overall strategic planning
● How to structure a cloud strategy
● Principles that will guide you to that goal
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM
Diane Berry, VP Analyst, Gartner
Most organizations promote their products and services with a branding strategy and a strong value proposition. Though far fewer realize the importance of developing a compelling employment value proposition (EVP) to attract and recruit top talent. In this session, participants will learn strategies and practices to build and strengthen their EVP.
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM
Sanjit Ganguli, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will provide a general explanation of the world of the Internet of Things and explore how it will affect I&O and what to do about it.
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:00 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM
Jeffrey Hewitt, Research VP, Gartner
Edge computing will grow over the coming years. While data security will be important, physical security of the edge infrastructure will be just as vital. This session will examine the physical security process and provider options that infrastructure and operations managers must consider and adopt to effectively protect their edge computing solutions.
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 12:30 PM
Joel Conaway, Storage Specialist, Evolving Solutions
Eric Herzog, IBM Storage CMO and VP, Worldwide Storage Channels, IBM
Bob Oesterlin, Sr Principal Storage Engineer, Nuance Communications
Doug Knight, Manager, Server Services, CAPITAL BLUE CROSS
Hybrid clouds and multi-clouds spanning enterprise data centers, are placing a new set of requirements on customers’ storage systems. End-users juggle with cloud migration protecting older applications and data, while supporting new generation of cloud-native apps deployed with containers. Learn directly from end-users how Data-driven Storage solutions interconnect data among clouds reaching extraordinary performance at optimal CAPEX and OPEX.
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 12:45 PM
Milind Govekar, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
I&O leaders have to be active contributors toward their organizations’ digital success in delivering growth by helping scale digital initiatives throughout their enterprise. With Infrastructure-Led Disruption, I&O leaders can proactively use technology to drive business innovation. This Leadership Vision enables I&O leaders a guide to do so.
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 01:15 PM
Katherine Lord, VP Analyst, Gartner
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
I&O is shifting, for some attracting female talent is a challenge, and as more women do enter this space, the diversity and dynamics shift, creating great opportunities and considerations within an organization. This lunch is for all — both women, and men who are interested to learn more from each other about how this new diverse mix changes the work environment. Come prepared to share — this will be a highly interactive lunch!
Monday, December 09, 2019 11:45 AM|Monday, December 09, 2019 01:15 PM
Monday, December 09, 2019 01:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:00 PM
Matt Gowarty, Product Marketing-ITOM, ServiceNow
Drive complete visibility across infrastructure, applications, vulnerabilities, and risk. Leverage actionable insights and automate frictionless digital workflows for prioritization and remediation across IT, security, and risk organizations. Operate high-performing services while mitigating risk and reducing spend on resources, cloud usage, and software licenses.
Monday, December 09, 2019 01:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:00 PM
Daniel Eline, Senior Manager Field Development, Equinix
Lou Najdzin, Senior Director Vertical Marketing, equinix
Come discover how leaders are unlocking their cloud and edge advantage by architecting for digital on the right platform. Learn their practices to solve for cloud adjacent data, multicloud Integration, and edge workloads. Benchmark your own digital readiness against this new norm.
Monday, December 09, 2019 01:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:00 PM
Konstantinos Roungeris, Marketing Manager Cloud Solutions, EMEAR, Cisco
In this roundtable session we will discuss what IT organizations must do to consider governance and the requirements for performance and agility vs. risk management. We will also explore ways to align development teams, IT Ops professionals, security teams, key stakeholders and executives around a core set of use cases to ensure that today's cloud investments can shift with changes in business priorities.
Monday, December 09, 2019 01:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:00 PM
Dave Russell, Vice President of Enterprise Strategy, Veeam Software
Backup continues to challenge many organizations. Solve availability issues with a robust, proven Cloud Data Management solution that delivers simple, flexible and reliable backup with greater data agility. Learn how Veeam delivers better backup while contributing to your digital transformation (DX) efforts by reusing stored data across the organization so that you and your business can realize its digital potential.
Monday, December 09, 2019 01:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:00 PM
Patrick Quirk, VP & GM IT Systems, Vertiv
Implementing next gen technologies gives organizations a clear competitive advantage. But the devil is in the details, especially at the edge of network. This presentation will debut joint Forbes/Vertiv research that highlights top challenges facing CIOs and provides advice for overcoming them, from navigating data center strategies for cloud and edge deployments, to training employees in new technologies, to modernizing legacy systems.
Monday, December 09, 2019 01:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:00 PM
Chris Wolf, VP & CTO, Global Field and Industry, VMware
Cloud is no longer a place, but an operating model where cloud service locale is increasingly determined by business requirements rather than the location of cloud data centers. For you, that means even greater choice in how you architect applications and services. Beyond the application, this session spends considerable time on overcoming the numerous operational inhibitors that often limit innovation velocity and agility in a multi-cloud world.
Monday, December 09, 2019 01:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:00 PM
Bill Vass, VP, Amazon Web Services
In this session, we’ll discuss how successful outcomes depend on seamless integration, consistency and extensibility from edge to cloud. You’ll learn about solutions that bring secure data processing and analysis to the edge, collecting and making sense of massive amounts of IoT data. You’ll learn about solutions that bring native AWS services to data centers and provide secure transfer of data to and from the cloud by leveraging the continuum of capabilities from AWS.
Monday, December 09, 2019 01:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:00 PM
Matt Kixmoeller, VP, Products, Pure Storage
James Kelly, Senior Systems Administrator–Research, Chapman University
Organizations everywhere are choosing hybrid cloud so they can get the best of both private and public cloud worlds. But differences in on-premises and cloud environments pose technical challenges to unifying these environments. Learn how Chapman University went about overcoming key challenges, and is identifying and implementing effective tools to realize their cloud strategy.
Monday, December 09, 2019 02:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:45 PM
Julia Palmer, VP Analyst, Gartner
The storage market is evolving to address new challenges in enterprise IT like exponential data growth, rapid digitalization and globalization of business and requirements to connect and collect everything. Storage infrastructure systems based on distributed file systems and object storage are growing faster than ever in both number and capacity of deployments, and are becoming the platform of choice to address the growth of unstructured data in enterprise data centers. This presentation will review the Magic Quadrant in the fastest-growing unstructured data market — Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.
Monday, December 09, 2019 02:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:45 PM
George Spafford, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Many infrastructure and operations (I&O) organizations lack the software engineering (SWE) resources needed to leverage increasingly programmatic infrastructure. To deliver value faster, I&O leaders must develop SWE capabilities and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Monday, December 09, 2019 02:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:45 PM
Dennis Smith, VP Analyst, Gartner
I&O leaders deploying containers for critical use cases need operational tooling to manage application development life cycle. This includes evaluating the capabilities and use case fit of leading container management software solutions. This has become more of challenge with number of offerings in the market (OpenShift, PKS, IBM Cloud Private, Anthos, etc.). This session will present a framework for how enterprises can evaluate on-premises/hybrid container management software systems and discuss some of the industry offerings.
Monday, December 09, 2019 02:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:45 PM
Michael Silver, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The growth of SaaS applications, shifting support to cloud platforms, the growth of mobile and wearables, continuous updates and a host of new use cases require a new type of IT to enable and manage it. To adapt, organizations must reorganize their I&O teams, rethinking support processes and tools, creating and staffing new roles and emphasizing key new skills for IT personnel to acquire.
Monday, December 09, 2019 02:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:45 PM
Ron Blair, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Cost optimization is a business-focused, continuous discipline to drive spending and cost reduction while maximizing business value. But there are also times when infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must simply reduce costs. This session will focus on idea generation and prioritization for both cost optimization and cost reduction activities.
Monday, December 09, 2019 02:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:45 PM
Joe Skorupa, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Neil MacDonald, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The emergence of edge computing, IoT and new digital business initiatives demands a rich set of cloud-delivered networking and security services at the edge. This is driving a new class of merged products — the Secure Access Service Edge — at delivery services on demand and independent of location. This session explains the use cases and how to select the best approach for your environment.
Monday, December 09, 2019 02:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:45 PM
Daniel Bowers, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Virtual machines, containers and serverless computing progressively erase the dependency of applications on infrastructure. This session will show how I&O responsibilities differ with each abstraction style.
Monday, December 09, 2019 02:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 02:45 PM
Sid Nag, VP Analyst, Gartner
Just when you thought you had a handle on cloud computing, the world went multicloud. Join this session to explore the why, when, how and with whom of your multicloud future.
Monday, December 09, 2019 03:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 03:45 PM
Bruce Milne, Chief Marketing Officer, Vice President Business Development, Pivot3
Most data created today is in video format, much of it streaming. This creates a host of new challenges - and opportunities - for IT Operations teams. Many of our normal principles of data management and IT lifecycle management don’t apply, and new technologies are emerging that will require support. Hear about real-world use cases, technologies, and strategies you can apply in the emerging and growing area of video-based computing and analytics.
Monday, December 09, 2019 03:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 03:45 PM
Greg Smith, Sr. Director, Tech Marketing, Nutanix
Are you keeping pace with business demands? What if you could combine the agility, scalability, and usability of the public cloud with the security, control, and performance of on-premises datacenters? The answer is a private cloud. Join us to learn how private clouds can serve a multitude of customers and use cases quickly at scale, including internal application teams who need the ability to provision new IT environments and services rapidly.
Monday, December 09, 2019 03:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 03:45 PM
Aleksas Vitenas, Global Network Competency Leader, IBM
As enterprises modernize applications on the cloud, network plays an important part in determining a smooth transformation. Cloud solutions, and their many variations, allow for increased virtualization and efficiency within the enterprise, the network is no exception. Networks historically have been built by ensuring connectivity from each site back to a handful of data centers. Sizing of these links are estimated and usually oversized, possibly with back up links that are only utilized in the event of a failure, leading to year to year rise on Opex. costs as more bandwidth is provisioned. With the move to cloud the path of the application flow is no longer back to these data centers but to multiple cloud destinations. To ensure effective use of these links the network must become more aware of the underlying physical links and how-to optimal use them to get to the multiple destinations. Complicating the networking architecture even more, with multiple workloads moving to multiple cloud environments, inter connectivity between the clouds and back to the enterprise must be sized and possibly dynamically created to enable the power of the cloud. The network must shift from a manually configured environment to a fully automated and orchestrated environment. IBM Network Intelligent Control Center takes a unique approach to network orchestration to solve these problems enable enterprises to have agile multi-cloud hybrid networking.
Monday, December 09, 2019 03:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 03:45 PM
Don Foster, Vice President, Storage Solutions, Commvault
IT Infrastructure requires you to be Data Ready. Discover how Commvault simplifies your future IT I&O through automation, programmable software-defined infrastructure and native cloud integrations to ensure readiness for whatever comes your way. Disaster recovery, Containers, Multi-cloud and IT Automation? No problem! Join us and see how the future of protecting, controlling, managing and using your data will redefine how you can always Be Ready.
Monday, December 09, 2019 03:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 03:45 PM
Jon Siegal, Vice President, Dell Technologies
Nick Brackney, Senior Consultant, Marketing, Dell Technologies
Cloud is a central part of any organization’s IT strategy but as clouds proliferate they create operational silos that can stifle innovation and erode value. In this session we will discuss how Dell Technologies Cloud Can eliminate these silos by delivering a consistent hybrid cloud. We’ll also look at networking, data protection and a choice of storage solutions that span clouds to keep data manageable and protect it in every cloud.
Monday, December 09, 2019 03:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 03:45 PM
Justin Kestelyn, Product Marketing Lead, GCP, Google Cloud
With 75% of network outages caused by misconfiguration issues, chronic lack of visibility into real-time cloud network performance, and cloud networks becoming more heterogeneous and hybrid, the risks posed by network complexity grow even larger. In this roundtable, we'll discuss emerging requirements for more proactive cloud network monitoring and management.
Monday, December 09, 2019 03:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 03:45 PM
Paul Beavers, Vice President - Product Mgmt., BMC Software
CIOs in companies that are in the throes of digital transformation, have been forced to evolve from being utility players stewarding technology, to strategists who are driving business change. Join us to learn how BMC is helping companies by leveraging innovative technologies like AI/ML, Chatbots & more to help run the business in an efficient manner and innovate to create new business models.
Monday, December 09, 2019 03:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 03:45 PM
Phil Davis, President, Hybrid IT Business, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The next wave of hybrid cloud, sparked by the explosion of data at the edge, will require a new approach to bring agility and cloud economics to workloads beyond cloud-native apps. To deliver that promise, the future of hybrid cloud will be built upon open standards, optimized for containers, managed by AI and consumed as-a-service. Join HPE for an in-depth discussion on the future of hybrid cloud and win 1 of 2 JBL Wireless Headphones.
Monday, December 09, 2019 03:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 03:45 PM
Ben Martin, Executive Director, Lenovo DCG
Data is expanding exponentially and digital disruption is accelerating the speed of business. To survive you need to out-innovate your competitors, which requires the extraction of value from the data you collect. Keeping pace with this and the change in operating models is both complex and critical to remain competitive. In this session, you’ll walk away with insight into the challenge and how you can bridge the gap to thrive.
Monday, December 09, 2019 03:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 03:45 PM
Thomas Scheibe, Vice President, Product Management, DC Networking for Cisco’s Nexus & ACI product line, Cisco
Megatrends like AI/ML, multicloud and 5G place great demands on the data center for operational efficiency. To respond to market conditions in half the time, and sense and anticipate changes. For apps to be smarter and more dynamic. To deliver consistent policy and automation across domains – to the campus, branch, WAN and hybrid cloud. Hear how Cisco is changing the game with an end-to-end architectural solution to help transform your business.
Monday, December 09, 2019 03:45 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 04:15 PM
Monday, December 09, 2019 04:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:00 PM
Leonard Brody, Chairman, Creative Labs (a CAA company), Business and Technology Visionary
We are living in a unique moment in history, when revolutionary change in all sectors is occurring at a frenzied pace.
This massive scale of disruption has understandably left organizations on shaky footing, struggling to engage consumers and employees alike and stay relevant.
Those that learn to adapt, those that allow themselves to be “rewritten” for the modern day, will survive and prosper. Those that do not will collapse.
Leonard Brody explains how to deal with the questions the future holds, and how organizations can harness the uncertainty they’re faced with and turn it into excitement, innovation, and success.
Monday, December 09, 2019 04:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:00 PM
Michelle Duerst, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Brilliant ideas do not reside solely in R&D or even marketing. Find out how you can fuel the ideation process through customer engagement, supplier collaboration, AI, and expanding your internal innovation team. This will feature examples of how manufacturers successfully launched products with an expanded ideation process.
Monday, December 09, 2019 04:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:00 PM
Peter Diamandis, MD Founder, Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation Executive Founder and Director, Singularity University,
The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing. 40% of today’s Fortune 500 companies are predicted to disappear in the next 10 years. Competition is no longer the multinational overseas; instead, it’s the exponential entrepreneur creating companies such as Uber. Much of this transformation is a result of rapidly accelerating exponential technologies. During this Keynote, you will get a real sense of exponential growth, the origins of Moore’s Law, and understand how the 6 D’s -- Digitization, Deception, Disruption, Dematerialization, Demonetization and Democratization -- will impact your products and services. In this highly visual and powerful keynote, Diamandis gives the audience a true understanding of the immediacy of these disruptions. Today’s companies cannot remain stagnant. They must evolve, or they will die. You are either disrupting your own business model or someone else will.
Monday, December 09, 2019 04:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:00 PM
Jeffrey Hewitt, Research VP, Gartner
This session will examine the concept of serverless computing by defining it and providing best practice decision factors for whether it is right for your organization. In addition, how serverless computing will likely affect an existing infrastructure and operations organization will be discussed as well as best practices to adapt to those changes.
Monday, December 09, 2019 04:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:00 PM
Dennis Smith, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will answer your questions regarding the current state of container technologies. Join us to ask questions about the technology, the vendors that make up the ecosystem and the associated products and the issues that enterprises are facing and learn how the technology and the industry will evolve over 3 to 5 years.
Monday, December 09, 2019 04:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:15 PM
Monday, December 09, 2019 04:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:15 PM
Monday, December 09, 2019 04:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:15 PM
Roger Williams, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Ensuring that infrastructure keeps up with the demand for digital business is challenging. Join other I&O leaders wrestling with infrastructure architecture to hear from others on the opportunities and lessons learned from their experiences.
This session format will be that of a focus group, with an emphasis on peer interactions that will potentially be leveraged for research input and direction.
Monday, December 09, 2019 04:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:15 PM
Monday, December 09, 2019 04:15 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:15 PM
Paul Furtado, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Moving from on-premise to IaaS can introduce additional security risks. This session will discuss areas that midsize enterprises should be aware of and prepared to address when moving to the cloud. Preregistration is required. Seats are limited.
This session is a good fit for you if your organization has between five and 50 people in IT and an IT budget between $5 million and $30 million. We prequalify attendees for midsize enterprise sessions based on annual revenue between $50 million and $1 billion.
Monday, December 09, 2019 05:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:30 PM
Leonard Brody, Chairman, Creative Labs (a CAA company), Business and Technology Visionary
Monday, December 09, 2019 05:00 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 07:15 PM
Monday, December 09, 2019 05:10 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:30 PM
Daniel Gould, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Illumio
Defense-in-depth must account for a lot. Cloud workloads. On-prem data centers. The applications that run our businesses. How do we keep safe from breaches when attackers move laterally? The answer is segmentation innovation that harnesses existing security controls built into data centers and clouds. In this session, hear about automating security segmentation to make lateral movement—and SDN and firewalls for segmentation—part of your past.
Monday, December 09, 2019 05:10 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 05:30 PM
Angeline MacIvor, Sales Leader - Canada, Moogsoft
Moogsoft AIOps, an end-to-end collaborative platform for continuous service assurance, helps your IT Ops and DevOps teams work smarter, so they can prevent outages and focus on business-critical problems. In this session, Angeline will explain how, using AI and ML, Moogsoft AIOps ingests monitoring data, slashes alert noise, pinpoints issues, diagnoses causes, improves workflows and accelerates fixes, boosting your digital transformation.
Monday, December 09, 2019 05:40 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 06:00 PM
Jason Baudreau, Director of Product Marketing, NetBrain Technologies
Enterprise IT teams respond to thousands of alarms and hundreds of incidents every day as they struggle to support critical business applications. Average response times are in excess of 3 hours, with a cost of $300K per hour for significant outages. In this presentation, we will examine opportunities for reducing mean time to resolve incidents. We will identify an automation framework to augment existing IT workflows, and a methodology to apply lessons-learned to continuously and systematically reduce MTTR
Monday, December 09, 2019 05:40 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 06:00 PM
Tom Foottit, Senior Director, Product Management, Accedian
One of the major challenges with cloud migration is performance. How can you maintain visibility and control before, during, and after the migration? Do your migrations involve “lift and shift” from the existing environment or are they being re-architected for a containerized environment, and how will that impact performance? This session will review methods to maintain end user performance visibility as applications are migrated to the cloud.
Monday, December 09, 2019 06:10 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 06:30 PM
John Ring, CEO, GIGA Data Centers LLC
The only OCP-Ready data center in North America offers SM&E-sized companies access to edge colocation at affordable prices. GIGA Data Centers builds multi-tenant facilities that offer flexible power densities that support HPC configs, yet deliver an industry-best efficiency with PUE of 1.15. GIGA’s WindChill® System provides hot & cold aisle isolation to support high rack-power densities to distribute infrastructure where and when you want it.
Monday, December 09, 2019 06:10 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 06:30 PM
Mansour Karam, CEO & Founder, Apstra
Organizations that fail to transform the network are 3 times more likely to fail in their digital transformation. Why? Inability to make reliable changes to the infrastructure using operational legacy. But how can you eliminate operational legacy for ever? What needs to change? If you have the ability to consume reliable network services through a software layer, then you will have a chance to eliminate operational legacy overnight.
Monday, December 09, 2019 06:40 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 07:00 PM
David Boland, Dir. Product Marketing, Wasabi Technologies
People know how much data they have. That’s easy. But they have no idea how much egress they’re going to need. Nor do they know how many PUT, GET, LIST, and COPY operations they are going to use. Unpredictable fees from AWS S3, Google, and Azure Blob make forecasting costs next to impossible.This session will examine the little understood charges that drive up cloud storage costs. We’ll discuss how to minimize or avoid them all together.
Monday, December 09, 2019 06:40 PM|Monday, December 09, 2019 07:00 PM
Pascal Snijers, Ops Engineer, ING Belgium
John Hulwick, VP Sales, Loom Systems
Umut Inal, Senior Expert, ING Belgium
Considering or confused about AIOps? Come learn how ING avoids costly downtime & reduces MTTR with predictive AIOps. We'll share our process and criteria for evaluating AIOps solutions, how we deployed Loom Systems AIOps, and the results we have achieved, in terms of predicting & remediating issues before they impact customers. We will also discuss our path towards automated resolution and self-healing IT. We look forward to sharing our story!
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 07:00 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 07:45 AM
Firoz Rangwala, Executive Sr. Principal Consultant, Lenovo DCG
Still trying to make your cloud strategy come to life? Tried implementing, but find that you’re still at ground zero? You’re invited to a Cloud Strategy Workshop- served with a hot breakfast! Refine your vision of the cloud, further qualify your cloud-related needs and requirements, and identify a high-level road map and preliminary set of actions with which to move forward.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 07:00 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 08:00 AM
In order to determine the location of your desired topic; please see the color-coded topic display chart upon entering Hall D. Networking Topics are as follows.
Academic Birds of a Feather (Colleges/Universities):
Best practices when consolidating Data Centers:
Organizational best practices – Driving Change:
Infrastructure & Operations best practices:
Government Birds of a Feather (local/Federal):
IT Service management issues and opportunities:
Data & Analytics:
Building a Cloud Strategy:
Successfully Implementing Hybrid Cloud:
How and where are you using containers:
Enterprise mobility management:
Cloud storage – what are you doing and is it working?:
Leveraging Automation in I&O:
Midsize Organization - Birds of a feather:
Getting Started with DevOps (101):
Scaling DevOps (201):
Windows 10:
Senior Leadership Circle Participant Experiences:
Trends in security for I&O:
First-Timers
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 07:00 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 08:00 AM
Raj Bala, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Public Cloud IaaS is now a mainstream technology platform adopted by enterprises of all shapes and sizes. The question of “how to adopt the cloud the right way?" is one in which many enterprises struggle.
This session will provide actionable advice on creating a comprehensive, enterprise cloud strategy, while offering guidance as to the what, where and when for enterprise workloads.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 07:00 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:45 PM
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019 07:00 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:45 PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 08:15 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:00 AM
Padraig Byrne, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Quantum computing question and answer session. Learn how quantum computing will impact core IT capabilities such as ML, AI, and optimization. Learn how to build skills and to shape problems to fit quantum-inspired algorithms.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 08:15 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:00 AM
Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Innovation centers spur and support progress in infrastructure and operations, but may demand new skills, culture and processes. In this session, we answer FAQs on best practices to harness innovation within I&O.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 08:15 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:00 AM
Katherine Lord, VP Analyst, Gartner
I&O leaders clearly understand the imperative that culture needs to evolve, and in some instances change drastically to support new work modalities and technologies. It's easy to say, easy to understand the need, but where on earth do you start with something that seems so big, so nebulous and often so ingrained in the organization? How can you take a 35,000 foot problem, and make it prescriptive, more approachable, and perhaps even (dare we say) fun! Come learn the art of culture hacking, and how you can apply this skill to I&O.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 08:15 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:15 AM
Ted Corbett, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This is the roundtable to further extend the topic submitted as breakout session of the same title.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 08:15 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:15 AM
Julian Tirsu, Principal Analyst, Gartner
Retention plans are about more than arriving at the "right number" or "right period" for retention. Enforcement, change management and accountability all play significant roles that I&O leaders must consider; otherwise, projects will languish or fail to achieve tangible benefits. This roundtable discussion will focus on action items and guidance based on direct input from participants.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 08:15 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:15 AM
Andrew Lerner, VP Analyst, Gartner
This roundtable discusses how to design, build and operate networks, and is designed to help cut through the hype surrounding emerging technologies such as SDN, white-box and “open-networking.” Attendees are asked to share their approaches and concerns to data center and cloud network design.
This session format will be that of a focus group, with an emphasis on peer interactions that will potentially be leveraged for research input and direction.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:00 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:30 AM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:00 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 07:15 PM
Join IBM in the Services engagement zone to discuss Multicloud Services and Cyber Resiliency. Also view IBM client experiences.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:00 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 07:15 PM
Nutanix Engagement Zone
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:15 AM
Michael Hoeck, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, I&O leaders are tasked with insuring resilient infrastructure delivery that extends beyond the core data center. In this session, we will look at key points that have tripped up many companies when unexpected failures have occurred in seemingly innocuous or uncorrelated systems, as well as provide recommendations on how to structure IT resilience efforts.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:15 AM
Jonathan Forest, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This presentation covers why and how networks need to change to support new digital initiatives. It will discuss limitations with today’s networks, drivers for change, new technologies, and new practices for enterprise to employ. It will cover the WAN, data center and campus networks.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:15 AM
Ross Winser, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As I&O Leaders, CIO's and CTO's struggle with maintaining existing operations, while at the same time adapting to an ever-increasing introduction of new technologies by business leaders, they rarely have time to look beyond short-planning horizons. This session is designed to look at emerging trends in both business and technology, and discuss their potential impact on IT; to enable IT leaders to get ahead of the curve.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:15 AM
David Wright, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The major public cloud providers are gradually moving on-premises with hyperconverged infrastructure running their cloud services in your datacenter. We'll review the major entrants including Azure Stack, AWS Outposts and Google Anthos. What will these offerings do to the datacenter infrastructure market, and how will they impact your Hybrid Cloud strategy?
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:15 AM
Bob Gill, VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner conducted in-depth surveys with 200 Enterprises on their Edge Computing Use cases, motivators, inhibitors, and plans. We explore their answers in detail, and illuminate the top trends.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:15 AM
Douglas Toombs, VP Analyst, Gartner
The growth of public cloud, DevOps and serverless technologies forces I&O professionals to reassess and recalibrate their role in the organization. This session covers Gartner’s outlook on the new roles and skills needed by I&O in cloud architecture, engineering, brokering, automation, governance and management.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:15 AM
Mark Margevicius, VP Analyst, Gartner
Products over projects is the latest approach for completing tasks in I&O. Adopting a product approach to I&O can be confusing; understanding how products differ from projects and services is essential for I&O leaders. By using frameworks for product classification, clients can prioritize work and better understand the process and people changes that go along with it.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:15 AM
Charley Rich, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Enterprises clinging to IT monitoring just to understand the health of IT resources will be tomorrow's digital business losers. The simple truth is that IT monitoring will increasingly become a critical element in an organization's overall digital business service delivery strategy.
Attend this session if you want to not only survive, but to thrive with the rapid pace of change occurring on the path toward an increasingly digital future.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:15 AM
Paul Delory, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
There are more and better infrastructure options than ever before. But with more choices comes more uncertainty, more risk, and ever-more hyperbolic claims. What is real, and what is just hype? Join us to uncover the truth about modern infrastructure, including: public cloud, edge, converged, hyperconverged, composable, DevOps, virtualization, containers, automation, monitoring, and AIOps.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 09:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This clinic will walk through and illustrate four financial models that negotiators should use as part of a collaborative negotiation planning process. This session will illustrate and walk through typical negotiation scenarios and show attendees how these models are requisite for cost transparency and also to use as negotiation leverage. The analysis models will include TCA/TCO, NPV, Capex vs. Opex, and Cash Flow vs. P&L Impact.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:15 AM
Scott Baker, Sr. Director, Hitachi Data Systems
John Magee, VP, Product Marketing, IoT and Analytics, Hitachi Vantara
Colin Gallagher, Vice President, Infrastructure Solutions Product Marketing, Hitachi Vantara
Manoj Raisinghani, Vice President, Global Services GTM, Hitachi Vantara
The 21st century will be defined by data. In the next 4 years, one trillion new sensors will be connected to the internet, manifesting themselves as smart factories, smart processes, smart spaces and more. In this session, we’ll look at how you can drive agility, automation and collaboration across your business – from application and data infrastructure to its business consumers - demonstrating how Hitachi Vantara can partner with you.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:15 AM
Pat Corcoran, Global Strategy Executive, IBM
Why cyber attacks are likely to be the Achilles heel of your recovery strategy? Why existing and traditional DR systems will never be enough today? How robust and agile is your Resiliency strategy in a hybrid multicloud world? How can you sidestep cyber attacks and function under duress? What regulatory mandates does cyber resilience help you comply with? Join us to discuss all things Resiliency in a world refined by new paradigms of security and risks.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:15 AM
Arpan Shah, General Manager, Microsoft
Your IT environments are becoming increasingly complex with apps running across on-premises, clouds and edge. How do you manage and secure disparate environments at scale while empowering developer agility? Join us to learn how Azure helps you meet these challenges, and how Azure Arc—our newest hybrid offering—brings Azure management and data services to any infrastructure so you can innovate anywhere while operating seamlessly and securely.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:15 AM
Zac Cutler, Principal Architect, David-Kenneth Group
Enabling the expanding boundaries of the data center, while keeping existing systems running, is like a balancing act on a tight rope. The path forward is a hybrid IT environment that balances the old with the new. This session will review over 7 Hybrid IT models for compute and storage, discuss the business value these models offer, and share real-world examples of how other organizations found their balance.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:15 AM
Brian Carmody, Chief Technology Officer, INFINIDAT
Your business collects and generates more and more data every day, which in turn enables you to make better decisions, increase revenue, lower costs, and reduce risks. This session examines:
- How data provides increasing value to your organization, regardless of where it's located.
- The relationship between data, cost, and ROI
- Creating data-driven competitive advantage for your business
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:15 AM
Paul Beavers, Vice President - Product Mgmt., BMC Software
Cullen Verbarg, Data Center Manager – North America, TechnipFMC
Paul Alexander, Senior Technology Officer, STEM Faculty, The Open University
Rob Kruthaupt, Senior Technical Support Team Lead, Cincinnati Bell
Kathie Lyons, Executive Vice President and General Man, Park Place Technologies
Chris Adams, President and CEO, Park Place Technologies
To excel in the age of digital transformation, customers will increasingly embrace new infrastructure service models – and a new category. The new approach must evolve into a service model that delivers a simplified view to discover, monitor, support and optimize (DMSO services). This is the big shift: elevating services, expertise and capabilities beyond the traditional notions of maintenance and support.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:15 AM
Kenneth Hui, Senior Solutions Architect, Rubrik
Rubrik, Inc: The latest tech buzzword gaining ascendancy is “multi-cloud.” But how real are the claims about the benefits of a multi-cloud approach? This session is for those who are considering the validity of a multi-cloud strategy or thinking through when and how to implement such a strategy. We will explore both the benefits and potential downsides, as well as the best approach to multi-cloud.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:15 AM
Vikram Bhatia, VP, Cloud GTM Strategy, Partners & Business, monica.garza@netapp.com
As more critical workloads move to the public cloud, high performance computing (HPC) scenarios across finance, research, genomics, and reservoir engineering are increasingly being deployed with mixed results. In this session, we will discuss challenges, advances and trends in deploying HPC in the cloud through the lens of real-world customer experiences. HPC workloads not only require performance levels far exceeding typical cloud scenarios, the amount of data exchanged by applications, systems and across datacenters also creates unique constraints on the end user’s ability to enable efficient processing of information. In this session, you will also hear customer stories who have successfully leveraged the cloud to enable on-demand high performance data processing at massive scale at high cost efficiencies.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:15 AM
Sudip Datta, Head of AIOps Products, Broadcom
Kieran Taylor, Head of AIOps Marketing, Broadcom
It’s easy to throw out yet another three-letter acronym and claim it’s a magical elixir for running complex IT systems. In this roundtable, we’ll discuss SRE best practices for defining problem conditions via SLOs and SLIs, how to rapidly diagnose and remediate problems, and how to predict code, capacity, change and configuration problems without compromising on velocity. Join us and learn how AIOps can help kickstart your SRE model
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:15 AM
David Carlson, VP, Managed Services Sales, SIRIUS
Matthew Hull, VP, Global DGX & AI Data Center Solutions Sales, Matthew Hull
Francesco Quinterno, CTO, Coke One North America
Russell Cozart, Senior Director, Product Management - CXD, Cyxtera
A panel of IT leaders share how their data center strategies have evolved to achieve cloud-first benefits for applications not fit for the public cloud. Topics will include innovative uses of colocation to support resource intensive yet latency-sensitive applications, hybrid connectivity, AI and edge computing in a more cost-effective, agile yet dedicated environment.
Moderator: Russell Cozart, Sr Director, Compute Platform Product Management - Cyxtera
Panelists: Francesco Quinterno, CTO, CONA IT Services
Matt Hull, VP, DGX & AI Data Center Solutions, NVIDIA
David Carlson, VP, Managed Services, Sirius
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:15 AM
Dan Koloski, Vice President, Oracle
Your operations and systems management regime must be as fast and adaptive as your business in order to thrive. Join us to learn how leading IT organizations are accomplishing this through automated monitoring, troubleshooting, analytics, and machine learning for hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. We’ll discuss platform and operational choices that can eliminate manual effort from IT operations practices while increasing service levels.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:50 AM
Tony Harvey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The session will present the results of 2019 Hype Cycle for Compute Infrastructure. Gartner will discuss the maturity, adoption and relevance of many compute technologies including containers, serverless and quantum computing, and composable infrastructure.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:50 AM
Julia Palmer, VP Analyst, Gartner
The revamped Primary Storage Array magic quadrant eliminates the media distinction in past magic quadrants to focus on innovation, future capabilities and superior customer value. Organizations will gain insight into which vendors are best positioned to meet their primary storage needs today and tomorrow.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Padraig Byrne, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
While Quantum computing is still in its nascent stages, the potential impact of this technology is immense, affecting everything from cryptography to supply chain logistics. Yet like all technologies., the team that will be left to manage quantum will be I&O.
I&O leaders who have one eye on the future should attend this talk to:
1. Learn what Quantum computing is and what is happening today
2. How Quantum is currently operating and how they can test it
3. Start planning for the impact on their I&O teams
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Mark Lockwood, VP Analyst, Gartner
What, really, is holding desktop as a service back? Is it cost? Is it cost complexity? Is it unrealistic contract lengths that must be signed before discounts are applied? Is it lack of control? The answer to all of these is yes, and in this session we will talk about why the concept of DaaS requires a complete reboot, and whether Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop is capable of doing so.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Tiny Haynes, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Michael Silver, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Organizations struggle to decide what endpoint experiences to provide and support. PCs are still pervasive, but organizations need to optimize costs and improve security and compliance and often look to virtualization to help. And now they often look to provide desktop services in the cloud. The session will explore how organizations should decide how to enable their users for high productivity while watching cost.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Joe Skorupa, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Every midsize enterprise is closing their data center and moving to cloud, or are they? This session guides the MSE though the decision process for on vs. off-premises infrastructure. It then provides best practices for those organizations for which cloud migration is the right answer.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Jeffrey Hewitt, Research VP, Gartner
As the use of software containers proliferates, infrastructure and operations managers must and will be given more visibility and control over the directions that their organizations take with containers. This presentation will lay the foundation for effective management strategies in dealing with containers and share the most common mistakes that must be avoided.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
As AI and ML initiatives evolve, the biggest challenge that I&O leaders will face is operationalizing ML for effective management and delivery of models. This session will outline a set of best practices to build and deploy ML models in production for successful delivery of AI-based systems.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Federico De Silva, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As IT infrastructure and application increases in complexity due to cloud, mobile and new architectures, incumbent ITOM provider offerings are being rendered ineffective. Even new and emerging providers, with their narrow focus, often find themselves at a disadvantage as they are not able to cover a broad and ever-changing IT environment. Understand what are the key trends in the vendor landscape, their capabilities and how you can optimize your IT monitoring strategy.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:30 AM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Michael Hoeck, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Ransomware taking aim at backup data to prevent recovery could have significant consequences. I&O Leaders must ensure that best practices are followed to ensure backup copies are protected and ready for recovery when needed.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:45 PM
Mike Adams, Senior Director, Product Marketing, VMware
Modern apps are increasingly built using containers. Yet, too many organizations struggle with a shortage of skills needed to quickly deploy these apps into production. VMware’s Project Pacific brings containers and Kubernetes natively into vSphere, running as peers with virtual machines. Admins leverage existing skillsets and processes to offer self-service to developers. Join this session to learn more about this exciting VMware tech preview.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 01:00 PM
Bruce Kirkby, Photographer, Writer and Adventurer,
Between today’s comfortable routines and tomorrow’s possibilities, lies a maze of uncertainty, unfamiliarity and discomfort. The ability to confidently and competently complete this journey — the archetypal journey of all human growth — stands as one of the greatest determinants of success, both organizational and personal. Unfortunately, there is a broadly-held assumption that teams and individuals either have the magical ability to lean into fear and seek sustained uncertainty, to stomach failures and brush aside judgements — or they don’t. And that is simply not true. Navigating change and growth is a trainable, repeatable skill. Drawing on experiences from three decades of expeditions, and sharing his learnings from the competitive realms of television production, photography, and writing, Bruce Kirkby lays out the universal obstacles to change and growth — fear, failure, judgment, crisis, and paralysis – and shows us how to transform these obstacles into signals, illuminating the path towards future innovation, creativity, and success.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:30 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:50 PM
Frank Yue, Solutions Architect, Kemp Technologies
167 million application visits in a single day! Learn how one infrastructure adjustment promoted greater agility and helped this online fashion and cosmetics giant satisfy intolerant user expectations and high user demand. Get the inside track on how ASOS accelerated its digital transformation through new architectures and solutions to deliver an optimal AX to satisfy customer expectations.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:30 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:50 PM
Anders Wallgren, VP of Technology Strategy, CloudBees
Today, every business is a software business. You need to be fast and agile to compete. And while organizations are progressing well in DevOps, they still are challenged to connect software delivery to business value. Anders will discuss 3 key things organizations should consider as they work to connect their software development efforts to the entire business and allow the organization to achieve a harmonious state of “Continuous Everything.”
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 01:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 01:20 PM
Arun Ananthampalayam, Product Marketing Manager, Google
Organizations are looking to modernize legacy apps and build new apps to unleash speed and innovation for their businesses in the hybrid and multicloud world. Ready to bring your application into the 21st century, and the flexibility to run them where you want with Anthos? This session is for you.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 01:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 01:20 PM
Ingo Fuchs, Sr. Manager, NetApp
Digital transformation has moved from buzz word to real world implementations – and how would you effectively transform without adopting DevOps principles to accelerate software and services deployments - and Hybrid Multi Cloud architectures to run production, dev, and test? In this session we will dive into best practices for adopting both DevOps and Clouds – along with specific examples on how to create positive impact quickly – often leveraging tools you are already using in your environment today.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 01:30 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 01:50 PM
Matt Klassen, VP Product Marketing, Cherwell Software
Are you winning at the IT success game? Wherever you are in the process, Cherwell ITSM solutions can help you overcome IT chaos with ease so you can focus on more proactive, high-value work. Find out how you can:
● Dramatically reduce resolution and fulfillment time
● Give employee more engaging experiences
● Visualize actionable value-based KPIs
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 01:30 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 01:50 PM
Michael Eshoo, Technical Program Manager, Amazon Web Services
Learn how AWS is helping their customers rapidly develop modern operating models that allow technical staff to quickly respond to business needs. We will review techniques for designing operating models, consider how we can treat operating models like products leveraging Amazon innovation approaches, and then review AWS offering that are enabling customer success across varied operating approaches.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:20 PM
Dennis Smith, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session takes a look at the latest Magic Quadrant covering hyperscale public cloud providers, understanding significant changes in market trends.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:20 PM
Julian Tirsu, Principal Analyst, Gartner
Review session and snapshot of the enterprise information archiving products that support the archiving and retrieval of enterprise data and messaging content. I&O leaders should select the most suitable of the EIA products, based on their ability to support use cases and critical capabilities evaluated. Focus will be on the key drivers, market direction and vendor movement.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:45 PM
Thomas Bittman, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
In the next four years, enterprises will have many edge computing use cases deployed. The landscape of possible use cases is broad and very diverse, ranging from industrial IoT to immersive experiences, from consumer to commercial to industrial, and from things to people. I&O leaders need to proactively develop a vision and multiyear strategy for edge computing as a whole. We discuss the landscape of use cases and building a strategy for edge computing.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:45 PM
Paul Furtado, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Moving from on-premise to IaaS can introduce additional security risks. This session will discuss areas that midsize enterprises should be aware of and prepared to address when moving to the cloud. Preregistration is required. Seats are limited.
This session is a good fit for you if your organization has between five and 50 people in IT, and an IT budget between $5 million and $30 million. We prequalify attendees for midsize enterprise sessions based on annual revenue between $50 million and $1 billion.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:45 PM
Paul Delory, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Infrastructure automation is no longer optional. But it is complex, and no one tool can do it all. Join us for a detailed map of the infrastructure automation landscape, including: infrastructure-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-code-models, DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines, tool selection, infrastructure modernization, orchestration, software delivery, patching, compliance, and governance.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:45 PM
Neil MacDonald, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will explore specific strategies, vendors and technologies for the security of cloud-based workloads in IaaS/PaaS and information in SaaS. Most organizations will use different strategies for securing different layers of the cloud, so this presentation will look at both IaaS/PaaS security and SaaS security.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:45 PM
Bob Gill, VP Analyst, Gartner
It used to be that I&O CONTROLLED Enterprise Infrastructure; the widespread move toward externally provided services such as Hosted applications SaaS, and IaaS/PaaS have created a bewildering mesh (or mess!) of systems and services that I&O must now manage and operate. This session will outline the challenges faced by I&O in 2020, and propose strategies and tactics for regaining control.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:45 PM
Ross Winser, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As organizations of all sizes attempt to scale up their digital efforts, the demands of perpetual renewal, swift delivery, and increasing interaction are relentless. Gain practical advice on how to navigate the I&O skills gap, to survive and thrive in a world of consistent, unending change.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:45 PM
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Software audits continue to be high-risk and high-cost challenges for organizations. Each year, Gartner takes hundreds of inquiries on this important topic and has developed a powerful, highly effective nine-step process known as "C9." C9 will help you develop your own audit-readiness kit and take the necessary steps to successfully reduce noncompliance risk, manage the audit process and provide tips and tactics to negotiate the audit settlement for cost savings and cost avoidance. Attendees will receive ready-to-use templates for creating an audit-specific NDA and scope and methodology document. Attendees will also receive checklists to follow as they prepare for the audit and tips and tactics for negotiating the audit settlement.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:45 PM
Chirag Dekate, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Quantum computing is a much hyped computing architecture that CIOs and practitioners alike cannot ignore. In this session， attendees will learn why quantum computing will drive the next evolution in computing and computational architectures. Learn how quantum computing will impact core sciences and computing disciplines like chemistry, material science and bio-engineering. See a live programming demonstration on an actual quantum computer and how we shape problems to fit quantum-inspired algorithms to enabling new technological innovations.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:45 PM
David Smith, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The cloud phenomenon continues to grow. As many companies have moved to a cloud first position, many others are finding they need advice in structuring their overall cloud strategy. This presentation will describe the state of cloud computing, major strategy elements and will explore some tactics critical to driving cloud success.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:45 PM
George Spafford, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
DevOps involves risk and requires a continuous commitment to learning and improvement in order to improve enterprise agility and restore an organization’s ability to innovate. This presentation sets forth how IT Leaders can successfully start and scale a DevOps transformation using an iterative approach.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM
Stephen White, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This interactive clinic gives critical steps to evaluate Microsoft licensing options and negotiate an enterprise agreement. This session will also address Microsoft’s objectives, priorities and behaviors to help ensure that you’re prepared to evaluate proposals while determining the right licensing approach for your organization. Session is limited to end-users only.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM
Kenneth Gonzalez, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
Whether it’s negotiating the license cost on your first SaaS agreement, properly scoping consulting services, or how to address complex issues which might arise, it’s not always clear how to work with ServiceNow or their partners to get what you need. In this session, we’ll discuss the key things you can do to get your desired outcomes.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM
Tony Harvey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The reality for most I&O Leaders is that they will have to support systems that are no longer supported by the vendor. This roundtable will discuss how best an I&O Leader can work to ensure the systems are operated and secured.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM
Katherine Lord, VP Analyst, Gartner
Everywhere you turn you are hearing how important culture change is in terms of driving digital transformation. This can seem like a daunting undertaking, and often small culture hacks are quite powerful in making progress. In this Roundtable come discuss your culture hacks, ideas and brainstorm with peers on how to influence and drive change
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:30 PM
Diane Berry, VP Analyst, Gartner
To find scarce skills, manage costs, provide services 24/7 and get closer to the business and the customer, enterprises must source and manage the workforce beyond physical base and proximity. In this session you will learn how to remove the barriers of distance between workforce members and create a highly collaborative and effective virtual workforce.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:30 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:50 PM
Nathan Hill, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session covers Gartner’s 2019 Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Strategies, where attendees will learn about key disruptive trends in the infrastructure space, including; edge computing, multimode infrastructure, Internet of Things, software-defined anything, cloud- and container-based delivery, and virtualization.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:30 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 02:50 PM
Mark Cleary, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will focus on the Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Tools.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:30 PM
Chris Saunderson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a popular topic and it dovetails with DevOps. I&O leaders can learn the basics and how to begin their journey to SRE and DevOps
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:30 PM
Ron Blair, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Technical Debt originated as a software development concept to describe future liabilities. But I&O Leaders are no strangers to Technical Debt as legacy systems remain under-invested and new capabilities demanded. The result is higher costs and greater risk, ultimately manifesting as an impediment for infrastructure led disruption. This session will share approaches to address technical debt.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:30 PM
Chris Silva, VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital workplace solutions, such as Microsoft Office 365 and G Suite, are delivered as a service. Leaders of IT operations must change their management and support models to deliver this type of service effectively.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:30 PM
Tiny Haynes, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This track examines the shortfalls of existing capex investments for DCs when considering the cloud. It further goes on to suggest new ways of building a business case to justify cloud investment to the senior decision makers.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:30 PM
Dennis Smith, VP Analyst, Gartner
I&O leaders are challenged to manage private, public and multicloud services. This requires understanding of the different types of cloud management tools along with the trends and the problems that can be addressed. This session will present a framework that organizations can use to select the right tools to manage their cloud deployments.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:30 PM
Sid Nag, VP Analyst, Gartner
Cloud Management Platform vendors, Managed Service Providers and Cloud Service Brokers have related yet different roles in the enterprise as organizations pursue cloud adoption - especially multicloud and hybrid cloud. This session will highlight the differences of each of these roles while discussing how they are yet related and how IT leaders should leverage each of these service providers in successful adoption of cloud.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:30 PM
Henrique Cecci, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
With the rise of cloud computing, traditional enterprise data centers are adapting and evolving. In this session, we examine the key trends shaping the future of enterprise data centers, helping infrastructure and operations leaders make informed decisions about on-premises infrastructure architectures.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:30 PM
Sanjit Ganguli, VP Analyst, Gartner
Network operations teams are under intense pressure from above and from within to modernize their processes and become as agile as the business expects. This session will explore the network analytics and automation technologies that can help NetOps achieve these goals.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 04:30 PM
Philippe Poutonnet, Product Marketing Manager, Google
Today you've got huge landscapes of traditional workloads running on-prem. You're looking to deliver new customer experiences, redesign business models and transform your culture. But how do you bridge the gap between now and the future? You start by enhancing and optimizing traditional workloads with cloud’s modern infrastructure. Learn best practices for laying the groundwork for tomorrow, by migrating and modernizing your workloads today.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 04:30 PM
Michael Letschin, Director, Technical Advocacy and Principal Technologist, Cohesity
Christopher Colotti, Principal Technologist, Cohesity
Someone you know is affected by ransomware. Ransomware is expected to cost businesses and organizations $11.5 billion by the end of 2019. Join this session to discuss a holistic approach that includes people, processes and technology to thwart ransomware attacks. Topics include trends in ransomware attacks, its crippling financial & non-financial impacts, & best practice recommendations to help stop and predictably respond to ransomware attacks.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 04:30 PM
Caroline Seymour, VP, Product Marketing, Zerto
All enterprises have a cloud-first strategy, and this strategy should include application and data mobility for on-premises to cloud environments without vendor lock-in. Hear how Mazuma, Jay Peak, Tencate and McKesson have avoided the common pitfalls to deliver IT Resilience to their entire environment. Successfully taking their DR operations to the cloud, quickly migrating workloads to and across multiple clouds.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 04:30 PM
Jason Carolan, Chief Innovation Officer, Flexential
Today’s mission for I&O leaders extends “beyond the four walls” of the data center. Insuring application and infrastructure performance and portability across ecosystems has never been more challenging.
Join Jason Carolan, Flexential's Chief Innovation Officer and learn how Onyx CenterSource balances on-premise, off-premise, DevOps and third-party cloud requirements in a high stakes’ regulatory climate.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 04:30 PM
Mark Gaydos, CMO, Nlyte
IBM, Erie Insurance, Sandia Labs, State Farm Insurance, Sutter Health, US Dept of Justice, Nlyte.
In this interactive panel, six infrastructure professionals will discuss their strategies in improving the operational performance of their computing infrastructure. Hear how these leaders use technology to reduce costs and tackle the high demands of their respective businesses – along with their best practices, pitfalls, successes and challenges.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 04:30 PM
Kevin Brown, SVP Innovation & CTO, Schneider Electric
Higher density chips are on the way. Today, air and liquid cooling options exist but many work harder, not smarter. Enter chassis-based immersive liquid cooling to solve the server chaos with the potential to optimize operations, efficiency, and cost. This talk will focus on how Schneider Electric is leading an eco-system to create viable, commercial liquid cooled systems that offer up to 15% lower CapEx and up to 30% energy reduction.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 04:30 PM
Robert Erickson, Director, Managed Multicloud Services Pl, IBM
As organizations embark on a path to digital transformation, it's not one size fits all. However, there are some commonalities. Join this round table session to hear lessons learned to overcome the speed bumps in your journey to become a cognitive enterprise.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 04:30 PM
Molly Presley, Global Product Marketing, Qumulo
Enterprises around the globe are constantly looking to integrate new technology to accelerate data insights and time to deploying new services and technologies. This session will cover how Fortune 100 Enterprises are making architectural decisions today to meet current demands while simultaneously setting them up for success as they move to leverage the cloud more and more over time.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 04:30 PM
Data is becoming your company’s most valuable asset. How it’s gathered and monetized is a huge challenge, and hardware limitations don’t help. The death of Moore’s Law makes things even worse. Learn how Software-Defined Server technology overcomes these constraints by taking existing servers and sizing them on demand to match any workload. Hear Jana Kanyadan, Global CIO of Mohawk Industries share how his firm maximizes data value and cuts costs.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 03:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 04:30 PM
Elik Eizenberg, CTO, BigPanda
Jason Walker, Director, IT Operations Center, Blizzard Entertainment
The need for speed drives enterprises, but with speed come tremendous operational challenges. IT Ops, Site Reliability, and DevOps teams have to deal with overwhelming alert volumes, continuous production changes, and dynamic service topologies. The result? Frequent, long, and painful outages. But AIOps can help. Learn how Blizzard modernized operations on one of the world's fastest-moving IT stacks and why AIOps is part of the solution.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 04:30 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:00 PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:45 PM
Dr. Steve Robbins, Inclusion Expert, S.L. Robbins and Associates
Without understanding culture, we will have a difficult time understanding open- and closed-mindedness. Dr. Robbins quotes a famous sociologist to explain how culture plays a key role in how humans behave in a world full of differences. Culture also ties into the pursuit of inclusion & innovation, and it has everything to do with teamwork and leadership.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:45 PM
Paul Delory, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Infrastructure automation is no longer optional. It is a response to the increasing scale and complexity of modern distributed systems. Join an analyst for deep, unbiased insights on automating data center and cloud infrastructure; and compare tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform and Jenkins.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:00 PM
Paul Furtado, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Moving from on-premise to IaaS can introduce additional security risks. This session will discuss areas that midsize enterprises should be aware of and prepared to address when moving to the cloud. Preregistration is required. Seats are limited.
This session is a good fit for you if your organization has between five and 50 people in IT and an IT budget between $5 million and $30 million. We prequalify attendees for midsize enterprise sessions based on annual revenue between $50 million and $1 billion.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:00 PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:00 PM
Ross Winser, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
By definition, cloud strategies depend heavily on third-party vendors for infrastructure, platform and software as a service. In this Roundtable session, discuss your experiences, hopes and concerns with managed and professional service providers involved in your cloud adoption.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:00 PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:00 PM
Michelle Duerst, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Enterprises face continual challenges to anticipate trends, meet customer preferences, beat their competition, protect their brand and, of course, produce a profit. This session will focus on lessons learned from the consumer goods industry in Product Portfolio Management and Product Lifecycle Management as organizations seek to manage projects like a product.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:00 PM
Andrew Lerner, VP Analyst, Gartner
This roundtable discusses challenges in modern WANs including price, performance and availability and touches on topics including SD-WAN and Hybrid WAN architectures. Attendees will be asked to share their approaches and concerns to WAN design.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:00 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:00 PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:15 PM
Dr. Steve Robbins, Inclusion Expert, S.L. Robbins and Associates
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:45 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 07:30 PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:55 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:15 PM
Paul Zugnoni, Head of Networking and Datacenter Infras, Wish
Brian Eichman, Director - Solution Architecture & Produ, CoreSite
Wish.com, a mobile shopping platform, needs a data center provider with AWS Direct Connect and the ability to scale infrastructure. CoreSite, a high-performance data center provider, is leading the charge to provide colocation and cloud solutions to support digital transactions at the edge. This use case will highlight the challenges, solutions and look to the future of this hybrid cloud strategy.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 05:55 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:15 PM
Andre Benguerel, Technical Consultant - Strategic Accounts, Nasuni
Attend to learn why companies are retiring hundreds of on-premises file servers, along with backup servers and software, disaster recovery and file synchronization software. Learn how Nasuni consolidates Network Attached Storage (NAS) and file server silos in cloud storage, delivering infinite scale, built-in backup, global file sharing, and local file server performance, all at a greatly reduced cost of traditional file infrastructures.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:25 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:45 PM
Tanium gives organizations the power to secure and manage all endpoints across the enterprise within seconds no matter where the device exists; in the cloud, on premise, anywhere. Join Tanium’s product team as they show you how Tanium’s platform works with any public IaaS provider & provides a single, seamless
view of servers/workloads no matter where they live.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:25 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:45 PM
David Ginsburg, VP of Marketing, Aryaka
Digital Transformation can’t be held back by the WAN. A solution, SD-WAN, is available from box vendors or as a telco managed offering, but both suffer from limitations. Enterprises can improve productivity and optimize ROI via a cloud-first managed offering integrating connectivity, multi-cloud access, security + Gartner SASE alignment, and visibility in a service that hides complexity and enables a compelling application experience.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:55 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 07:15 PM
Brad Parks, VP Marketing and Business Development, Morpheus Data
On-prem and public clouds can offer instant and elastic resources for Developers but VM and Container sprawl adds complexity for I&O teams struggling to keep up with app modernization.
We’ll cover lessons from 300K instances provisioned at hundreds of customers. As a Leader in the Cloud Management Platform MQ, Morpheus provides rapid value and a 100% agnostic approach. Topics include cost control, governance, and self-service automation.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 06:55 PM|Tuesday, December 10, 2019 07:15 PM
Data regulation and requirements for compliance are increasing, putting pressure on organizations to gain control of all the unstructured data that’s been collecting for years. Without a plan to understand and manage the vast sums of files both on-premises and at the edge, organizations risk steep fines, reputational damage, and business exposure. Join us to learn how to master your data to deliver actionable and effective business governance.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 07:00 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 07:45 AM
David Mccall, Director of Innovation, QTS
QTS will demonstrate the industry’s first multi-tenant, API-driven Service Delivery Platform (SDP) built upon a microservices architecture. Available to every QTS customer, SDP provides unprecedented visibility and real-time access to critical hybrid colocation metrics, the ability to order new services in minutes, and on-demand oversight and control of their deployments easily, from a single platform optimized for mobile devices.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 07:00 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:00 AM
In order to determine the location of your desired topic; please see the color-coded topic display chart upon entering Hall D. Networking Topics are as follows.
Cost Optimization Opportunities in I&O:
The future of AI on I&O:
Modernizing Technical Debt Optimization:
The Impact of Cloud on Your Disaster Recovery Strategy:
Tracking Software Licenses in the Cloud:
Virtualization management:
The future of networking:
Desktop virtualization:
Dealing with an aging workforce:
How do you deal with social media within your organization:
Trends in security for I&O:
Products over projects – what does that mean for I&O?:
Diversity & inclusion in I&O:
The impact of Edge on I&O:
What are you doing to better partner with the business?:
Is the Internet of Things (IoT) impacting your I&O org?:
I&O Experiences with public cloud and SaaS:
Hyperconverged systems:
Should I&O Care about blockchain:
Effectively communicating with the C-level:
New organizational structures for I&O:
First-Timers
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 07:00 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:00 AM
Tiny Haynes, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Examines the new approaches to security, from a block and prevent posture, to including prediction and response. Covering areas such as Cloud Workload Protection Program, Cloud Access Security Brokerage and DevSecOps.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 07:00 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019 07:00 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM
Thomas Bittman, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
2020 will be the year when edge computing expands from pilots to broader deployments. Edge computing is an integral part of the digital business journey, blurring physical and digital and leveraging deeper interactions between people, things and businesses, and stretching the enterprise infrastructure from the cloud to the edge.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM
Stephen White, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations have struggled to advance Software Asset Management (SAM) maturity. A lack of SAM maturity increasingly impacts digital initiatives through an absence of required insight and unforeseen costs. Is a third-party software asset management service right for your organization? In this session we address the case for SAM-managed services, the providers and developing the service scope.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM
Douglas Toombs, VP Analyst, Gartner
The pace of innovation in cloud computing has brought significant changes to data processing, but these changes have also highlighted the challenges that established organizational structures face in attempting to keep up. This is especially true in the realm of IT governance. This session will focus on evolving organizations toward more adaptive governance strategies, aiming to make organizations more nimble while also managing risk, and investment prioritization decisions.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM
David Cappuccio, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The future of IT will not be on-premises, in the cloud, in IoT or at the edge. But rather IT will transform into a combination of all of these. Rather than being defined by the technology, it will be driven by business outcomes. This transformation of IT infrastructures must evolve to support workload deployments at the right time, on the right provider, at the right cost, anywhere in the world, quickly. This session will discuss trends and best practices on this journey.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM
Tim Zimmerman, VP Analyst, Gartner
IoT has potential issues everywhere: connectivity, security, segmentation and addressing. This presentation reviews each of the issues and how they affect the enterprise. It delivers a framework that can be used for an enterprise strategy.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM
Ed Anderson, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Migrating applications to cloud is just the first step in recognizing the full benefits of cloud. To achieve the greatest cost efficiencies ongoing optimization is required. This session will outline a methodology for using cloud cost management and governance to tune your cloud-based applications to get the greatest possible efficiency.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM
Tony Harvey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session looks at how to reuse infrastructure delivery across a portfolio and allow reuse between workloads and applications. IT organization must manage a hybrid delivery model dependent on resources, location, scale and state of new and core IT applications and infrastructure and application patterns: Key issues include:
1) How to reuse applications and workload delivery for the core.
2) What are the infrastructure delivery considerations for cloud and edge applications.
3) How to optimize reuse to reduce risk and cost for new projects, while rationalizing junk.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM
Chirag Dekate, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
I&O Leaders are seeking ways to apply AI in IT management. Gartner has identified five ways through which I&O Leaders commonly apply AI.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM
Ted Corbett, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Digital business, cloud and IoT have thrust dramatic new requirements onto existing enterprise networks, which are challenging I&O leaders to reconsider network sourcing strategies for strategic, operational and economic reasons. Network leaders should consider the short-term and long-term effects of their DIY vs. MNS sourcing decisions. #polling
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM
Mike Cisek, VP Analyst, Gartner
Midsize Enterprise (MSE) CIOs cite culture and resources as the biggest barriers to digital transformation at scale. The inherent staffing, skills and budget constraints within MSEs make innovation key to survival. In this session, MSE CIOs will learn the tactics required to overcome constraints and create a sustainable culture of innovation.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 08:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:15 AM
Kenneth Gonzalez, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
This session will cover the guidance senior leaders and subject matter experts need to know to determine which ServiceNow modules to evaluate, how to conduct realistic evaluations, understand how to use maturity when estimating license needs, what questions to ask about future product roadmaps and negotiation strategies.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Join IBM in the Services engagement zone to discuss Multicloud Services and Cyber Resiliency. Also view IBM client experiences.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Nutanix Engagement Zone
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:00 AM
Ephraim Baron, Director of Product Development, Taos
Cloud computing is not a technology discussion, it’s a business discussion. To survive and thrive in cloud’s variable OpEx world, organizations need a comprehensive finance strategy. This session will explore FinOps – the merging of cloud finance and operations – and provide specific recommendations for effectively controlling cloud spending without limiting its benefits.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:00 AM
Joe Carvalho, Principal Engineer, Intel
Carolyn Henry, Sr Dir Strategic Marketing Datacenter, Intel
The data centric world creates new challenges for the data center. Over half the world’s data was generated in the past two years, and only 2% has been analyzed. How does your business quickly deploy optimal infrastructures? Your business needs to look at how they can move data faster, efficiently store and access data, and process everything. Come hear how we are delivering solutions to help you solve your most critical business challenges.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:00 AM
Dylan Boday, Director, Cognitive/Scale-out Sys., IBM
Jesse Harmon, Team Lead UNIX and Linux System Administrator, Dillard's Inc.
Bhavanandan Rathinasamy, Data Analyst, Dillard's Inc.
AI is beyond hype. But as the landscape of AI has shifted from pipedream to practical, many organizations haven’t figured out the right infrastructure to support their AI initiatives and drive business insights. AI isn’t one size fits all; AI is complex and infrastructure matters. Tune into this session to learn the Data, Train and Inference workflow and why AI success demands the right infrastructure at each stage in the journey. Learn about building the proper AI foundation and how that AI plays both on-premises and in a multicloud world.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:00 AM
OCC clears over 5B financial contracts a year and is the central counterparty for all U.S. exchange-listed options trades. Learn how OCC modernized through intelligent monitoring to gain comprehensive observability across their multi-cloud IT infrastructure while operating in a highly regulated environment. Walk away with tips on how to use AIOps across your own infrastructure to predict spikes and prevent costly outages.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:00 AM
Jeff Ready, Chief Executive Officer, Board Member, Co-founder, Scale Computing
As computing needs continue to become more complex and data is being collected and utilized far beyond the limits of the data center, infrastructure at the edges of the network has become critical.
Learn how solution providers are addressing this market by deploying edge infrastructure that has the capacity to run various IT/OT workloads, is space-conscious, and can be managed at each individual location.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:00 AM
Vincent Sola, Manager, Application Administration, AMC Theatres
Dan Ellsweig, Emterprise Management Architect, Coty Inc
Ali Siddiqui, Head of AIOps and Monitoring Segment, Broadcom
IT teams are under pressure to deliver exceptional customer experiences while driving operational efficiency. But, how do you do this when IT is more complex than ever, enterprises are drowning in data, tool sprawl and teams need to do more with less? In this session, we’ll explore how leading organizations such as AMC and Coty are addressing these challenges using AIOps and intelligent automation.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:00 AM
Yusuf Jamal, Sr. Vice President Devices and Platforms, Western Digital Corporation
The tsunami of data – created by humans and machines – is quickly propelling us into the zettabyte era. Can your data infrastructure keep up with the growing scale and complexity of workloads, applications and AI/IoT datasets? Come hear three trends that are driving fundamental change in new at-scale, TCO-optimized architectures and efficient data strategies for the zettabyte era.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:00 AM
Chris Hunt, Services Sales Executive, Curvature
ETIENNE GADIENT, Managing Partner, CloudLogic
Aligning Digital Transformation to an IT strategy can be costly and fail to achieve enterprise goals. Modernizing the application and infrastructure portfolio is crucial to remain competitive, yet continuing to be driven to DO MORE WITH LESS requires an innovative approach. Learn how to take a programmatic, strategic approach, combined with the tools, technologies, processes and people while driving cost savings and shorter time to service.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:00 AM
Puneet Ramaul, Manager, HCL
IT Ops needs to support an environment providing operational readiness for all mission critical services. Analytics and AI can maximize IT efficiency and drive user confidence. This session will demonstrate how DRYiCE AIOPS products drive availability and efficiency, making the most of AI and ML.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:00 AM
Molly Presley, Global Product Marketing, Qumulo
Global organizations are grappling with how to leverage the enormous power of cloud computing and cloud applications to increase their competitive edge and accelerate time to market with new innovations.
Join our roundtable to gain insights from different industries across Research Computing, Media & Entertainment and Fortune 100 Enterprise on how they are architecting workflows to take advantage of the power of cloud computing.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:00 AM
Wes Hummel, VP of Infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineering, PayPal
Budgets are shrinking. You are being asked to do more with less. The economy is volatile and uncertain. Technology is changing at a rapid pace. You have a lot of tech debt. You need an organization that can not only consistently respond to these challenges, but also enable innovation and growth in your business. With the right talent, automation, and a scalable organization with a focus on DevOps, it’s possible to address these headwinds and set your organization on a path to be a weapon in your company’s arsenal.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:00 AM
Brian Diegan, Director of Infrastructure Services, First National Bank
The case study covers the implementation of a converged infrastructure. Moving from a complex and time-consuming infrastructure to standardized and simplified infrastructure.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:00 AM
Brandon Pulsipher, Vice President, Adobe Technical Operations, Adobe
Adobe’s Digital Experience Operations has experienced a decade of extraordinary growth — it has grown by 7600% (342 trillion transactions in 2018)…and that only accounts for volume, not complexity.
With that incredible growth has come incredible challenges: how do we continue our mind-boggling in size and sophistication trajectory, while keeping individual customers happy? How, in short, do we scale?
Our answer? a shift from “hero firefighter” culture shift to a “build awesome fire suppression systems” culture. In other words, a DevOps transformation.
This is our story of how Adobe Operations has (and still is!) embracing a DevOps culture by leading from the roots and from the top, how we’re measuring our progress, where we’ve succeeded (and still are working to succeed), and what we’ve learned along the way.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:00 AM
George Brady, Executive Vice President, Technology, Capital One
Financial services pioneer Capital One has just undergone a comprehensive, seven-year digital and technology transformation as part of its efforts to build the bank of the future. In this talk, Capital One’s Executive Vice President, Technology, George Brady, will share insights from the company’s technology transformation, how it has accelerated innovation for customers, and what other legacy enterprises born in the mainframe and distributed computing era can learn from the journey.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:00 AM
David John, VP Infrastructure & Operations, Texas Mutual
You knew how to work! You knew how to engage! You knew what to expect! What just happened? As companies go through digital transformations, I&O is sometimes an afterthought. As an I&O leader, how do you prepare, engage, and help lead the organization through these changes? This session will share the surprises, challenges, and constant change within I&O as their business began the journey of digital transformation.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM
Raj Patnam, VP Global Solutions, Science Logic
A recent survey indicates only 12% of enterprises have transitioned to modern tools, and 37% are only using legacy. This session will help you understand the negative impact that legacy tools have on digital transformation initiatives and provide best practices to build your foundation for AIOps.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM
Bryan Bond, Dir, IT Infrastructure, eMeter, A Siemens Business
Sazzala Reddy, CTO & Co-Founder, Datrium
Learn how Siemens & other customers are working w/ Datrium to build their DR and disaggregated HCI strategies to achieve significant results: 33% faster development
75% lower TCO
10x faster recovery
Only pay for Cloud DR when needed, using DRaaS w/ VMware Cloud on AWS
Continuous DR compliance checks w/ automatic audits and reporting
Instantly restart any VMware workload from cost-effective S3
Recovery from ransomware attacks or natural disasters
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM
Todd Weeks, Group Vice President, Plex Systems
In this session you will learn how Plex Systems, a leader in SaaS ERP, MES, and Industrial IoT software for manufacturers, is leveraging integrated solutions from Virtana, Cisco and Dell-EMC to bring Application workload and Infrastructure Performance analytics to a new level. The combined result empowers IT applications and operations teams with powerful, unrivaled AIOps capabilities, ensuring business continuity and business efficiencies.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM
Kumar Ramachandran, CEO, CloudGenix
John Spiegel, Sr Manager, Infrastructure, Columbia
Columbia Sportswear deployed SDWAN, realizing 70% lower WAN costs, highspeed multi-cloud access and dev-ops agility for the WAN. To succeed, many pitfalls had to be overcome - selecting the right technology, addressing resiliency, security, and compliance, negotiating broadband contracts, and ensuring operational readiness were all critical. Hear the keys to success with SD-WAN from Columbia's John Spiegel and CloudGenix CEO Kumar Ramachandran.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM
Jay Rudrachar, Director Technology, Fannie Mae
Mortgage giant, Fannie Mae, has transformed their IT monitoring landscape with the inclusion of AI & ML. This not only aids in faster issue detection/resolution, but also breaks down silos to provide better team collaboration. Implementation included extensive integrations, contextual data enrichment, workflow processes and automation. RESULT: Fewer incidents, lower MTTR, improved operational efficiency & customer digital experience.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM
Josh Williams, VP of Solution Engineering, INAP
Todd Harris, CEO, Skillshot Media
TJ Waldorf, Vice President of Global Marketing, INAP
Bolstered by a fast growing online gaming and streaming ecosystem, esports is officially mainstream. Powering the industry—including tourneys, broadcast feeds and voice chat—demands sophisticated infrastructure and network design. Learn five essential lessons applicable to any enterprise from I&O leaders at Hi-Rez Studios, industry-leading game publisher of SMITE, and INAP, global provider of high-performance data center and cloud solutions.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM
Brian Talbert, Director, Network & Connectivity Solutio, Alaska Air Group
SD-WAN is often seen as a cost-savings play, but the truth is that cost-savings are just the enabler for much more important business transformation outcomes. SD-WAN also comes with complexities due to reliance on the Internet. Learn key lessons on how with the right objectives, planning, data, architecture, stakeholder communication and operational preparation your SD-WAN project can achieve great cost savings and drive your business forward.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM
Rupesh Chokshi, AVP - Intelligent Edge, AT&T
Sanjay Uppal, , VMware
No other technology in networking history has been as ascendant or transformative as SD-WAN. In this session, VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud and AT&T leaders discuss how SD-WAN has become the technological foundation on which enterprises are now basing their business strategy, delivering and enabling hyperscale capabilities, and the roadmap that enables you to kick some backdoor and take names.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM
Bryan Jenneweim, Product Marketing Director, IT Markets, Splunk
IT orgs are shifting toward a new operating model that integrates development and operations cycles to better enable monitoring, collaboration and automation. The catalyst for all of this is AI and ML. As teams transform, teams are extracting value from legacy investments, using data-driven approaches to improve insights, decisions and time to value, and improving collaboration by building trust between IT, Development, and the lines of business.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM
Daniel McGinniss, Sr. Director, Data Center Marketing, Cisco Systems
Businesses want 100% uptime and they want it soon. Current network tools that organizations are equipped with don't address the needs of a modern data center network – one that can seamlessly extend from on-premises hardware into a distributed multicloud environment. What’s happening on Day 2 and what needs to change? Hear how Cisco can address common challenges of fragmented, reactive network tools with intelligent automation and assurance.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:15 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM
Jeff Brown, CEO, Open Systems
The transformation in today’s enterprises is driving the rapid adoption of a fundamentally different networking and security model. Learn how a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform serves the secure access needs of digital business and edge computing. It puts access to networking and security functions as close to the user as a cloud-based service, dramatically increasing network security, flexibility and performance.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:30 PM
Skyla Loomis, Director, IBM Z - IMS and z/TPF, IBM
Barry Baker, Vice President, Software, IBM Z, IBM
Cloud has entered a new era with enterprise-driven innovation, mission-critical workloads, and embedded digital/AI at scale. How can you accelerate cloud transformation without increasing risk or impacting service levels?
In this session you'll learn how to get the cloud you want - with the privacy and security you need. Discover how to keep your data protected and private across hybrid multicloud environments with encryption everywhere while reducing the impact of planned and unplanned downtime with instant recovery. And see how to simplify life for your developers with cloud native app development and app modernization across your hybrid multicloud.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:45 PM
Chirag Dekate, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
I&O leaders today are working aggressively in two specific ways: Provisioning infrastructure for business unit stakeholders and ingesting AI techniques to improve I&O efficiencies. Across several hundreds of Gartner inquiries and engagements, Gartner has identified I&O best practices that characterize highly successful and productive AI I&O ecosystems.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:45 PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:45 AM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:45 PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:15 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:35 PM
Tony Harvey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session looks at the new Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities for Hyperconverged Infrastructure and the six workloads of consolidated, business critical, cloud, edge, ROBO and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) use cases.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:15 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:35 PM
Jonathan Forest, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
In this session we will review the WAN Edge Magic Quadrant and the vendors evaluated. We will discuss strengths and weaknesses of different vendors and use cases where some vendors are more applicable than others. We will also discuss the future of the market and items to consider for future procurement decisions.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:05 PM
Cybersecurity for IT systems can feel like playing a game of roulette where the longer you play, the more likely you are to go home a loser. The hard truth is that almost all of the recent security breaches occur on vulnerabilities KNOWN to IT security teams at the time of exploit.
Come learn how the principle of SecOps is delivering hope and results for teams stuck betting against the cybersecurity roulette wheel.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:05 PM
David Buffo, Senior Consultant, Dell Technologies Consulting, Dell Technologies
Moving to a hybrid cloud model doesn’t happen overnight. But some organizations have more false starts than others. In this session, we’ll help you map out the 4 key workstreams required for implementing your hybrid cloud. We’ll also cover best practices, “what good looks like,” and lessons learned from Dell Technologies Consulting, including examples from past implementations.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:15 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:35 PM
Vikram Belapurkar, Sr. Manager, Product and Solutions Marketing, Pivot3
Video is often associated with physical security, but businesses are now extracting intelligence from video to optimize business outcomes. Considering video-based computing and analytics to better understand customer behavior and increase profits? Ensure your infrastructure can handle the needs of video workloads. We’ll discuss strategies to deal with rapidly-growing video data to maximize value while ensuring simplicity in datacenter operations.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:15 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:35 PM
Thomas Sweet, Vice President in IT Solutions, GM Financial
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 02:30 PM
Julia Dhar, Business Strategist, Champion Debater,
Some days, it feels like the only thing we can agree on is that we can't agree -- on anything. Drawing on her background as a world debate champion, Julia Dhar offers three techniques to reshape the way we talk to each other so we can start disagreeing productively and finding common ground -- over family dinners, during work meetings and in our national conversations.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 02:30 PM
Dennis Smith, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will allow attendees to ask questions about how to select the right tools for multicloud management. This includes third-party cloud management platforms and more functionally focused tools along with native-cloud offerings.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 02:30 PM
Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The container and Kubernetes ecosystem is immature and lacks operational best practices, but adoption of containers and Kubernetes is increasing for legacy modernization and cloud-native applications. We outline best practices for I&O leaders to enable and expedite container deployment in production environments.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 02:30 PM
Jeffrey Hewitt, Research VP, Gartner
This session will focus on sharing the best practices for getting most out of investments in hyperconverged infrastructure. From strategy and planning, to vendor choice, to purchase, tips and techniques that have proven to be successful will be outlined and discussed. A tactical focus on business returns will be prominent in this session because of the high growth in hyperconverged infrastructure adoption that continues across almost all industries.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 02:45 PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 02:45 PM
Mark Lockwood, VP Analyst, Gartner
Microsoft Windows 10 and its rapid update cycle has caused untold chaos within IT departments. In this Gartner-led Roundtable, discuss with your peers the options for deploying Windows 10, performing OS and application testing, and abstracting Win32 applications.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 02:45 PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 02:45 PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 01:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 02:45 PM
Kenneth Gonzalez, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
This roundtable will address how continuous improvement methods are used in driving organizational change in support of key business outcomes. We will highlight key items from Gartner research, address where and how often these techniques are used and what results have come from this. Come here to discover ideas and examples from your peers for transforming your organization.
This session format will be that of a focus group, with an emphasis on peer interactions that will potentially be leveraged for research input and direction.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 02:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
Liran Tancman, CEO, Rezilion*
Modern production environments are transforming at an overwhelming pace by adopting automated DevOps technologies because they enable speed and scale. What is a Cloud Workload Protection Platform? What can security teams learn from DevOps? And how can the DevOps "pets versus cattle" approach solve for security at scale?
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
In this session you will learn about Bio Rad’s key criteria of success for WAN edge transformation, including:
● Optimized bandwidth utilization: For dozens of sites, there were significant improvements to speed and latency after deploying SD-WAN
● Standardized and templated configurations
● Easy management console for monitoring and analyzing branch sites via a single pane of glass with contextual visibility to apps, performance and security
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
Doug Gourlay, Vice President/GM, Arista
Truman Boyes, SVP Infrastructure, Major League Baseball
Executives from Major League Baseball and Arista Networks discuss evolving the MLB infrastructure towards a software-provisioned and automated environment using cloud-native principles. Hear how the projects were funded and positioned internally, the business drivers and technology, and what kind of solutions were deployed in this multi-vendor environment linking public and private clouds with stadiums and facilities all across the country.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
Building a modern enterprise information infrastructure presents a formidable challenge that requires infrastructure software (OS and virt.), distributed software defined storage, and a management interface with system monitoring and diagnostics. This presentation will illustrate how Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and Acronis Cyber Cloud for the Enterprise enable organizations to solve this complexity in an easy, cost efficient, and secure manner.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
Tom Gillis, Senior Vice President/General Manager - NSBU, VMware
For decades we’ve relied on proprietary, bespoke, and expensive hardware to perform datacenter functions like networking, security, and load balancing. Today, these functions can be performed with distributed software running on x86 hardware. This software-based, scale out architecture running on general purpose hardware is the public cloud approach. In this session, learn how you can bring the public cloud experience to your datacenter and WAN.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
Todd Brannon, Product Marketing Sr. Director, Cisco Systems
Relevance: do you want it? When applications aren’t delighting customers the business is losing, and it’s time for infrastructure operations teams to get in the game. Connecting the dots across complex application and infrastructure landscapes requires visibility, insight, and action powered by analytics and automation. Join us to learn about new developments in continuous application assurance, where operations meet applications head-on.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
Jake Blough, CTO, Service Express, Inc.
Pull back the curtain on popular data center folklore. Get the straight talk on the realities of server and storage reliability long term and the meaning of end-of-life for hardware. Learn how to get the best OEM pricing for new equipment and how to uncover hidden lemons inside your infrastructure to preserve critical uptime. Steer your data center strategy with proven logic and actionable insights in this session.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
Matt De Vincentis, Sr. Director Product Marketing, Prisma, PALO ALTO NETWORKS
As applications move to the cloud, the old method of forcing branch and mobile user traffic back to corporate headquarters or data centers no longer makes sense. The future of network security is in the cloud, and Gartner calls it the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).
Join this session to learn about why a SASE approach is so important for your organization, and how to evaluate SASE solutions to find the right one for you.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
Marc Ashworth, Senior VP – Chief Information Security Officer, First Bank
Modern banking is driven by technology and customers expect 24/7 personalized service. First Bank’s legacy network was ill-equipped to keep pace.
The bank rearchitected its network, deploying Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect across 104 branches, ATMs and cloud instances.
Bandwidth increased by 65X, application performance by 35 percent, delivering the highest quality of experience to all constituents.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
Mattias Fridstrom, VP & Chief Evangelist, Telia Carrier
The dramatic shift within Enterprise networking over recent years has created a new world of truths. From our position as the world’s #1 Internet backbone, we debunk some common myths about connectivity and ask:
SD-WAN – big bang or smooth transition?
Ubiquitous Internet connectivity – reality or myth?
Cloud onramps – end-game or quick-fix?
Zero-touch and self-provisioning – as simple as it sounds?
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
Patricia Adams, Strategy Analysis, Flexera
Kim Weins, VP Strategy - Cloud and Spend Optimizati, Flexera
According to the 2020 Flexera State of Tech Spend report, cloud spend across IaaS/PaaS and SaaS now amounts to a quarter of IT budgets. However, organizations don’t yet have mature processes to optimize and govern the use of these new technologies. We’ll highlight 7 best practices to make sure you get the most from your cloud investments, including:
● How to create your cloud migration plan
● Managing the continuous nature of cloud spend
● Developing competencies around managing cloud
● Understanding the new world of cloud discounts
● Optimizing your use of software licenses in cloud
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:30 PM
Russ Kennedy, Chief Product Officer, Nasuni
Let’s face it. You HATE managing your legacy, NAS file systems. Dealing with multiple locations and back-ups is hard. Hope you never need to test your disaster recovery plan. Why is everything else moving to the cloud? Join us to learn how companies consolidate silos of file systems in the cloud, eliminate backup and DR pains and let anyone, anywhere in the world share and collaborate with files as if they were sitting across from each other.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:15 PM
Henrique Cecci, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Cloud computing is increasingly becoming a vehicle for next-generation digital business, as well as for agile, scalable and elastic solutions. The hype remains high, and adoption continues to increase. Nevertheless, organizations continue facing numerous challenges in adopting cloud. On this session, we review some of the main regional challenges of public cloud adoption, from a global perspective.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:15 PM
Mike Cisek, VP Analyst, Gartner
An agile decision-making framework to visually compare and contrast current infrastructure and application workloads against a dynamic vendor landscape filled with cloud-based solutions of varying maturity. Providing a simple yet effective way to communicate the organization's cloud strategy to business leaders looking to take advantage of cloud services' perceived benefits (e.g., decreased capital expenditures, shorter deployment cycles and agility) to drive growth and improve business outcomes.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:15 PM
Mark Cleary, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The rise of DevOps and agile methodologies is creating tension with ITSM as many organizations recognise that ITSM is old school and bureacratic. To ensure ITSM remains relevant, then we need to adopt agile approaches in order to improve the flow of business value
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:15 PM
Michael Silver, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will examine the TCO to run a digital workplace using various endpoint computing costs and will also explore the cost ramifications of moving from on-premises to a cloud office environment. We will use TCO models to help CIOs create cost-effective endpoint computing strategies around traditional PCs, Windows 10, desktop virtualization, use of Apple Macs, tablets, bring your own and choose your own device programs.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:15 PM
Julian Tirsu, Principal Analyst, Gartner
Most storage environments constitute ad hoc collections of disparate systems spread across various silos, leading to unmanageable datasets and large unknown data footprints. I&O leaders can manage data usage and growth by implementing these effective governance and data management strategies. This session will provide a framework that will help with proactive data retention in the enterprise.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:15 PM
Tim Zimmerman, VP Analyst, Gartner
Organizations must recognize the differing networking requirements for IoT use cases in order to deploy the correct network and security architecture and ecosystem, otherwise they will fail. This presentation reviews different market segments and analyzes usage scenarios to identify the network strategy needed to properly implement IoT solutions.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:15 PM
Chris Saunderson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Sweeping and disruptive changes are occurring to the vendors and the products in the DevOps toolchains marketplace. I&O leaders will understand what they are seeing and how to take advantage of it.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:15 PM
Chris Silva, VP Analyst, Gartner
A modern mobile and endpoint strategy designed to support a digital workplace initiative should encompass three fundamental elements:
- Broaden the range of employees to be served beyond the classic group of office workers to be inclusive of "frontline workers."
- Modernize workplace design and support through use of modern analytics techniques.
- Deliver a continuous and contextual workspace experience to users.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 03:45 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:15 PM
Daniel Bowers, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Just like the threesome delivery of cloud, on-premises and hosted, integrated systems are progressing three ways. Composability is driving administration, programmable infrastructure is driven by applications, intelligent infrastructure and machine learning is driving automation. This session looks at:
How does delivery impact the future of integrated systems and HCI?
What is the future path of composable, programmable, intelligent infrastructure?
How do you administer and automate infrastructure for application workloads?
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:15 PM
Andrew Lerner, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session describes modern best practices for building cloud friendly networks. This includes guidance for connecting to the cloud, across the cloud and within public and private cloud data centers. In addition to technological aspects, we also cover the people and cultural changes required.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:15 PM
Jonathan Forest, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
In this session we will take open questions regarding SD-WAN from the attendees answering questions, giving our perspectives on the market, and the future. This will be an open ask the analyst forum and interactive with the attendees. The objective is to address real world questions and tackle specific questions that are on the attendees minds.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:15 PM
Joe Skorupa, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
While hyperconverged systems rely on Ethernet for node interconnection, the degree of integration varies by vendor. This session examines the approaches and provides a framework for evaluating the options.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:15 PM
Chirag Dekate, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
For most organizations, artificial intelligence and machine learning remain buzzwords that seem out of reach. Gartner has recommended IT leaders adopt many AI best practices and technologies over the years, but what should IT leaders avoid? This talk will examine some of the ways AI projects fail and how to avoid them along with relevant case studies.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:15 PM
Roger Williams, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Digital business is only as strong as its infrastructure, yet I&O leaders struggle to adapt their technology, practices and staff to meet organizational needs. This session introduces Gartner's I&O ContinuousNext Capability Model and how to use its concepts of Stakeholder Intimacy, Portfolio Value and I&O Motility to enable sustained digital business success.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:15 PM
Paul Delory, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Automation is the watchword of modern, agile IT. And it often begins by automating server and application delivery. This talk offers in-depth, concrete guidance on (1) automating server provisioning and configuration management, and (2) building a continuous delivery pipeline. It takes a close look at the tools you’ll use, and the challenges you’ll face in implementing a DevOps methodology.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:15 PM
Neil MacDonald, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Cloud-native applications rely heavily on containers and serverless functions to build out event-driven, microservices based application architectures. Legacy on-premises security patterns won't work and won't scale for the needs of cloud native applications. This presentation will discuss the security patterns and best practices for securing cloud-native applications, including container security.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:15 PM
Bob Gill, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session applies Gartner's Strategic Roadmap framework to Edge Computing. This framework describes an idealized future state where Edge Computing is widely deployed, then examines the drivers, challenges, and milestones Enterprises should follow to maximize the potential benefits.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:15 PM
Paul Furtado, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Moving from on-premise to IaaS can introduce additional security risks. This session will discuss areas that midsize enterprises should be aware of and prepared to address when moving to the cloud. Preregistration is required. Seats are limited.
This session is a good fit for you if your organization has between five and 50 people in IT and an IT budget between $5 million and $30 million. We prequalify attendees for midsize enterprise sessions based on annual revenue between $50 million and $1 billion.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:15 PM
Michelle Duerst, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CIOs have delivered customer-centric hyperpersonalization capabilities as part of their digital initiatives, but are now facing a critical obstacle: Talent. CIOs must transform their organizations into workforce talent factories by applying the same concepts to their employee experience.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM
Katherine Lord, VP Analyst, Gartner
SLC exclusive- culture change is top of mind for all I&O leaders - yet it is one of the most challenging initiatives. Come and meet with your peers and discuss ideas/challenges and practical tactics to move forward with culture change
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019 04:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Diane Berry, VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital disruption changes the role of the CIO and the type of leader needed. CIOs need to put focus and refine their personal brand to ensure it reflects who you are and that have a respected digital leader. Participants will gain insight from Gartner analysts and their peers on what processes and tools can be used to build a powerful internal and external personal brand.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Sanjit Ganguli, VP Analyst, Gartner
NetOps and SecOps have been historically siloed, but the changing nature of threats and monitoring have created opportunities for these groups to align. This session will explore some of those methods.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Dennis Smith, VP Analyst, Gartner
Many I&O leaders struggle to identify a role for I&O in the development and/or execution of an enterprise cloud governance strategy. This research identifies several areas in which I&O can engage in the cloud governance process to improve cost optimization and security.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Tim Zimmerman, VP Analyst, Gartner
Over 90% of enterprises have unknown devices on their network right now and the risk is huge.
Today most enterprises have a defined process for corporate device connectivity as well as a guest access strategy. But common IoT devices, especially headless devices, require a new IT strategy that must discover, provision, secure, monitor and manage these 20B new devices. Without a new strategy, "unknown/unapproved" devices will destroy your network. This presentation explores how new devices are connecting, the short fall of existing IT strategies and the changes that must be made.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Mark Margevicius, VP Analyst, Gartner
Establishing a baseline and benchmark for how an organization is functioning is critical in getting better. Gartner's IT Score offers clients an approach for such measurements, as well as offering proven methods, approaches and best practices necessary for score improvement. Learn about the recipe of I&O success and how you can take tangible steps in getting better.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Michelle Duerst, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The war for customers and the future workforce has already begun. While organizations focus on personalization for their Customer Experience (CX), the Employee Experience (EX) is sadly lacking. This session will focus on CX examples from across industries that not only can be applied to EX, but also connect to other industries to increase overall value.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Julia Palmer, VP Analyst, Gartner
This presentation will provide technical insight on composable infrastructure, review the potential benefits, limitation and current market traction.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Tiny Haynes, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This presentation will examine the first step of migrating to the cloud. It will look at what DaaS is, how it can be used with migration and the pitfalls of an infrastructure lead migration over a workload migration.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Mike Cisek, VP Analyst, Gartner
Midsize Enterprise IT leaders enjoy great deal of autonomy and control over their environments. Staffing, skills and budget constraints weight heavily on I&O strategy, and making determining the right mix of cloud and on-premises challenging. Leading a small team requires the ability to execute in a secure, cost-effective manner, given the constraints inherent in Midsize Enterprises.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 05:30 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM
Jim Scheibmeir, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
In order to achieve digital business success, many IT leaders are driving agile adoption. Analysis of the results from 2015-2017 Agile in the Enterprise surveys have revealed a blueprint for agile success that can be linked to specific best practices and to organizational culture change. This session will present the Agile in the Enterprise survey results and share that blueprint for agile success.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 PM
Come join BigPanda for a party like no other. Great food, music, and drinks for everyone to enjoy. We can't wait to see you.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 06:00 PM|Wednesday, December 11, 2019 09:00 PM
Come and enjoy some amazing food and drinks and escape to a winter wonderland with Nutanix!
Thursday, December 12, 2019 07:00 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 08:00 AM
Thursday, December 12, 2019 07:00 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Thursday, December 12, 2019 07:00 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Not sure which exhibitors to meet with or what sessions to attend? Let Gartner Conference Concierge help you create a custom agenda and schedule meetings. Just email us at ConferenceConciergeNA@Gartner.com and we’ll be in touch soon.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 08:15 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:00 AM
Nicole Malachowski, Retired U.S. Air Force Col., First Woman Thunderbird Pilot, Combat Veteran,
What does it take to be the best? The individuals and teams who achieve at the highest levels have one thing in common: they push the envelope and go to the edge of boundaries. They accomplish as much as possible and do it to a standard of excellence. Pushing the envelope is an aviation term for taking an aircraft to the maximum limits of its abilities. In the business world, pushing the envelope means knowing yourself – certainly knowing your limits – all while using every bit of your ability to maximize your performance, be your best and be consistent. As a combat-tested fighter pilot and a member of the military’s most elite group of aviators (1 in 2,000 USAF pilots become Thunderbird pilots), Nicole Malachowski inspires audiences with lessons learned from a distinguished 21-year career – giving them the courage to push the envelope in their own lives. That means using inevitable failures to launch to the next level…preparing for turbulence, because change is unrelenting, and it is hard, but you must anticipate it…trusting in teammates’ skill and precision, while developing your own…and being mindful of the over-control that leads to performance malfunctions and mutes achievement. Nicole’s presentation provides an unforgettable and practical roadmap for individuals and organizations looking to make the most of their talents and efforts.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:00 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:00 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Join IBM in the Services engagement zone to discuss Multicloud Services and Cyber Resiliency. Also view IBM client experiences.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:00 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Nutanix Engagement Zone
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:15 AM
Dennis Smith, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will provide an update on the current state of container technology. This will include an analysis of the technology, the vendors that make up the ecosystem and the associated products. Additionally, the issues that enterprises are facing will be discussed. Finally, the session will also discuss how the technology and the industry will evolve in the upcoming three to five years.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:15 AM
Ron Blair, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
I&O provides a lot of metrics. But these metrics often miss the mark with decision-makers, resulting in increased technical debt and strategic obsolescence. “Business alignment” is spoken about frequently, but execution is challenging throughout the Gartner client base. Gartner has developed a methodology to integrate value-add, risk and corporate performance that helps achieve these goals.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:15 AM
Bob Gill, VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner conducted in-depth surveys with 200 Enterprises on their Edge Computing Use cases, motivators, inhibitors, and plans. We explore their answers in detail, and illuminate the top trends.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:15 AM
George Spafford, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
DevOps can greatly enhance a business but many organizations struggle to get started, and then find it difficult to balance speed and risk. Changes are required in culture, process, technology and skills. This session explores trends in how DevOps is currently being practicing the features of successful enterprises, and a future view to what successful enterprises will be doing in the future.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:15 AM
Angelina Troy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The pendulum swing between centralized and decentralized continues to swing and the hot topic this time is edge. This time, the pendulum may stop swinging. What does it mean to have edge infrastructure? In fact, what exactly is the edge? Discover what edge actually is, what it entails, and how you can start taking advantage of edge.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:15 AM
Kenneth Gonzalez, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
Adoption and usage of ServiceNow in recent years has skyrocketed -- along with the costs and complexity of product licensing and packaging. This makes it difficult for sourcing, IT and business unit leaders to determine exactly what， when, and how much they should purchase. This session will cover what’s needed to build reasonable estimates of the licenses required and their cost. #polling
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:15 AM
Federico De Silva, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As IT infrastructure and application complexity increases new architectures, the move to cloud and mobile, incumbent IT Operations Management (ITOM) offerings are being rendered ineffective. Even new and emerging providers, with their narrow focus, often find themselves at a disadvantage as they are not able to cover a broad and ever-changing IT environment. In this session, ask experts and collaborate with your peers to understand the key trends in the IT monitoring vendor landscape, their capabilities and how you can optimize your IT monitoring strategy.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:15 AM
Tony Harvey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Jeffrey Hewitt, Research VP, Gartner
Hybrid IT is the new normal and cloud vendors like Amazon, Google and Microsoft have introduced hybrid cloud products like Outposts, Anthos and Azurestack that tether your private cloud and edge systems to their public cloud. This presentation will provide an overview of the competitive landscape of tethered systems, how they compare to offerings from traditional vendors and how they can fit into your data center and Edge strategies. Applicable use cases will be outlined, and guidance will be provided on how this market will impact you.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:15 AM
Stephen White, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Digital initiatives are fueling cloud service adoption, making their metering, management and optimization an inescapable need in order to eliminate toxic consumption and minimize noncompliance. In this session we will address the following: What impact is cloud computing having on SAM? What’s SAM’s role in managing cloud assets? How can SAM adapt to meet the demand to manage cloud assets?
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:15 AM
Henrique Cecci, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Workload placement is a key driver of digital infrastructure delivery. Nevertheless, I&O leaders often struggle to find which workloads are best suited for which location — be it a public cloud, hosting, colocation, edge or on-premises. On this session, we review the typical workload placement strategies and considerations used by I&O leaders to maximize their business value results.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:15 AM
Chris Saunderson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Automation enables Infrastructure and Operations teams to reduce costs, build scalable infrastructure and achieve operational efficiency. I&O teams must leverage automation to drive business agility. This session covers the trends, technologies, tools and best practices needed to leverage and scale automation within your organization.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM
David Cappuccio, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Enterprises have begin designing long-term infrastructure strategies based on workload placement — and business impact. This approach integrates traditional on-premises, colocation, hosting, edge and cloud deployments. This session will be a discussion of what Gartner is hearing in the marketplace, and how attendees are developing new infrastructure strategies.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This clinic will illustrate and walk through how to use eight steps for planning negotiations with major vendors — megavendors, and new and emerging software and cloud vendors. These steps can and should be used for any major negotiation to ensure the right questions are asked and the right detail is revealed to analyze proposals from a cost- optimization and risk-mitigation standpoint. They focus on engaging the right IT and business stakeholders to identify requirements and then using stakeholders as part of the negotiation plan and strategy to optimize these deals to optimize and balance cost, value and risk.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM
Mike Cisek, VP Analyst, Gartner
How data centers within small server and storage footprints are leveraging hyperconvergence today? This session will discuss vendor selection criteria, deployment scenarios and the challenges with IT teams of less than 50 people.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 09:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:30 PM
Christopher Mixter, VP, Advisory, Gartner
In this session, structured to be 25% presentation and 75% peer discussion, we will review in-depth case studies from Lexis-Nexis and EY, whose Infrastructure leadership teams have installed new metrics, incentives, and workflows that drive their teams and individuals to innovate on (instead of merely protecting status quo) system and personal performance, to support the pace of change and speed-to-market imperatives of rapidly digitizing businesses.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:15 AM
Thomas Bittman, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Edge computing creates tremendous challenges. Innovations are needed in managing nanodatacenters to massive scale, ensuring edge computing security, enabling machine learning at the edge, and handling the explosion of IoT data at the edge. We discuss challenges, technologies and vendor strategies.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:15 AM
Padraig Byrne, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Application developers are rapidly adopting new architectures such as microservices and containers in order to be more agile and responsive to customer demand. But how do I&O teams, who are used to managing infrastructure that persists for weeks months or years manage in a world where it now lasts minutes or seconds?
In this talk:
1. What are these new technologies and why are they important?
2. How to monitor micoservices and containers?
3. What team and cultural changes need to happen to support this?
Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:15 AM
Daniel Bowers, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The rise of public cloud, containers and composable infrastructure have not killed the VM, but the game has changed. Join an analyst for detailed advice on managing modern hypervisors, including when to use VMs, containers and serverless, plus comparisons of VMware, Microsoft, Nutanix and Red Hat.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:15 AM
Julia Palmer, VP Analyst, Gartner
Welcoming new infrastructure technologies into data centers must be carefully navigated to transform your digital business. Organizations will gain insight into the timelines of maturity of flash technologies, storage class memory, new data center protocols, AI-driven operations, platforms for containers and microservices, hybrid cloud integration, edge computing, new consumption models and more.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:15 AM
Ron Blair, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Public cloud computing offers the potential for high levels of continuity but operational reliability cannot be taken for granted. Even the most reliable of cloud services requires some level of customer configuration and ongoing administration to enable the highest levels of processing redundancy and data protection. IaaS and SaaS are conceptually similar, but a successful cloud contingency effort must accommodate their unique differences.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:15 AM
David Wright, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Many I&O Leaders discover too late that moving data out of the Public Cloud has a hidden cost: Data Egress fees charged by their provider that they didn't know were coming. What are these costs, how do you plan for them, and how can you control them?
Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:15 AM
Andrew Lerner, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session describes emerging network technologies as identified in Gartner’s Enterprise Networking Hype Cycle. We cover a diverse set of topics ranging from Service Mesh to SDN as well as intent-based networking, network automation and several others.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:15 AM
Roger Williams, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CMDB investments can deliver substantial business benefits, yet many organizations repeatedly fail to achieve desired results. This presentation will address the following questions:
Why do CMDB efforts fail at such high rates?
How can I&O leaders use SACM to improve IT service delivery?
What vendors and resources can help improve SACM data quality?
Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Chris Silva, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will present the findings of Gartner's Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities for the Unified Endpoint Management market, solutions which are a critical building block for digital workplace transformation as a direct enabler of a workspace model of computing. This session will reveal the market's key players and the use-cases that are driving adoption of UEM in 2019 and beyond.
Gartner advises mobile, wearable and endpoint computing strategists to familiarize themselves with this market today, even if adoption of UEM and displacement of legacy tools such as Client Management Tools (CMT) is a future strategy.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Tim Zimmerman, VP Analyst, Gartner
The advent of machine learning for problem resolution and redundant continue to clear the path to repurpose network administrator resources away from the access layer. This presentation looks at using automation, supervised and unsupervised machine learning as well as AI to discover, identify, provision, secure, segment, and monitor and vendor progress to put the access layer on autopilot.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Michael Hoeck, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
While the idea of cloud contingency planning as a means of risk management has been around for over a decade, it’s not been widely adopted. However, with the increasingly complex IT ecosystem, the idea is resurfacing in business strategy conversations and regulatory evaluations for resilience. In this session, we will cover what IT leaders need to understand in terms of the options, if it’s possible, and where organizations should consider starting this practice.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Julian Tirsu, Principal Analyst, Gartner
Increased data growth has created an unstructured data nightmare. To effectively gain overall consensus, mitigate security concerns, and manage dark data, organizations will need to deploy the right strategy and tools. This presentation outlines common use cases to help I&O leaders manage unstructured data and establish an indispensable data governance strategy.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Jim Scheibmeir, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Systems are increasing in complexity as end users experience expectations have also heightened. Infrastructure and Operations Leaders responsible for experience and reliability and must overcome their fear of Chaos Engineering as a means to achieve it. Chaos Engineering can be done safely, and allows for organizational learning, increase in reliability, and a greater understanding of complex system dependencies.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Mark Lockwood, VP Analyst, Gartner
Poor use cases, lack of understanding of options, and lack of governance leads many organizations toward massive VDI sprawl. I&O leaders must avoid this sprawl, or eliminate it, and restrict the use of virtual desktops to only where they make absolute sense. But how? This session will explore use cases, reduction methods, and alternatives to help organizations reduce or eliminate virtual desktops.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:30 AM|Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Jeffrey Hewitt, Research VP, Gartner
The ongoing rise of integrated systems， hybrid cloud and edge computing has put significant pressure on traditional IT thinking. This session will demonstrate how utilizing a ecosystem framework can advance infrastructure and operations approaches to be able to deal more effectively with the challenges presented by evolving technologies and produce more long-term business-favorable returns. #polling