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Gartner Data Center Summit 2013Taking Charge, Leading Change: Your I&O Transformation Can’t Wait

25 – 26 November I London, UK I gartner.com/eu/datacenter

Sessions mapped to your key prioritiesThe infrastructure and operations (I&O) organization is on the brink of a revolution fueled by the forces of mobile, social, cloud and information technologies. I&O leaders stand at the center of it all, challenged to ensure a stable enterprise infrastructure while supporting the agility required to act on new business opportunities.

Attend the Gartner Data Center Summit to benefit from sessions addressing your key challenges.

What best practices improve the economic and financial value of your data center services?

• Data Center Economics – How to Run a Financially Efficient Data Center

• Prioritizing Infrastructure Investment using Gartner’s IT Market Clocks

• Improve IT Services or Lose Them

Is cloud the route to long-term data center savings?

• Climbing the Cloud Orchestration Curve

• The Impact of Client Computing Change on the Data Center

• Embracing Mobile and Cloud services in the Data center

How to manage big data before it manages you

• IT Operations Analytics: Big Data for the Data Center

• Information 2020: Big Data and Beyond

• Met Office Big Data and Impact on the Data Centre

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How is virtualization changing IT organizations and processes?

• Virtualization Scenario: The Road to Software Defined Anything –SDx

• When to Consider a Second Virtualization Technology for Your Portfolio.

• Maintain Software License Compliance under Virtualization

How to enable personal choice without compromising data center security or compliance

• Best practices for managing Risk and Agility in the data center

• Managing Global Recovery and Continuity Risk

• Balancing Risk and Agility in Data centre Operations

How should IT evaluate vendors’ benefits and promises?

• Megavendor Focus: Cisco, IBM, Microsoft & Oracle

• ITSSM Tools Magic Quadrant

• How to Manage and Track Software Licenses in the Cloud

What are the sustainability trends impacting Data Centers?

• The Sustainable Datacenter Framework

• Transforming IT at the 600 year old University of St Andrews

• Balancing Risk and Agility in Data centre Operations

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How does Mobility impact the data center?

• How to Create Your Mobile Strategy

• BYOD programs – The Cost Element

• The Mobile Effect: Data Center Impact of Mobility

How can IT define and align IT services to express and deliver business value?

• Improve IT Services or Lose Them

• Leveraging Technology, Cultivating Innovation andDemonstrating Value Through Devops

• Shaping the Future of IT Operations

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What are the evolutionary trends affecting the future of the storage/server market?

• Storage Technologies That Lower Cost andImprove VDI Performance

• Planning Server Investments Amid a Tsunamiof Change

• Progress Report on Software Defined Storage

What are the emerging trends in data center design?

• Best Practices in Data Center Design and Optimization

• Slash Your Enterprise Network Spending - Welcome to the Buyer's Market

• The Intelligent Data Center - What Will Unfold Over the Next Five Years

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WHAT’S NEW IN 2013?

The Nexus of Forces: Mobile, cloud, information and social brings new challenges and new opportunities within I&O. Data Center leaders will receive a framework to prioritize and manage their portfolio of services and investments to deliver value while extending their vision to include the Nexus.

Mobility: BYOD is challenging traditional mobility policies. We have a completely new track that will explore the best practices of deploying BYOD, evaluate the risk associated and assess the various mobility alternatives (including hosted virtual desktops) for I&O executives coupled with mobile device management.

IT Leadership: Demonstrating the value of IT is critical and IT decision making is becoming complex. I&O leaders will learn effective ways of communicating the importance of IT - and the value it delivers - to business leaders and stake holders in their organizations.

Vendor Selection/Management: Data Centre leaders continue to focus on maximizing the ROI on various IT investments, with a focus on astute negotiations, minimizing the associated risks and leveraging vendor relationships. The summit will address issues regarding: What vendors do you consider or choose for what reason? How should IT evaluate vendors’ promises?

Which vendors will play leading roles in I&O? etc.

Economics of the Future Data Center

Cloud-Enabled Data Center Landscape

Business Impact of Mobility

Maintaining the Data Center Mission

Driving the technology Revolution

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