Data Center professionals have a clear goal to deliver cost-effective services for business benefit. Virtualization and Cloud Computing, however, are clouding the picture having become top CIO priorities. To maintain the position of “trusted” service provider, you need to dispel the myth that these technologies allow IT to be bypassed. Meanwhile, the Data Center mandate to manage facilities, power and cooling and improved capacity planning continues to increase pressure. Establishing the true innovations that you can offer to lower costs, improve service levels and support growth is mission-critical.

Gartner will help you identify the appropriate investment priorities to lock into your plan for business success. This Summit will provide the latest advice to improve your maturity in organizational transformation, process adoption and technology implementation.

No other conference offers comprehensive coverage of the full spectrum of issues that impact the data center:

• Servers
• Operating systems
• Storage
• Facilities
• Business continuity and disaster recovery
• Mobility