Gartner 24th Annual Data Center Conference (5-8 December 2005)

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Overview

FREE Gartner Research on CD-ROM
You will receive FREE Gartner Research on CD-ROM when you pick up your conference information at registration.

The FREE CD-ROM will be available only on Sunday night, December 4th from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.

Virtualization... ILM... business resiliency... operations infrastructure efficiency... the escalating battle between Windows and Linux. These are some of the hottest topics in data center management right now — and will be headlining the agenda at the 24th Annual Gartner Data Center Conference.

Last year's event was the best-attended themed event in Gartner history as nearly 1400 data center professionals converged in Las Vegas to hear the latest data center recommendations from the globally renowned Gartner analyst team.

Every year, Gartner surveys data center executives to identify their most critical concerns. Our 20 plus senior analyst team will craft an up-to-the-minute agenda which will directly respond to your top concerns. Some of those concerns already identified are:

• Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI): Last year, two-thirds of our attendees told us that RTI was an organization imperative. This year, we will be focusing on helping user organizations build and implement a strategic plan for this architecture in order to lower IT costs, increase IT efficiency and agility and prioritize IT investments
• Servers and storage: Learn what's in the cards for consolidation, workload management, procurement and life cycle best practices as well as ILM, GRID, Window vs. Linux.
• IT Operations: Gartner is finding that IT organizations who re-engineer their operational processes and invest in automation are achieving significant benefits in terms of increasing agility, service quality and reducing costs.
• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery: The popularity of this new track at our 2004 event affirms how high a priority this has become — as the serious consequences of business disruptions continues to grow.
• Virtualization: We'll be looking at the way new virtualization technologies will impact the market — in the way users deploy hardware and the types of hardware procured. Gartner research will guide you to both the services and technologies that offer the greatest ROI — and the obstacles to avoid in implementing a virtualized center.

And, of course, with this being the 24th Annual Data Center Conference, you can expect o have topics addressing your organizational needs for 24 x 7 availability.

Who Should Attend

Over the past 23 years, thousands of data center professionals — running some of the largest data centers in the world - have attended Gartner Data Center conferences. This is a must-attend event for:

IT Professionals:
IT Operations, Data Center and Consolidated Operations Executives, Storage Planners.

Business Executives
Managers, Project Leaders, Asset Managers and Planners, and vendors involved in developing, marketing, and maintaining products and services for IT Operations Center

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Thank You
David.K