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Sunday
04:00 PM to 06:00 PM | |
Sunday
04:30 PM to 05:00 PM | |
| For first-time attendees or alumni who want a refresher, we provide a comprehensive look at the Data Center Conference, including new features of this year's event, a review of key networking opportunities, and a virtual tour of our conference site. We top it all off with "insider" tips and tricks for getting the most out of your conference experience.
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Sunday
04:30 PM to 06:00 PM | |
| Gartner’s ITScore for Infrastructure & Operations is a maturity model that enables you to ascertain where to focus to make the largest improvement in I&O as fast as possible. During this Gartner analyst facilitated workshop, you will exercise the model to estimate the maturity of your I&O environment. Additionally, you will be working with peers to devise best practices to improve I&O in four critical dimensions: people, process, technology and business management. (This workshop is designed as a hands-on companion to Session C10 The I&O Maturity Model for 2011: A Road Map to Excellence; however, you do not necessarily need to attend both to obtain a lot of value!) |
Sunday
05:15 PM to 06:15 PM | |
| Join your peers for an informal topic-based networking session to exchange ideas with attendees sharing similar interests, gain insight into initiatives others are working on, and share best practices. This will be a two part session: the first part of the session will be focused on the following three key data center topics: Cloud Computing, ITIL/Process Improvement, IT Modernization; the second part will be focused on three additional data center topics: Managing Storage Growth; Attracting, Developing and Retaining IT Personnel; Data Center Facilities. Participants will have the opportunity to choose the topics they are most interested in and attendees will be provided with a list of questions to help jumpstart the discussions. |
Sunday
05:15 PM to 06:15 PM | |
| In this open discussion forum end-user attendees will be invited to discuss their current state and planned next moves regarding virtualizing their development and test environments, their production servers, and their desktops. We will be open to suggestions about using virtualization for disaster recovery, data center consolidation, and any requirements for infrastructure management tools, techniques, and best practices. |
Sunday
06:00 PM to 08:00 PM | |
| Kick-off the Gartner Data Center Conference in style at the VCE Welcome Party! Enjoy cocktails and food while you network with industry executives and colleagues. |
Monday
07:00 AM to 07:45 AM | |
Monday
07:00 AM to 06:15 PM | |
Monday
07:45 AM to 08:00 AM | |
Monday
08:00 AM to 08:30 AM | |
Monday
08:30 AM to 09:30 AM | |
| The past is a myopic indicator of the future of technology, especially in data centers. There are internal trends, market trends and societal trends converging rapidly, and many of these will have dramatic effects on infrastructure and operations planning. This presentation will create a road map of the most crucial trends to watch during the next five years. |
Monday
09:45 AM to 10:30 AM | |
| Virtualization is an obligatory function—not a single technology, nor simply a set of technologies buried in infrastructure. It also has important ramifications for business use of IT, business itself, and for all aspects of IT, from architecture to development and on into production. Virtualization changes how IT is acquired, implemented, managed and used, and how software is priced and licensed. It means new forms of applications and delivery models, even becoming an enabler of cloud computing. Users will have their own virtualization visions, and build toward it with a constantly updated strategic plan.
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Monday
10:45 AM to 11:30 AM | |
| Cloud computing is coming to the enterprise from all directions, and quickly. Some services are quite mature, but most are not. The majority of enterprises are experimenting with public cloud services and building their own private cloud services, whether they know it or not. Cloud computing has tremendous promise, but the challenges and the dangers are bigger than most realize. Virtualization has morphed from a hot consolidation trend to a hot private cloud computing trend. The challenge is to keep up with the cloud computing juggernaut—leverage what works, avoid what doesn't, and plan for what's coming. |
Monday
11:30 AM to 01:30 PM | |
Monday
11:45 AM to 12:15 PM | |
| Addressing unpredictable demands from business, technology and compute models are challenges we all face. Learn how to leverage proven approaches to provide flexible, cost-effective and efficient data centers that can support your business growth in four simple ways to: extend the life of your existing data center; rationalize your overall data center portfolio; design new data centers and manage your IT and data center operations. |
Monday
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | |
| Hosted virtual desktops (HVDs) shows great promise in helping organizations achieve operational benefits by centralizing the desktop. Implementing HVDs is far more challenging than a simple PC replacement, though, .and we give insight as to the best technologies, processes, and best practices necessary for success |
Monday
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | |
| This roundtable will discuss both the challenges facing federal, state and local government agencies in the management of their disaster recovery and business continuity programs, along with specific approaches that have been taken to address budgetary, operations and staffing constraints.
NOTE: If you register for a Roundtable, please come prepared to share with the group a best practice, anecdote, idea or bit of advice as it relates to the topic. Roundtables are not presentations, but rather moderated discussions aimed at attendees sharing best practices and ideas. Analyst/User Roundtables are restricted to end user attendees only, and limited to approximately 12 participants. Pre-registration is required, but no additional fees apply. |
Monday
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | |
| The IT service/help desk provides invaluable service and support to the entire organization but is under constant pressure to improve its quality, take on additional responsibilities and lower its costs. This interactive session with your peers will focus on the metrics, best practices, people-skills, and processes that can be employed to increase the quality of IT service and support and optimize costs.
NOTE: If you register for a Roundtable, please come prepared to share with the group a best practice, anecdote, idea or bit of advice as it relates to the topic. Roundtables are not presentations, but rather moderated discussions aimed at attendees sharing best practices and ideas. Analyst/User Roundtables are restricted to end user attendees only, and limited to approximately 12 participants. Pre-registration is required, but no additional fees apply. |
Monday
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | |
| Green IT has become a leading topic in the span of two years. It has grown from a whisper to a major theme for most vendors. While couched in an environmental coating the main thrust has been aimed at saving money along with surviving the power and cooling crunch many data centers are experiencing. IT organizations must decide on how they are going to participate and if they are going to go beyond the economics and into the environmental aspects. Join us at this user round table to discuss with your peers what steps others are taking and how they view Green IT initiatives.
NOTE: If you register for a Roundtable, please come prepared to share with the group a best practice, anecdote, idea or bit of advice as it relates to the topic. Roundtables are not presentations, but rather moderated discussions aimed at attendees sharing best practices and ideas. Analyst/User Roundtables are restricted to end user attendees only, and limited to approximately 12 participants. Pre-registration is required, but no additional fees apply. |
Monday
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | |
| IT organizations are moving rapidly to leverage virtualization in order to become more cloud-like in terms of service delivery. But virtualization is only a small part of the battle. Delivery of the next-generation data center will require enterprises to think and act like the major cloud services providers. This means potentially challenging the conventional wisdom upon which 40 years of IT has been built. |
Monday
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | |
| IT operations has had to make significant changes in the last few years to meet the needs of the business, such as achieving higher levels of availability, meeting compliance requirements and reducing per-unit service delivery costs. At the same time, IT operations is implementing and managing new technologies such as virtualization and composite applications, as well as investing in ITIL and process improvements, in order to become more business- and service-centric. So what does the future hold for IT operations management? Is it more of the same or are there new perspectives? This presentation looks at what you can expect from the future of IT operations management, in terms of people, process, technology and business management. |
Monday
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | |
| Designing and staffing a data center command center continues to be a challenge for IT organizations looking to align IT operations capabilities, goals and deliverables with the demands and needs of the business. To achieve success, IT operations organization, staffing and skills decisions must be aligned with the way IT management tools are chosen, implemented, integrated and used. Understanding how personnel and tools relate allows IT operations to achieve a greater level of cost control, IT control, business accountability and operational efficiency. |
Monday
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | |
| The use of servers and the products themselves are in a state of flux, as users look to create more flexible, more resilient, more energy efficient and simultaneously more cost-effective data centers. This presentation covers the key dynamics forcing this change, the evolving technologies, the reshaping of products and markets, and the resulting effects upon users. Learn what issues you must address and what steps can position you to most benefit from these changes ahead. |
Monday
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | |
| Storage capacity continues to grow at strong, compounded double digits even in these tough economic times. And if budget pressures weren’t enough, the challenges in finding staffing for physically handling and managing the ever increasing capacity can be all but overwhelming. The good news is that there are new and promised storage technologies and techniques that can help. This presentation examines the alternatives and makes specific recommendations to help users drive to lower storage costs. |
Monday
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | |
| The increasing speed of business demands around-the-clock availability for mission-critical applications and IT services. Meanwhile, the proportions of mission-critical applications are growing, due to application integration and componentization, and they are being changed and enhanced more frequently due to rapidly changing business requirements and the use of more agile development methodologies. The result can be increased application and business process downtime if resiliency strategies, architectures and processes are not well developed and executed. If your business is demanding higher levels of availability—or 100% availability, you will not want to miss this presentation. |
Monday
01:30 PM to 02:30 PM | |
| In response to your requests for more opportunities to interact with your peers, we are offering a networking lounge with a series of topics assigned to 90 minute time blocks through the conference to augment your opportunity to interact in a casual manner with those who have similar interests. We’ve chosen a series of topics that augment the roundtables or address topics not scheduled for the roundtables that we believe are top-of-mind for attendees. (Analysts have not been assigned to moderate/direct these sessions but may stop in as their schedule permits.) |
Monday
02:45 PM to 03:45 PM | |
Monday
02:45 PM to 03:45 PM | |
| Brocade CMO John McHugh will discuss the changing dynamics in modern data center networks and the role virtualization and cloud computing will play in the evolution process. Todd Benjamin, vice president of enterprise hosting for Hostway, a global provider of infrastructure, platforms and Web enabled business applications, will provide real-world examples of the importance of virtualization and cloud computing to support advanced data centers and demanding enterprise applications. |
Monday
02:45 PM to 03:45 PM | |
| Tessera, a publically traded $1B semiconductor company, went from a completely physical environment through the virtualization adoption lifecycle. They are now equipped to manage the dynamic nature of a fluid IT infrastructure. Learn about the stages and tipping points, on Tessera’s path from assessment to design to implementation to optimization which resulted in a highly efficient environment that meets today’s business needs and is ready for automation and cloud. |
Monday
02:45 PM to 03:45 PM | |
| Enterprise customers seek simple and cost-effective ways to manage their infrastructure efficiently in midst of strong competition and rapidly changing technologies. Greg shares the advantages that Platform Equinix has brought to hundreds of customers by leveraging reductions in total cost of ownership while greatly improving operational and application efficiencies. This presentation explores in detail how enterprises can take advantage of the rich selection of networks and other critical value-added services that a dense ecosystems can provide. |
Monday
02:45 PM to 03:45 PM | |
| The traditional data center model just can't keep up with today's spiraling costs, explosive growth and IT complexity. Learn how smarter infrastructure strategies can help you gain insight, manage growth, leverage new technologies including cloud computing and business analytics and deliver better economics. |
Monday
02:45 PM to 03:45 PM | |
| IT is under siege—trying to manage growth, get the most out of resources, meet business needs, and plan for the future, all while keeping within budget. Hear Patrick Rogers, Vice President, NetApp and Grant Leathers, Director of Enterprise Infrastructure, Kelley Blue Book, discuss how you can get the most out of your IT environment—while maintaining your sanity (and budgets). |
Monday
02:45 PM to 03:45 PM | |
| This presentation will utilize a focused case study approach to highlight best practices in network planning and design to enable data center consolidation and virtualization. Key topics addressed will include capacity planning, availability, space planning, environmental concerns and the fallacy of management by PUE (Power Utilization Effectiveness). The role of technology as applied to green data centers supported by facilities and IT organizations will be discussed to achieve greater efficiencies within today’s Intelligent Buildings. |
Monday
02:45 PM to 03:45 PM | |
| The shift from physical to virtual continues to alter the IT landscape, and it’s no longer simply about server consolidation. As IT organizations undertake new and innovative ways to deliver elastic, dynamic, and highly available applications it requires an information-centric approach…ultimately the device and system will become irrelevant. Attend this session to understand Symantec’s data protection, archiving, storage management, and high availability strategy for virtualization, private, and public cloud. |
Monday
04:00 PM to 05:00 PM | |
Monday
04:00 PM to 05:00 PM | |
| In response to your requests for more opportunities to interact with your peers, we are offering a networking lounge with a series of topics assigned to 90 minute time blocks through the conference to augment your opportunity to interact in a casual manner with those who have similar interests. We’ve chosen a series of topics that augment the roundtables or address topics not scheduled for the roundtables that we believe are top-of-mind for attendees. (Analysts have not been assigned to moderate/direct these sessions but may stop in as their schedule permits.) |
Monday
04:00 PM to 05:00 PM | |
| Virtualization, smart buildings, unified computing systems and cloud computing are placing a greater burden on today’s networks. These increased demands necessitate a comprehensive approach to data center design in order to maximize network performance. In this session, you will learn how utilizing best practices in pathway and physical support design can lower the overall temperature in the data center, reduce the risk of equipment failure, and provide significant savings in cooling costs. |
Monday
04:00 PM to 05:00 PM | |
| As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations need a plan for moving from the current state toward cloud models based on shared services, self-service and metered use. This session explores how enterprises can get started on the evolution toward cloud computing, building on a foundation of virtualization, engineered systems and management automation. |
Monday
04:00 PM to 05:00 PM | |
| In the first half of our session we will explore opportunities to energy savings in datacenters chilled water systems using close-coupled, closed-loop, water-cooled IT equipment cabinets. Energy usage of chiller plants will be examined, identifying potential energy savings by varying chilled water supply temperatures. Then look at "free cooling" opportunities to further expand energy savings.
In the second half of our session featuring National Geographic Society a leader and innovator in energy savings and sustainability. Careful consideration was given to incorporating Precision cooling benefit technologies into their new data center as well as energy management and lights out operation. |
Monday
04:00 PM to 05:00 PM | |
| i/o will moderate a town-hall style panel discussion on how enterprises are increasingly seeing the data center as a service. The panel will consist of three of the largest enterprise consumers of data center services and will focus on how and why these organizations chose to outsource the data center instead of designing, building and operating their own. The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions and learn from their peers in what promises to be one of the most popular sessions at the conference. |
Monday
04:00 PM to 05:00 PM | |
| Learn how Jay Lewis faced the challenges of being the Customer Project Manager for a multi-million dollar data center upgrade. From initial planning, through implementation, understand the real life trade offs he and his team made in designing and deploying their high efficiency data center. Additionally, discover how they navigated the challenges of availability, density, security and management while optimizing efficiency and reducing capital expenses. |
Monday
04:00 PM to 05:00 PM | |
| Join Cisco and a panel of customers to learn how to transform your data center from a cost center to a competitive differentiator. Hear from your peers how they were able to reduce the risk of change and leverage innovation to drive real capital and operating cost savings, reducing total cost of ownership while simultaneously delivering greater business value to their organization. |
Monday
05:15 PM to 06:15 PM | |
| By YE2012, a tipping point will be reached: more than half of the workloads in our data centers will have been virtualized, providing the foundation for private cloud computing capabilities. This transformation will profoundly transform the future of information security. Once we've decoupled security policy from workloads, security can become adaptive to simultaneously span private and public cloud computing scenarios. This session will lay out a vision and road map for this transformation. |
Monday
05:15 PM to 06:15 PM | |
| As organizations struggle with browser-based application performance they often miss opportunities to leverage capabilities in products they already own. Often application delivery controllers are only doing load balancing and SoftWOCs aren't even considered The round table session will explore what organizations are actually doing and where they see opportunities to use these technologies and others to improve application performance.
NOTE: If you register for a Roundtable, please come prepared to share with the group a best practice, anecdote, idea or bit of advice as it relates to the topic. Roundtables are not presentations, but rather moderated discussions aimed at attendees sharing best practices and ideas. Analyst/User Roundtables are restricted to end user attendees only, and limited to approximately 12 participants. Pre-registration is required, but no additional fees apply. |
Monday
05:15 PM to 06:15 PM | |
| Consolidating I&O remains a major focus for Data Center Managers to reduce cost, increase service levels and improve manageability. And all aspects of infrastructure are fair game here – such as data centers, severs, storage, networks and even client devices. Furthermore, consolidation is a prerequisite for virtualization. Come join your peers in discussing their actual experiences and plans when it comes to consolidation.
NOTE: If you register for a Roundtable, please come prepared to share with the group a best practice, anecdote, idea or bit of advice as it relates to the topic. Roundtables are not presentations, but rather moderated discussions aimed at attendees sharing best practices and ideas. Analyst/User Roundtables are restricted to end user attendees only, and limited to approximately 12 participants. Pre-registration is required, but no additional fees apply. |
Monday
05:15 PM to 06:15 PM | |
| In this analyst/user roundtable, we will discuss your experiences with sustaining highly available services on virtualized infrastructures. Our topics will include your experience with using private cloud infrastructure to support mission-critical workloads, using virtual environments for various aspects of disaster recovery including testing and actual recovery, and maintaining continuously available service by migrating workloads from one virtual environment to another. Come to share and learn what works and what to avoid.
NOTE: If you register for a Roundtable, please come prepared to share with the group a best practice, anecdote, idea or bit of advice as it relates to the topic. Roundtables are not presentations, but rather moderated discussions aimed at attendees sharing best practices and ideas. Analyst/User Roundtables are restricted to end user attendees only, and limited to approximately 12 participants. Pre-registration is required, but no additional fees apply. |
Monday
05:15 PM to 06:15 PM | |
| The evolution of virtualization and ubiquitous IP networks has created an ideal environment to migrate communications to hosted and cloud based models, yet adoption has been meager. Blame can spread around to weak market offerings, poor performance, lack of standards and over-hyped solutions, but the maturity gap is beginning to close. Providers like Microsoft, Google and Amazon start to shape the enterprises and your architecture, and you have two options: ignore it or move hosted/cloud projects from whiteboard to beta status. This session will look at how you choose applications/workloads, providers and support level you need to need get moving. |
Monday
05:15 PM to 06:15 PM | |
| Defining and managing a portfolio of IT services and presenting an actionable IT service catalog to business users is no longer an option but rather a requirement for IT organizations. Best-in-class IT organizations are realigning staff resources and bringing in new tools to manage IT services throughout the service life cycle, offering capabilities for service requests, service fulfillment, service-level reporting and service cost transparency. |
Monday
05:15 PM to 06:15 PM | |
| Few have achieved the promise of data center automation, or automating processes across server, storage and network. We explore the future of data center automation, including best practices in server provisioning and configuration management, as well as the areas of compliance, private cloud and real-time infrastructure. |
Monday
05:15 PM to 06:15 PM | |
| The combination of fabric-based architectures, resource pools and virtualization is diminishing the concept of monolithic, physical and discrete hardware/software systems. The traditional, tightly coupled hardware/operating system/hosted applications on a physically bounded system will evaporate in the transformed data center of tomorrow. We will assess the emerging new model of computing from the perspective of the system, procurement, life cycle and vendor competitive dynamics. |
