Gartner
Data center, Infrastructure
& Operations Management
summit 2014
24 – 25 November | London, UK |
gartner.com/eu/datacenter
Leading I&O: Delivering New Levels of
Innovation and Productivity
TOPICS BEING ADDRESSED:
• Deliver I&O projects that enable business growth
• Improve quality and demonstrate value of IT services
• Align costs relative to business value
• Build business skills in the IT organization
• Changing the culture of the data center and IT operations
• Develop cloud and virtualization strategic roadmaps
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datacenter
As the current of I&O change grows stronger, IT leaders must act quickly to
take charge and lead data center transformation — or risk being left behind.
Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit
2014 will help I&O decision-makers successfully balance the need to reliably
deliver IT services and simultaneously drive innovation. With a renewed focus
on people, processes, technology and culture, attendees will learn how to
select and prioritize I&O initiatives, manage ongoing volatility, and elevate their
own strategic leadership in the digital enterprise of the future.
Benefits of attending/key learnings
• How should IT operations transform their people and processes to improve
business agility and effectiveness?
• How should I&O leaders evaluate emerging technologies and assess whether
they will benefit the organization?
• How will cloud computing, big data and mobility influence I&O business
models and investment priorities?
• How does an I&O leader build an I&O vision, strategy and governance
framework?
• How are emerging philosophies such as DevOps changing the IT operations
management environment?
• How should I&O leaders manage their technology infrastructures and sourcing
portfolios to deliver IT services effectively?
• Which vendors will play leading roles in the evolution of IT infrastructure?
• Your enterprise is going digital. How can you be the indispensible partner?
Leading I&O: Delivering
New Levels of Innovation
and Productivity
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What’s New
• Mobility — managing demands for
anywhere-anytime mobile across
the enterprise
• Evolution of networking in a
software defined world
• Implementing an effective
operations strategy based on the
emerging DevOps philosophy
• Institutionalize a global BCM
program to manage all risks to
business operations
• Big data strategy — what it is and
how it can benefit the organization
• Cost optimization — how to show
the ROI of data center optimization
• Digital business — how to
implement I&O and cloud
automation to deliver bi-modal
capabilities
• Culture and people — making
people and process investments for
service improvement
Media Partners
Case study speakers
To see what job titles this Summit
is aimed at please visit
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Who Should Attend
Hear real hands-on “this is how we made
it happen” insight, from international
organizations whose senior executives
are working on the best and most
successful I&O initiatives in Europe. The
latest case study information will be
added to the agenda as it is confirmed at
gartner.com/eu/datacenter
How Much? A study into accounting for
Carbon and power in the Data Center
Stephen Bowes-Phipps,
Data Centers Manager,
University of Hertfordshire
IT Service Frameworks: Driving Business and
IT Performance
Andy McCleod,
Head of IT Service Delivery,
Managing Director, YBS Group
Danny Potts,
Transition Services,
YBS Group
In the Pursuit of Speed: The Journey of a
Process Heavy Bank to Become Fast and
Resilient
Henk Kolk,
Chief Architect,
ING Nederland
How to Restore Mission Critical Applications
Without Undergoing an Economical Crash
Giovanni Michelini,
Infrastructures,Service Management
and ICT Security Manager, Saipem Sp
Meet the Gartner Analysts
24 leading Infrastructure & Operations analysts will be presenting at the Summit and
are available to discuss your current challenges. With vast coverage of the latest I&O
research the analysts will cover key focus areas such as:
• Storage
• Data Center Modernization &
Consolidation
• IT Cost Optimization
• Process Improvement
• Cloud Computing
• IT Strategic Planning
• Mobile Enterprise Strategy
• Virtualization
• Sustainability
• IT Asset Management
• Vendor Management
• Infrastructure and Operations Leaders
• IT Governance
• Business Continuity Management
• IT Budgeting
• Contract Negotiation
View each Gartner analysts’ focus areas at
gartner.com/eu/datacenter
GartNer PreDIcts:
“ By 2018, infrastructure and operations (I&O) organizations that fail to reduce
complexity of their systems of innovation will see their time to production double.”
Agenda at a Glance
07:30 – 17:00 Registration
08:00 – 08:45 Software Defined Anything SDx Scenario … Beyond Virtualization Philip Dawson
I&O and Cloud Automation: The Foundation For Digital Business Milind Govekar
Success (and Failure) Scenarios for BYO PCs and Tablets Federica Troni
Server Scenario: Evolution of Server Technologies, Providers and Best Practices Carl Claunch
Planning Your SDN Roadmap Neil Rickard
08:00 – 09:00 Roundtable: Enterprise Mobility Management Roundtable Michael Disabato
08:00 – 09:30 Workshop: Big Data Strategy Essentials Donald Feinberg
09:00 – 09:30 Solution Provider Sessions
09:30 – 10:00 Refreshment Break in Solution Showcase
09:45 – 10:45 Roundtable: Best Practices for SAP HANA and Engineered Systems
Donald Feinberg, Philip Dawson 10:00 – 10:45 Top 10 Emerging Trends That Will
Impact Your Data Center Operation David Cappuccio
Hybrid IT: Bringing Clouds Together Milind Govekar and John Rivard
How to Leverage BYOD to Improve Productivity Michael Disabato
What You Should Know Before Spending €100 Million on a New Data Center Rakesh Kumar
Do Technology Improvements and Budget Constraints Drive Storage Back In-house? Stanley Zaffos
10:00 – 11:30 Workshop: We Received a Software Audit Letter. What do we do now? Victoria Barber and Nathan Hill 11:00 – 11:30 Solution Provider Sessions
11:45 – 12:15 Case Study: In the Pursuit of Speed: The Journey of a Process Heavy Bank to Become Fast and Resilient Henk Kolk, Chief Architect, ING Nederland
Case Study: How to Restore Mission Critical Applications without Undergoing an Economical Crash Giovanni Michelini, Infrastructures, Service Management and ICT Security Manager, Saipem Spa
Case Study Case Study
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch in the Solution Showcase 13:30 – 14:00 To the Point: IT OPS Hype Cycle
Ian Head
To the Point: The Impact of Hybrid Cloud on IT Disaster Recovery Management Kevin Knox
To the Point: Desktop as a Service — the Future of Workspace Delivery? Nathan Hill
To the Point: Big Data and Hadoop Descend on the Data Center Donald Feinberg
To the Point: Manage Storage Growth Through Effective Data Policies Valdis Filks
13:45 – 14:45 Roundtable: Secure Mobility and BYOD in the Enterprise: Keeping Data Safe and Workforce Happy Dionisio Zumerle
13:45 – 15:15 Workshop: Explore and Understand Which APM (Application Performance Monitoring) Solutions are Right for You Vivek Bhalla and Milind Govekar 14:15 – 14:45 To the Point: Achieveing a DevOps
Culture John Rivard and Cameron Haight
To the Point: Magic Quadrant for Cloud Enabled Managed Hosting, Europe 2014 Tiny Haynes
To the Point: Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools Kevin Knox
To the Point: Introducing the Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems Andrew Butler
To the Point: The WAN is the New LAN Neil Rickard
14:45 – 15:30 Refreshment Break in Solution Showcase
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07:30 – 20:00 Registration, Information and Refreshments
08:00 – 08:45 Tutorial: Getting to Know Gartner Federica Troni, Nathan Hill, Andrew Butler, Rakesh Kumar, Philip Dawson, Ian Head and Cameron Haight 09:00 – 09:15 Summit Opening and Welcome Presentation Andrew Butler and Nathan Hill
09:15 – 10:00 Gartner Keynote: Non-Stop IT: Delivering the Integrated Data Center David Cappuccio and Rakesh Kumar 10:00 – 10:30 Premier Panel Session Moderator: Milind Govekar
10:30 – 11:00 Refreshment Break in Solution Showcase
11:00 – 12:00 Guest Keynote: “Trains, Planes and … Toilet Cleaners!” — Creating a Success Culture in an IT Environment Hamish Taylor, Expert on Leadership, Innovation and Branding 12:00 – 13:15 Lunch in the Solution Showcase
TRACK A
IT Operations — Excelling in a
Brave New World
TRACK B
Developing and Implementing Your
Short/Long-term Cloud Strategy
TRACK C
The Mobility Factor — Driving
Every Aspect of Computing
TRACK D
Ensuring Your Data Center
Infrastructure Reflects Todays
Realities and Tomorrow’s Challenges
TRACK E
The Revolutionary Impact of
Innovative Technology
and New Business Processes
ROuNDTABlES
Analyst-User Roundtables
WORKSHOPS
Interactive Sessions
13:15 – 14:00 The IT Operations Scenario: Preparing for the Bi-Modal Future Ian Head
Building Successful Private and Hybrid Cloud Services Philip Dawson
The Future of Endpoint Management Federica Troni
The 5 Year Storage Scenario Stanley Zaffos and Valdis Filks
Take Control of Your Innovation Via Web-scale IT Cameron Haight
13:00 – 14:00 Roundtable: Network Disruption in the Data Center Neil Rickard
14:15 – 15:00 Data Center Consolidation and Migration Strategies — Getting from Here to There David Cappuccio
Where Does the Cloud Fit in With Your Data Center Migration Strategy Tiny Haynes
Best Practices to Create a Successful Mobile Strategy Michael Disabato
Unix: Shrinking Legacy Niche or Reincarnated Spirit/Cloud? Andrew Butler
What's Happening in High Performance Computing Carl Claunch 14:15 – 15:15 Roundtable: Web-scale IT Roundtable Cameron Haight 14:00 – 15:45 Workshop: Leveraging Gartner's I&O Maturity Model to Drive Improvements John Rivard and Sanil Solanki 15:15 – 15:45 Solution Provider Sessions
15:45 – 16:15 Refreshment Break in Solution Showcase
16:00 – 17:00 Roundtable: Early Experiences with Next Generation Storage Solutions Stanley Zaffos and Valdis Filks 16:15 – 16:45 Case Study: IT Service Frameworks:
Driving Business and IT Performance Andy McCleod, Head of IT Service Delivery, Managing Director and Danny Potts, Transition Services, YBS Group
Case Study: How Much? A Study into Accounting for Carbon and Power in the Data Center Stephen Bowes-Phipps, Data Centers Manager University of Hertfordshire
Case Study Case Study
17:00 – 17:30 To the Point: Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics Vivek Bhalla
To the Point: Where Software Defined Anything (SDx) Meets Cloud Computing Philip Dawson
To the Point: The Dark Side of the Nexus: Enterprise Mobility Security Failures, Trends and Threats Failures, Trends and Threats Dionisio Zumerle
To the Point: Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure Errol Rasit
To the Point: 2015 CIO Agenda: Implications to I&O Andrew Butler and Nathan Hill
16:45 – 18:15 Workshop: Sustainable Strategies Connecting DC Performance to Business Value Bettina Tratz-Ryan and Rakesh Kumar
17:45 – 18:15 To the Point: Significantly Reducing I&O Costs: The Next Round Sanil Solanki
To the Point: How to Leverage Cloud and Datacenter Services on Your Way to Becoming a Digital Business Tiny Haynes
To the Point: Avoid Licencing Pitfalls When Adopting Virtual Desktops Nathan Hill
To the Point: Software Asset Management: The Foundation for Effective IT Controls Victoria Barber
To the Point: Thinking the Unthinkable: Innovating via In-memory Computing Technologies and Architectures Donald Feinberg and Errol Rasit
18:15 – 20:00 Networking Reception in the Solution Showcase The IT Operations Scenario:
Preparing for the Bi-Modal Future Ian Head
Case Study: IT Service Frameworks: Driving Business and IT
Performance Andy McCleod, Head of IT Service Delivery, Managing Director and Danny Potts, Transition Services, YBS Group
To the Point: Significantly Reducing I&O Costs: The Next Round Sanil Solanki
To the Point: Avoid Licencing Pitfalls When Adopting Virtual Desktops Nathan Hill
How to Leverage BYOD to Improve Productivity Michael Disabato Top 10 Emerging Trends That Will
Impact Your Data Center Operation David Cappuccio
Where Does the Cloud Fit in With Your Data Center Migration Strategy Tiny Haynes
To the Point: Where Software Defined Anything (SDx) Meets Cloud Computing Philip Dawson
I&O and Cloud Automation: The Foundation For Digital Business Milind Govekar
To the Point: Big Data and Hadoop Descend on the Data Center Donald Feinberg
To the Point: Introducing the Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems Andrew Butler
To the Point: Achieveing a DevOps Culture John Rivard and Cameron Haight
To the Point: The Impact of Hybrid Cloud on IT Disaster Recovery Management Kevin Knox
The 5 Year Storage Scenario Stanley Zaffos and Valdis Filks
07:30 – 17:00 Registration
08:00 – 08:45 Software Defined Anything SDx Scenario … Beyond Virtualization Philip Dawson
I&O and Cloud Automation: The Foundation For Digital Business Milind Govekar
Success (and Failure) Scenarios for BYO PCs and Tablets Federica Troni
Server Scenario: Evolution of Server Technologies, Providers and Best Practices Carl Claunch
Planning Your SDN Roadmap Neil Rickard
08:00 – 09:00 Roundtable: Enterprise Mobility Management Roundtable Michael Disabato
08:00 – 09:30 Workshop: Big Data Strategy Essentials Donald Feinberg
09:00 – 09:30 Solution Provider Sessions
09:30 – 10:00 Refreshment Break in Solution Showcase
09:45 – 10:45 Roundtable: Best Practices for SAP HANA and Engineered Systems
Donald Feinberg, Philip Dawson 10:00 – 10:45 Top 10 Emerging Trends That Will
Impact Your Data Center Operation David Cappuccio
Hybrid IT: Bringing Clouds Together Milind Govekar and John Rivard
How to Leverage BYOD to Improve Productivity Michael Disabato
What You Should Know Before Spending €100 Million on a New Data Center Rakesh Kumar
Do Technology Improvements and Budget Constraints Drive Storage Back In-house? Stanley Zaffos
10:00 – 11:30 Workshop: We Received a Software Audit Letter. What do we do now? Victoria Barber and Nathan Hill 11:00 – 11:30 Solution Provider Sessions
11:45 – 12:15 Case Study: In the Pursuit of Speed: The Journey of a Process Heavy Bank to Become Fast and Resilient Henk Kolk, Chief Architect, ING Nederland
Case Study: How to Restore Mission Critical Applications without Undergoing an Economical Crash Giovanni Michelini, Infrastructures, Service Management and ICT Security Manager, Saipem Spa
Case Study Case Study
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch in the Solution Showcase 13:30 – 14:00 To the Point: IT OPS Hype Cycle
Ian Head
To the Point: The Impact of Hybrid Cloud on IT Disaster Recovery Management Kevin Knox
To the Point: Desktop as a Service — the Future of Workspace Delivery? Nathan Hill
To the Point: Big Data and Hadoop Descend on the Data Center Donald Feinberg
To the Point: Manage Storage Growth Through Effective Data Policies Valdis Filks
13:45 – 14:45 Roundtable: Secure Mobility and BYOD in the Enterprise: Keeping Data Safe and Workforce Happy Dionisio Zumerle
13:45 – 15:15 Workshop: Explore and Understand Which APM (Application Performance Monitoring) Solutions are Right for You Vivek Bhalla and Milind Govekar 14:15 – 14:45 To the Point: Achieveing a DevOps
Culture John Rivard and Cameron Haight
To the Point: Magic Quadrant for Cloud Enabled Managed Hosting, Europe 2014 Tiny Haynes
To the Point: Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools Kevin Knox
To the Point: Introducing the Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems Andrew Butler
To the Point: The WAN is the New LAN Neil Rickard
14:45 – 15:30 Refreshment Break in Solution Showcase
15:30 – 16:15 Gartner Closing Keynote: Bi-modal IT: Managing the Dichotomy in the Data Center Raymond Paquet
16:15 – 17:00 Closing Guest Keynote: Key Drivers of the Digital Future: What the Next 10 Years Hold Ray Hammond, Futurologist
At the Summit, please refer to the agenda handout provided
for the most up to date session and location information
Agenda correct
as of 23 July 2014
Guest Keynotes
Gartner Keynotes
Key Drivers of the Digital Future: What the
Next 10 Years Hold
Ray Hammond is Europe’s most
experienced and most widely
published futurologist. For over
30 years he has researched,
written and spoken about how future trends
will affect society and business. As faster
technological innovation, globalization and
the environmental challenge continue to be
priorities Ray is one of a few commentators
equipped to explain how these massive
challenges will affect our futures, the way we
do business and the far reaching implications
socially, economically and politically.
Ray Hammond
Futurologist
“Trains, Planes and … Toilet Cleaners!”
— Creating a Success Culture in an IT
Environment
Hamish will use war stories from
his own experiences both as a
CEO/customer of IT and as a
driver of growth and innovation, to
challenge us in four key areas that will help us
to think differently about the role we can play
at the forefront of business success.
1. Challenging the way we “understand” our
customers
2. Changing the platform for IT activities
3. Changing the way we engage with our
team to drive performance
4. Challenging our thinking!
Hamish Taylor
Expert on Leadership, Innovation and Branding
Non-stop IT: Delivering the Integrated
Data Center
David Cappuccio and
Rakesh Kumar
Bi-modal IT: Managing the Dichotomy in
the Data Center
Raymond Paquet
07:30 – 20:00 Registration, Information and Refreshments
08:00 – 08:45 Tutorial: Getting to Know Gartner Federica Troni, Nathan Hill, Andrew Butler, Rakesh Kumar, Philip Dawson, Ian Head and Cameron Haight 09:00 – 09:15 Summit Opening and Welcome Presentation Andrew Butler and Nathan Hill
09:15 – 10:00 Gartner Keynote: Non-Stop IT: Delivering the Integrated Data Center David Cappuccio and Rakesh Kumar 10:00 – 10:30 Premier Panel Session Moderator: Milind Govekar
10:30 – 11:00 Refreshment Break in Solution Showcase
11:00 – 12:00 Guest Keynote: “Trains, Planes and … Toilet Cleaners!” — Creating a Success Culture in an IT Environment Hamish Taylor, Expert on Leadership, Innovation and Branding 12:00 – 13:15 Lunch in the Solution Showcase
TRACK A
IT Operations — Excelling in a
Brave New World
TRACK B
Developing and Implementing Your
Short/Long-term Cloud Strategy
TRACK C
The Mobility Factor — Driving
Every Aspect of Computing
TRACK D
Ensuring Your Data Center
Infrastructure Reflects Todays
Realities and Tomorrow’s Challenges
TRACK E
The Revolutionary Impact of
Innovative Technology
and New Business Processes
ROuNDTABlES
Analyst-User Roundtables
WORKSHOPS
Interactive Sessions
13:15 – 14:00 The IT Operations Scenario: Preparing for the Bi-Modal Future Ian Head
Building Successful Private and Hybrid Cloud Services Philip Dawson
The Future of Endpoint Management Federica Troni
The 5 Year Storage Scenario Stanley Zaffos and Valdis Filks
Take Control of Your Innovation Via Web-scale IT Cameron Haight
13:00 – 14:00 Roundtable: Network Disruption in the Data Center Neil Rickard
14:15 – 15:00 Data Center Consolidation and Migration Strategies — Getting from Here to There David Cappuccio
Where Does the Cloud Fit in With Your Data Center Migration Strategy Tiny Haynes
Best Practices to Create a Successful Mobile Strategy Michael Disabato
Unix: Shrinking Legacy Niche or Reincarnated Spirit/Cloud? Andrew Butler
What's Happening in High Performance Computing Carl Claunch 14:15 – 15:15 Roundtable: Web-scale IT Roundtable Cameron Haight 14:00 – 15:45 Workshop: Leveraging Gartner's I&O Maturity Model to Drive Improvements John Rivard and Sanil Solanki 15:15 – 15:45 Solution Provider Sessions
15:45 – 16:15 Refreshment Break in Solution Showcase
16:00 – 17:00 Roundtable: Early Experiences with Next Generation Storage Solutions Stanley Zaffos and Valdis Filks 16:15 – 16:45 Case Study: IT Service Frameworks:
Driving Business and IT Performance Andy McCleod, Head of IT Service Delivery, Managing Director and Danny Potts, Transition Services, YBS Group
Case Study: How Much? A Study into Accounting for Carbon and Power in the Data Center Stephen Bowes-Phipps, Data Centers Manager University of Hertfordshire
Case Study Case Study
17:00 – 17:30 To the Point: Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics Vivek Bhalla
To the Point: Where Software Defined Anything (SDx) Meets Cloud Computing Philip Dawson
To the Point: The Dark Side of the Nexus: Enterprise Mobility Security Failures, Trends and Threats Failures, Trends and Threats Dionisio Zumerle
To the Point: Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure Errol Rasit
To the Point: 2015 CIO Agenda: Implications to I&O Andrew Butler and Nathan Hill
16:45 – 18:15 Workshop: Sustainable Strategies Connecting DC Performance to Business Value Bettina Tratz-Ryan and Rakesh Kumar
17:45 – 18:15 To the Point: Significantly Reducing I&O Costs: The Next Round Sanil Solanki
To the Point: How to Leverage Cloud and Datacenter Services on Your Way to Becoming a Digital Business Tiny Haynes
To the Point: Avoid Licencing Pitfalls When Adopting Virtual Desktops Nathan Hill
To the Point: Software Asset Management: The Foundation for Effective IT Controls Victoria Barber
To the Point: Thinking the Unthinkable: Innovating via In-memory Computing Technologies and Architectures Donald Feinberg and Errol Rasit
18:15 – 20:00 Networking Reception in the Solution Showcase
10:00 – 11:30 Workshop: We Received a Software Audit Letter. What do we do now? Victoria Barber and Nathan Hill 14:00 – 15:45 Workshop: Leveraging Gartner’s I&O Maturity Model to Drive Improvements John Rivard and Sanil Solanki
To the Point: 2015 CIO Agenda: Implications to I&O Andrew Butler and Nathan Hill
08:00 – 09:00 Roundtable: Enterprise Mobility Management Roundtable Michael Disabato
Solution Showcase
Develop a “shortlist” of technology and services providers who can meet your particular needs.
We offer you exclusive access to some of the world’s leading technology and service solution providers.
CiRBA’s Automated Capacity Control software intelligently balances infrastructure supply and demand in virtual and cloud infrastructure in order to eliminate capacity risk and drive enterprise efficiency www.cirba.com
Cisco Unified Data Center and Application-Centric infrastructure solutions offer the broadest data center switching, compute, management, security, storage and integrated services solution. Cisco solutions for business applications, big data, desktop virtualization, and data center mobility help ensure data is transported securely, efficiently, and flexibly across a set of optimized data center resources. www.cisco.com
Automic is the world’s largest, independently deployed automation platform powering business, application and infrastructure processes, while integrating next generation models — Cloud, DevOps and Big Data. www.automic.com
Business Value Dashboards, MoM, BSM and CMS integrated with your existing IT environment. Many of the largest organisations choose Interlink to manage their critical services. www.interlinksoftware.com At SanDisk, we’re expanding the possibilities of data storage. Our solid-state drives and flash optimizing software maximize application performance and efficiency for enterprise IT, systems manufacturers, and hyperscale data centers. www.sandisk.com/enterprise/
Curvature specializes in delivering 24x7 technical support, advanced hardware replacement, and lifecycle management of networking and data center equipment from corporate locations across the globe. www.curvature.com A leading global provider of innovative performance management solutions, Network Instruments helps organisations ensure the on-time delivery of applications and execution of critical business services. www.networkinstruments.com
Plan, run and optimize your IT using Sumerian predictive capacity management. Helping you deploy the right resources, at the right time and right cost. www.sumerian.com
CTERA provides the world’s leading and most secure cloud storage services platform used by service providers and enterprises to sync, serve and protect data. www.ctera.com
Methode — the Data Solutions Group — supports the telecommunications, data communications and data center industries with innovative, versatile DCIM and physical layer infrastructure solutions. www.methode.com/data
Sovereign Data Connect is a customer-centric data center provider with its Data Center in North London and teams of technical staff on site.
www.sovereignDC.com
HGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), provides advanced SSD, HDD, software and solutions for Enterprise, Cloud Computing and Hyperscale Data Center environments. www.hgst.com
Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage company, enables broad deployment of flash in the data center for less than the cost of performance disk.
www.purestorage.com
TeamQuest is the global leader in IT Service Optimization, specializing in IT Capacity Management. We help IT organizations consistently meet service levels while minimizing costs. www.teamquest.com Extreme Networks, Inc. is setting a new standard for
superior customer experience by delivering network-powered innovation and market leading service and support. The company delivers high-performance switching and routing products for data center and core-to-edge networks, wired/wireless LAN access, and unified network management and control. www.extremenetworks.com/
If you are planning or rethinking your current IT strategy and considering how your business can leverage colocation, managed hosting or exploit the power of the cloud to provide commercial and technical advantage, speak to TelecityGroup, we’d welcome the opportunity to share our experience and help you execute your plans. www.telecity.com
VMware, the industry-leading virtualization and cloud infrastructure software company, enables organizations to innovate by streamlining IT infrastructure and operations, freeing IT resources for investment in strategic innovation. A pioneer in the use of virtualization and policy-driven automation technologies, VMware simplifies IT complexity across the entire data center and out to user workspaces, empowering IT to move at the speed of business. www.vmware.com Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in security
software, strives to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Our innovative security solutions for consumers, businesses and governments protect information on mobile devices, endpoints, gateways, servers and the cloud. www.trendmicro.com
Virtual Instruments delivers the industry’s only real-time Infrastructure Performance Management solution. The VirtualWisdom® platform provides unparalleled visibility
into the performance, health and utilization of the entire open systems infrastructure — empowering customers to guarantee the performance and availability of their mission critical applications across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.
www.virtualinstruments.com
Panduit is a world-class developer and provider of leading-edge solutions that help customers optimize the physical infrastructure through simplification, agility, and operational efficiency. Panduit’s Unified Physical InfrastructureSM (UPI) based solutions give enterprises the capabilities to connect, manage, and automate communications, computing, power, control, and security systems for a smarter, unified business foundation. www.panduit.com
Splunk Inc. provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Splunk® software searches, monitors,
analyzes and visualizes machine-generated big data from websites, applications, servers, networks, sensors and mobile devices. More than 7,400 organizations use Splunk software to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, improve service performance and reduce costs. www.splunk.com
A better way to address current and future data management needs guides CommVault in the development of its Simpana® software suite of products.
CommVault’s exclusive single-platform architecture gives companies unprecedented control over data growth, costs and risk. Designed seamlessly from the ground up it shares a single code and common function set. www.commvault.com
EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform operations and deliver information technology as-a-service. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their information in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.
www.emc.com Unisys is a global information technology company that solves complex IT challenges at the
intersection of modern and mission critical. We work with many of the world’s largest companies and government organizations to secure and keep their mission-critical operations running at peak performance. Our offerings include outsourcing and managed services, systems integration and consulting services, high-end server technology, cybersecurity and cloud management software, and maintenance and support services. www.unisys.com
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