Gartner IT Infrastructure,

Operations & Cloud

Strategies Conference
December 9 – 12, 2019 | Las Vegas, NV
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Enabling the Future

of IT Infrastructure —
Everywhere

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 Roger Williams
Senior Director Analyst

The future of
IT infrastructure
is everywhere
Get ready to move forward Who should attend?
IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) is at the center of persistent disruptive change. Infrastructure and operations Data center and IT “This is the only
executives infrastructure
As IT infrastructure becomes increasingly digital and distributed, complexities and conference that
• Heads of infrastructure • Directors of IT infrastructure
challenges multiply.
and operations provides me with
• Directors of data center
Automation, new cloud capabilities, DevOps, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet • Infrastructure and operations in-depth market
• Network managers
of Things (IoT), the press for expanded skills and talents in a hybrid IT world — they’re strategy and planning executives
• IT infrastructure architects
insights in what
all part of the bigger picture. But so are existing IT frameworks and the push to enterprises are
optimize costs and drive efficiencies. Your task: to make it all work. • Infrastructure platform engineers
• Infrastructure solutions engineers
thinking about,
Join us at Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2019, challenged with
December 9 – 12, in Las Vegas, NV. Determine the trends and technologies you need
and innovating on.”
to embrace to create a viable pathway to the future and identify the ones you must IT operations IT leaders
leverage now for immediate benefit. • IT operations • Enterprise architects Michael Jones, Senior Director,
Product Management, INAP
• IT service management • IT strategists and planners
Cloud management and security Hyperconverged infrastructures • IT service delivery • CTOs
Gain best practices in selecting Get a technical market guide on • IT service desk managers • Infrastructure and operations Table of contents
cloud management platforms. hyperconvergence today and tomorrow. project managers
• Application support
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• Cloud services managers
• DevOps management
Innovation and emerging trends DevOps and DevSecOps 06 Keynote sessions
• Cloud engineers
Navigate the latest and future choices Understand how DevOps provides • DevOps engineers
08 Meet the Gartner experts
to modernize. business value through continuous
10 Agenda tracks
product delivery.
16 Exhibit Showcase
Leadership and talent development Automation 19 Registration and pricing
Lead an I&O skill and culture Learn why automation is imperative
transformation to enable an agile to the agility and innovation of I&O.
digital business future.

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 Plan your
experience
No other conference has the depth and breadth of Gartner IT Infrastructure,
Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference — a total immersion in today’s
most important infrastructure and operations trends, topics and technologies,
featuring more than 150 Gartner-led sessions and so much more.
Direct access to unbiased
Gartner expertise
Proprietary Gartner research
In today’s constantly evolving
infrastructure and operations
landscape, having the right
information at the right time is crucial
to decision-making success. Our
rigorous research methodologies
and objective point of view cut
through complexity to deliver
a deeper, more comprehensive
understanding of technology
and business impacts.
Gartner Magic Quadrants
Who are the competing players in the
major technology markets? How are
they positioned to help you over the
long haul? Through unique visuals and
a uniform set of evaluation criteria, we
present nine Gartner Magic Quadrants
to help you understand how well
technology providers are executing
against their stated vision.
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Exclusive content
targeted to your role
Gartner Essentials sessions
These sessions provide core
Gartner content that is critical for
all infrastructure and operations
professionals.
Gartner-expert-led track sessions
The 2019 conference agenda is full of
track sessions that give you actionable
guidance based on the latest Gartner
primary research, to help you drive
successful results.
Technical Insights sessions
These in-depth presentations by
Gartner for Technical Professionals
experts deliver tactically focused
research and decision-support tools
help you better assess technologies
and services.
Spotlight tracks
These are sessions from across the
entire agenda that focus on three
major areas: infrastructure and
operations for the midsize enterprise,
diversity in IT, cost optimization,
DevOps and leadership (the Senior
Leadership Circle sessions).
Expert interaction
Meet one-on-one with
a Gartner expert*
Up to two private, 30-minute
consultations with a Gartner
expert provide targeted,
personalized advice to help
you plan proactively and
invest wisely. (Preregistration
is required.)
Roundtables*
These topic-driven end-user
forums are moderated by
Gartner experts. Learn what
your peers are doing around
particular issues and across
industries. (Preregistration
is required.)
Workshops*
These are small-scale and
interactive sessions held on
Sunday, December 8, at which
you can drill down on specific
topics with a how-to focus.
Get a running start on content
presented throughout the week.
(Preregistration is required.)
*Space is limited and preregistration is required.
More ways to connect with your peers
Peer Meetups to expand
your network
Pick a hot topic and join up
to 10 peers in a relaxed setting
to exchange ideas, build
relationships and address
mutual challenges. Leave with
new perspectives and tips on
similar challenges and interests.
Interactive audience polling
Real-time surveys during
Gartner-led sessions offer
immediate insight into
attendees’ opinions and
points of view.
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Gartner-invited end-user
case studies
Detailed and documented case
studies reveal lessons learned
by your peers during their own
organizations’ implementations.
Networking breakfasts
Informal, topic-focused
sessions propel interaction
with other infrastructure
and operations professionals
on issues of shared interest.
Solutions
Exhibit Showcase
Meet with more than 120 of today’s
leading and emerging infrastructure
and operations solution providers,
all under one roof, and get the latest
information and demonstrations
on new products and services.
Solution provider sessions
Get an inside view of current
marketplace offerings from the clients
who deploy them and the solution
providers that develop them.
Face-to-face solution
provider meetings
Meet with the solution providers
that interest you most and walk
away with a shortlist of partners
and actionable solutions.
Exhibitor directory
This guide helps you find the solution
providers you need to meet, identified
by their core area of expertise.
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Keynotes
Guest keynotes
Peter Diamandis Exponential Tech: Innovation and Disruption on the Road Ahead
Chairman and CEO, The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing. Forty percent
X Prize Foundation; of today’s Fortune 500 companies are predicted to disappear in the next 10 years.
Executive Chairman, Competition is no longer the multinational overseas; instead, it’s the exponential
Singularity University; entrepreneur creating companies such as Uber. Much of this transformation is
and Author a result of rapidly accelerating exponential technologies. In this highly visual and
powerful keynote, Peter Diamandis gives you a true understanding of the immediacy
of these disruptions. Today’s companies cannot remain stagnant. They must evolve, or
they will die. You are either disrupting your own business model or someone else will.
Julia Dhar Tough Conversations at Work: How to Disagree Productively and Find
Author and Business Common Ground
Some days, it feels like the only thing we can agree on is that we can’t agree —
Strategist
on anything. Drawing on her background as a world debate champion, Julia Dhar
offers three techniques to reshape the way we talk to each other so we can start
disagreeing productively and finding common ground — over family dinners,
during work meetings and in our national conversations.
Nicole Pushing the Envelope: Being the Best When It Counts
Malachowski What does it take to be the best? The individuals and teams who achieve at the
Retired U.S. Air Force highest levels have one thing in common: They push the envelope and go to the
Col., First Woman edge of boundaries. In the business world, pushing the envelope means knowing
Thunderbird Pilot, yourself — certainly knowing your limits — all while using every bit of your
Combat Veteran ability to maximize your performance, be your best and be consistent. Nicole
Malachowski inspires audiences with lessons learned from a distinguished 21-year
career, giving them the courage to push the envelope in their own lives.
Dr. Steve Robbins Inclusion: You’re Good at It ... Except When You Are Not
Inclusion Expert Without understanding culture, we will have a difficult time understanding open-
and closed-mindedness. Dr. Steve Robbins quotes a famous sociologist to explain
how culture plays a key role in how humans behave in a world full of differences.
Culture also ties into the pursuit of inclusion and innovation, and it has everything
to do with teamwork and leadership.
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Gartner keynotes
Opening Keynote: I&O 2025 — Re-Energize, Revitalize, Reimagine Julia Palmer
Re-energize the state of I&O today: what needs to happen to change focus. Director
As we move into a hybrid world, what technology, tools and issues must I&O
deal with, from assets to monitoring to management? Revitalize infrastructures: Dennis Smith
modernization — from project to product to process — how must I&O consider VP Analyst
developing/implementing a continuous modernization process for the existing Roger Williams
infrastructure to reduce technical debt, become more agile, and optimize Senior Director Analyst
operations? Reimagine: organization transformation — what are the new
operating models and culture changes required to support ContinuousNext?
The Art of I&O Culture Hacking Katherine Lord
I&O leaders clearly understand the imperative that culture needs to evolve, and in VP Analyst and
some instances, change drastically to support new work modalities and technologies. Conference Co-Chair
It’s easy to say, easy to understand the need, but where on earth do you start with
something that seems so big, so nebulous and often so ingrained in the organization?
How can you take a 35,000-foot problem, and make it prescriptive, more approachable,
and perhaps even (dare we say) fun! Come learn the art of culture hacking, and how
you can apply this skill to I&O.
Katherine Lord
VP Analyst and
Conference Co-Chair
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Meet the Gartner experts
Ed Anderson Raj Bala Diane Berry Michael Hoeck Andrew Lerner Mark Lockwood
Distinguished VP Analyst Senior Director Analyst VP Analyst Senior Director Analyst VP Analyst VP Analyst

Daniel Betts Thomas J. Bittman Ron Blair Katherine Lord Neil MacDonald Mark A. Margevicius
Senior Director Analyst Distinguished VP Analyst Senior Director Analyst VP Analyst and Distinguished VP Analyst VP Analyst
Conference Co-Chair

Daniel Bowers Padraig Byrne David J. Cappuccio Christopher Mixter Sid Nag Julia Palmer
Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst Distinguished VP Analyst VP, Advisory VP Analyst VP Analyst
and Conference Co-Chair

Henrique Cecci Arun Chandrasekaran Mike Cisek Charley Rich JoAnn Rosenberger Chris Saunderson
Senior Director Analyst Distinguished VP Analyst VP Analyst Senior Director Analyst Distinguished VP Analyst Senior Director Analyst

Mark Cleary Ted Corbett Philip Dawson Jim Scheibmeir Chris Silva Michael A. Silver
Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst VP Analyst Senior Director Analyst VP Analyst Distinguished VP Analyst

Federico De Silva Chirag Dekate Paul Delory Joe Skorupa David Mitchell Smith Dennis Smith
Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst Distinguished VP Analyst Distinguished VP Analyst VP Analyst

Michelle Duerst Jonathan Forest Paul Furtado George Spafford Julian Tirsu Douglas Toombs
Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst Principal Analyst VP Analyst

Sanjit Ganguli Bob Gill Kenneth Gonzalez Angelina C. Troy Stephen White Roger Williams
VP Analyst VP Analyst Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst

Tony Harvey Tiny Haynes Jeffrey Hewitt Ross Winser David Wright Tim Zimmerman
Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst VP Analyst Senior Director Analyst Senior Director Analyst VP Analyst

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Agenda tracks
A. Cloud and Infrastructure
Delivery Strategies
The traditional data center and its services have given
way to a hybrid mix of on-premises, edge-based, colocated
and cloud-based services. Modern IT infrastructure can,
and will, be distributed to wherever it is needed to support
specific workload types. This track explores the methods
and options available today for deploying these workloads
and for creating an agile enterprise.
Sessions include:
• An I&O Leader’s Guide to Containers, Kubernetes
and Microservices
• How to Navigate Hybrid Container Software Market
• Unleash Your Network for the Digital World
• Agility, Diversity and the Changing Role of I&O —
Thriving in a World of External Services
• Simplifying Infrastructure by Application, Workload
and Delivery
• One-Page Cloud Strategy for Midsize Enterprises
• Building Cloud-Native Networks
• Cloud, Infrastructure and Security: A Midsize Enterprise
I&O Perspective
• The Art of Taming Data Egress Costs in the Public Cloud
• Is It Time to Put the Enterprise Network Access
Layer on Autopilot?
• 200 Enterprises Detail Their Use Cases for
Edge Computing
• Midsize Enterprise Infrastructure in the Cloud
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B. Build Cloud Infrastructures
As cloud computing enters its second decade, enterprise
IT has embraced the concept of multicloud as an accepted
delivery model for enterprise applications. Yet despite its
value, concerns remain about how best to balance between
cloud computing as the answer and cloud computing
as one of many answers for IT. This track explores how to
develop a successful cloud strategy and strike the right
balance between value and risk.
Sessions include:
• Avoiding the Top Mistakes in Your Organization’s
Cloud Strategy
• Cloud Strategy Cookbook
• Welcome to the Fascinating Future of Multicloud
• The Cloud Computing Scenario: Strategy and
Tactics for Success
• The Many Roles of Platform and Service Providers
in Cloud Management
• Adaptive Governance: Coping With the Challenges
of Cloud Computing
• The Limits of Public Cloud Computing —
Regional Differences
• Container Technology
C. Manage and Automate Hybrid
Environments
Digital business and the move toward hybrid workload
placement models will dramatically impact I&O, demanding
that organizations rethink their IT service delivery strategies.
Automation of repetitive processes will be critical for IT’s
success. This track focuses on the planning, automation,
orchestration and delivery of on-premises and external
solutions and services.
Sessions include:
• Managing IT in a Hybrid and Multicloud World
• The Road to DevOps — How to Build the Continuous
Infrastructure Automation Pipeline
• Optimizing Your IT Monitoring Strategy in an Evolving
Vendor Landscape
• Technical Insights — The Field Guide to
Infrastructure Automation
• Traditional ROI Calculations Don’t Work for the Cloud.
How to Build the New Business Case
• Should I Outsource My Network Given the Rise
of Cloud and IoT?
• What Is Happening to the DevOps Toolchain Market
and Why It Matters to You
• Reasons Why Your AI Project Will Fail (and What to
Do Instead)
• Discovery as a Service — Why Knowing Your DC
Inventory Isn’t Enough for the Cloud
• Microservices and Containers — How Do You Monitor
What Barely Exists?
• Success With Automation Drives I&O Success
• Supercharge Your Data Management Strategy
Through File Analytics
• Technical Insights: Managing IT in a Hybrid and
Multicloud World
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D. Emerging Technologies
Dramatically expanding digital business requirements
continue to highlight the perennial problem within most I&O
organizations — how to support ever-growing infrastructure
and operations requirements on an ongoing basis, while
still understanding new trends and technologies that could
significantly benefit IT and the business. This track explores
the balance between ensuring operational stability and
tapping into emerging trends.
Sessions include:
• Hyperconverged at the Edge
• The Impact of IoT on Infrastructure and Operations
• Just Call Me SASE — The Merger of WAN Edge and
Edge Security
• Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure and Operations
• Quantum Computing — What Do I&O Leaders Need
to Know?
• Why Quantum Computing, Why Now? — Live Quantum
Computing Demonstration
• NetOps 2.0 — Transform With Automation and Analytics
or Become Irrelevant
• The State of Edge Computing 2020: Beyond Vision
• The State of the IoT Network Landscape
• Composable Infrastructure: Separating Hype, Hope
and Reality
• The Impact of Outpost, Microsoft Azure Stack on the
Hybrid Cloud
• Top Infrastructure Technologies and Trends for Storage,
Integrated and Hyperconverged Systems
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E. Evolution of Core Infrastructures
Continuous modernization is required of servers,
storage, networks, facilities and applications. Meanwhile,
new business strategies and the proliferation and analysis
of data are putting new pressures on IT infrastructure. This
track focuses on how to support traditional infrastructures
as you acknowledge the need to simultaneously implement
an agile approach.
Sessions include:
• Technical Insights: Data Center Zero — A Future
Without Data Centers
• The Digital Infrastructure Compute Scenario
• Technical Insights: Top 10 Myths About Modern
Infrastructure (and How to Dispel Them)
• The Modern Endpoint — PCs? Virtual? Unified?
Contextual? Cloud-Based? — Yes!
• The Future of Enterprise Data Centers — What’s Next
• The Future of Infrastructure is Everywhere —
How Can IT Survive?
• Unraveling the WAN Edge Magic Quadrant
• Networking for HCIS — It Just Works, Doesn’t It?
• Workload Placement in Hybrid IT — Making Great
Decisions About What, Where, When and Why
• What’s New in Networking?
• Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and
Object Storage
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F. Edge and Endpoint Strategies
To succeed in the digital era, I&O leaders must be willing
to embark on “creative destruction” — fundamentally
rethinking the technology architecture, processes and
people required for next-generation workloads, including
Internet of Things, endpoint and edge environments.
Enhanced customer experience, near-real-time analytics
and endpoint management are all impacted when proximity
may drive the solution outbound, but when IT still
retains responsibility.
Sessions include:
• Cloud and Edge — Partners in Next-Generation Solutions
• Achieve Physical Security at the Edge
• The Future of Endpoint Operations
• Don’t Look Now, But the Public Cloud Is Moving
On-Premises
• Technical Insights — DaaS Is Dead — Long Live DaaS!
• Exploring the Edge — Twelve Frontiers of Edge Computing
• Best Practices to Support Microsoft Office 365,
Google G Suite and the Digital Workplace
• Strategic Roadmap for Edge Computing
• Cost Optimization — Using TCO to Optimize Digital
Workplace Endpoint and Cloud Office Decisions
• Four Networking Issues Every IoT Solution Must Solve
• Finding and Containing Rogue Devices Requires
a New Network Strategy for “All” Device Connectivity,
Not Just IoT
• Technical Insights: The Leading Edge — Why Does Edge
Matter and What Should I Do?
• Leading Edge Computing — Some Assembly Required
• Technical Insights: Why Do You Still Have Virtual Desktops?
G. Lead the Evolution of I&O
Enterprises are rapidly becoming digital businesses —
connecting people, businesses and things to increase
revenue, efficiency and time to market. However, the call
to do more with what you have is pervasive in I&O. But
continuous cost-cutting is a path to irrelevance. This track
helps I&O leaders optimize existing resources while also
making the right investments to expand and transform
I&O’s value proposition in the long term.
Sessions include:
• Improve Operational Agility With These Top 5 Methods
• Achieving an Optimal Infrastructure and Operations
Organization Structure for the Digital Age
• The Role of I&O With Virtual Machines, Containers
and Serverless
• An Iterative Adoption Approach Is Key to DevOps
Success in Large Organizations
• To Succeed in Digital Business, Transform Your I&O Team
From Project Management to Product Delivery
• Five Ways Your Peers Are Using AI Today
• The Evolution of Endpoint Strategies in Support of Digital
Workplace Initiatives
• Use Gartner’s I&O ContinuousNext Capability Model to
Enable Digital Business Success
• How to Safely Begin Chaos Engineering to
Increase Reliability
• Earning Straight A’s — Using IT Score as a Means to
Transform the Value of I&O
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H. IT Operations Management
I&O leaders must redefine the mission of IT operations to
focus on delivering positive business outcomes. This change
will not be easy, given existing pressures to move faster,
while running and maintaining the existing IT infrastructure.
This track focuses on the infrastructure and operational
processes, technologies and human capabilities that enable
desired business outcomes.
Sessions include:
• Using AI in IT Operations (AIOps)
• Gartner’s Top 10 Tips, Tactics and Tricks for
Negotiation Success
• Top I&O Cost Optimization Ideas: Beyond the Data Center
• What Comes Next — IT Monitoring Insight to Support
Your Business’s High-Velocity Future
• Best Practices for Operationalizing Artificial Intelligence
• How to Select the Right Cloud Management Tools
• Cloud Cost Optimization Through Cost Management
and Governance
• How to Make ITSM More Agile
• How to Succeed With Agile — What Our Gartner Surveys
Tell Us
• ServiceNow: How to Realistically Estimate Your License
Needs and Costs
• Break the CMDB Failure Cycle With Service Asset and
Configuration Management
• Take an Ecosystem Approach to Improve Your
Infrastructure Returns
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I. Protect I&O Assets
The growing demand for 24/7 technology services is
placing new pressure on the IT organization, underscoring
the need for robust cybersecurity, operational resilience
and service continuity management programs. This track
examines key aspects of security, business continuity,
recovery and governance, revealing why businesses that
fail to create an effective cybersecurity and BCM program
risk catastrophic business disruptions.
Sessions include:
• Cloud Security and Data Protection for Midsize
Enterprises Moving to IaaS
• Top 10 Security Projects for 2019
• Resilient Infrastructure Delivery in Hybrid IT Environments
• Secure Your Backup Data Against Ransomware Threats
• Strategies for Securing Workloads and Information
in Public Clouds
• Software Asset Managed Services: Addressing the
Elephant in the Room
• Why “Store Everything” Is Not an Effective Information
Governance Strategy
• Security Patterns and Best Practices for Securing
Cloud-Native Applications
• Managing Software Assets in a Cloudy World
• State of Cloud DR in 2019
• SaaS Cloud Contingency Planning: Imperative or Idiocy
in Today’s Environment?
• Confronting I&O Technical Debt
• Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities for Unified
Endpoint Management
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J. Skills and IT Culture
The challenge of cultivating an IT culture that can adapt
quickly to support the business and new technology
trends is a critical requirement in today’s enterprise.
This track explains why cultural-change leadership matters
now more than ever — exploring the drivers of culture,
how it influences goals and objectives, and how team
and workplace factors affect it.
Sessions include:
• Start Building Your Automation Team Now!
• Attract and Recruit With a Compelling Employment
Value Proposition
• How to Fix the Software Engineering Resource Gap
in I&O
• Technical Insights: Changing Roles for Operations in the
Era of Cloud and DevOps
• Avoid These Container Minefields and Align With Your
Organization’s Plans
• Scaling for Digital Success — Tackling the I&O Skills Gap
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Steps to Scale DevOps
• How Midsize Enterprise CIOs Can Create a Sustainable
Culture of Innovation
• Let’s Get Personal with Employee Experiences:
A Cross-Industry Perspective
• Cross-Industry Lessons for Creating a Personalized
Customer/Employee Experience-Focused Culture
• Scaling Agile and DevOps for Digital Transformation
Senior Leadership Circle Workshops and Clinics
Created for the most senior infrastructure and operations • Workshop: What Will the Cloud Actually Cost Me?
leaders, the Senior Leadership Circle is a unique opportunity • Workshop: Containers and Kubernetes 101 — Mastering
to engage with Gartner experts as well as your infrastructure the Fundamentals
and operations peers, and attend recommended sessions
to optimize your conference experience. An application to • Workshop: Use Gartner’s “T4” Framework to Optimize
participate is required. As part of this program, we suggest Megavendor Negotiations — IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP
attending the sessions in the Leadership and Cultural • Workshop: IT Score for I&O
Transformation track, as well as the following sessions
• Workshop: Cloud Strategy Workshop — Building a Cloud
exclusive to the program:
Strategy to Meet Your Business Goals
• The I&O Scenario — Embracing Chaos as Means in
• Workshop: Women in I&O
Creating Tangible Value for the Business
• Clinic: How to Use Four Powerful Financial Models for
• Building an Enterprise Cloud Strategy
Cost Transparency and Negotiation Leverage
• Artificial Intelligence — What Should I&O Leaders Expect
• Contract Negotiation Clinic: Negotiating With Microsoft
and Do to Succeed?
• Clinic: Eight Steps to Strategize Software and SaaS
• Senior Leadership Circle Lunch: Change Leadership and
Negotiations for Cost Optimization and Risk Mitigations
Management — Navigating the Uncertainty, Unfamiliarity
and Discomfort of Growth
• What Does the I&O Leader Need to Know About
Cloud Security?
• How to Chart Your Path to a Digital Business
• How to Successfully Build a Cloud Center of Excellence
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Exhibit Showcase
Premier
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform,
offering over 165 fully featured services from data
centers globally. Millions of customers — including
the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises,
and leading government agencies — trust AWS to
power their infrastructure, become more agile,
and lower costs.
Cohesity ushers in a new era in data management
that solves a critical challenge facing businesses
today: mass data fragmentation. Cohesity does
this by consolidating data and infrastructure silos
of backups, archives, files and objects, dev/test
and analytics workloads onto one web-scale
platform, that spans from on-premises to edge
to public cloud, and uniquely empowers
organizations to run apps on that platform.
Google Cloud is widely recognized as a global
leader in delivering a secure, open, intelligent,
and transformative enterprise cloud platform.
Our technology is built on Google’s private network
and is the product of nearly 20 years of innovation
in security, network architecture, collaboration,
artificial intelligence, and open source software.
IBM is a cognitive solutions and cloud platform
company headquartered in Armonk, NY. It is the
largest technology and consulting employer in the
world, serving clients in more than 170 countries.
With 25 consecutive years of patent leadership,
IBM Research is the world’s largest corporate
research organization with more than 3,000
researchers in 12 labs located across six continents.
For more information, visit www.ibm.com.
Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and
hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, helping
customers modernize their datacenters to run
applications at any scale, on-premise and in the
cloud. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software
brings one-click application management and
mobility across public, private and distributed
edge clouds so companies can run any application
at any scale with a dramatically lower total cost
of ownership, giving application owners a true
cloud-like experience.
Exhibitor list as of August 21, 2019, and subject to change
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Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology
leader that has been making the Internet work
since 1984. Our people, products, and partners
help society securely connect and seize tomorrow’s
digital opportunity today.
Dell EMC, a part of Dell Inc., enables organizations
to modernize, automate and transform their
data center using industry-leading converged
infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection
technologies. This provides a trusted foundation
for businesses to transform IT, through the creation
of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business
through the creation of cloud-native applications
and big data solutions.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the industry
leading technology company that enables
customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s
most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud
to the data center to workplace applications, our
technology and services help customers around
the world make IT more efficient, more productive
and more secure.
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$50
billion Fortune Global 500 company, with 57,000
employees and operating in 180 markets around
the world. Focused on a bold vision to deliver
smarter technology for all, we are developing
world-changing technologies that create a more
inclusive, trustworthy and sustainable digital society.
Pivot3 provides easy to use and efficient solutions
designed to meet the performance, scale, and
resiliency requirements of modern datacenter,
video surveillance, edge and cloud computing
environments. Built on hyperconverged
infrastructure, Pivot3’s dynamic Intelligence
Engine combines policy-based management,
inference and orchestration capabilities, and data
placement across hybrid cloud environments
so IT can focus on delivering the applications
and services that power their business.
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Contact us at
exhibit@gartner.com.
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Equinix, Inc. connects the world’s leading businesses
to their customers, employees and partners inside
the most interconnected data centers. In 50 markets
across five continents, Equinix is where companies
come together to realize new opportunities and
accelerate their business, IT and cloud strategies. In
a digital economy where enterprise business models
are increasingly interdependent, interconnection
is essential to success. Equinix operates the only
global interconnection platform, sparking new
opportunities that are only possible when companies
come together.
We Are Hitachi Vantara
DataOps is the data practice for the AI era,
connecting data consumers with data creators to
accelerate collaboration and digital innovation with
the right data. We are analytics, industrial expertise,
technology and outcomes rolled into one great
solution partner. Get Your DataOps Advantage
with Hitachi Vantara.
NetApp is the data authority for hybrid cloud. The
company provides a full range of hybrid cloud data
services that simplify management of applications
and data across cloud and on-premise environments
to accelerate digital transformation. Together with
its partners, NetApp empowers global organizations
to unleash the full potential of their data to expand
customer touchpoints, foster greater innovation,
and optimize their operations. #DataDriven
Pure Storage helps innovators build a better world
with data. Pure’s data solutions enable customers
to maximize and deliver powerful data for
competitive advantage through quickly adoptable,
next-generation technologies including artificial
intelligence and machine learning. At the top 1% of
B2B companies, Pure’s customers are the happiest
in the world.
Rubrik delivers a single platform to manage
and protect data in the cloud, at the edge, and
on-premises. Enterprises choose Rubrik’s Cloud
Data Management software to simplify backup and
recovery, accelerate cloud adoption, and enable
automation at scale. As organizations of all sizes
adopt cloud-first policies, they rely on Rubrik’s Polaris
SaaS platform to unify data for security, governance,
and compliance. For more information, visit
www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on Twitter.
VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure
and business mobility, accelerates our customers’
digital transformation journey. VMware enables
enterprises to master a software-defined approach
to business and IT with its Cross-Cloud Architecture™
and digital workspace solutions. Based in Palo Alto,
CA, VMware, a member of the Dell Technologies
family of businesses, has over 500,000 customers
and 75,000 partners worldwide.
Platinum
BigPanda Autonomous Operations platform helps
IT Ops, NOC and DevOps teams detect, investigate,
and resolve IT incidents faster and more easily
than ever before. Powered by Open Box Machine
Learning, BigPanda correlates IT noise into insights,
automates incident management, and unifies
fragmented IT operations.
Curvature’s global IT services and data center
support extend asset lifecycle, freeing up IT Spend.
This strategy helps businesses to implement IT
transformation. Our 24/7 global technical support,
engineering excellence and lifecycle management
has your data center covered under one global
contract in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Flexential optimizes IT transformation through
a tailored mix of scalable, secure, compliant and
reliable solutions — including colocation, connectivity,
cloud and managed solutions — and a focus on
building trusted, individual customer relationships
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Veeam® is the leader in backup solutions that
deliver Cloud Data Management™. As the leader in
Availability across multi-cloud environments, Veeam
Availability Platform™ is the most complete backup
solution for helping customers on the journey to
achieving success in the 5 Stages of Cloud Data
Management. Headquartered in Baar, Switzerland,
Veeam has offices in over 30 countries, 59,000
partners and 343,000 customers. To learn more,
visit https://www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on
Twitter @veeam.
Western Digital® creates environments for data
to thrive. The company is driving the innovation
needed to help customers capture, preserve, access
and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
Everywhere data lives, from advanced data centers
to mobile sensors to personal devices, our industry-
leading solutions deliver the possibilities of data.
Western Digital data-centric solutions are comprised
of the Western Digital, G-Technology™, SanDisk®,
and WD® brands.
BMC delivers software, services, & expertise to
help customers meet escalating digital demands
& maximize IT innovation. From mainframe to
mobile to multi-cloud & beyond, our solutions
empower enterprises of every size & industry to
run & reinvent their businesses with efficiency,
security, & momentum for the future.
Cyxtera combines a worldwide footprint of 57
best-in-class data centers with a portfolio of modern,
cloud- and hybrid-ready security and analytics
offerings — providing more than 3,500 enterprises,
government agencies and service providers
an integrated, secure and resilient infrastructure
platform for critical applications and systems.
Infinidat helps customers drive petabyte-scale
competitive advantage while providing faster-than
all-flash performance, seven nines availability, and
the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership.
Vertiv brings together hardware, software, analytics
and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital
applications run continuously, perform optimally
and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves
the most important challenges facing today’s data
centers, communication networks and commercial
and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power,
cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and
services that extends from the cloud to the edge
of the network.
Commvault is a worldwide leader in providing
backup and recovery for the enterprise. Our
solutions work on-prem and in the cloud, allowing
you to protect, manage, and use your data.
Commvault is available direct & through a trusted
partner ecosystem.
David-Kenneth Group’s singular focus is data
center transformations. Services include strategic
planning, IT discovery, migrations, and disaster
recovery/IT resiliency. Our people, processes, tools,
and technology help organizations fundamentally
transform how they deliver IT services.
At LogicMonitor, we seamlessly monitor
infrastructures, empowering companies to focus
less on problem solving and more on evolution.
We turn on a complete view in minutes, turn the
dial from maintenance to innovation and turn
the corner from sight to vision.
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Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”)
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technologies that help businesses worldwide take
advantage of mobile, enterprise social, and cloud
computing trends to drive growth. Microsoft helps
you to move to the cloud on your terms.
Nlyte Software helps organizations automate
how they manage their workload assets across
the extended enterprise — data centers, colocation
facilities, edge and cloud. Many of the world’s largest
and most sophisticated data centers use Nlyte
to become more agile, reduce costs and operate
more efficiently.
Cleveland, Ohio-Park Place Technologies is
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The Oracle Cloud offers a complete suite of
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Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing,
virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions
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virtualization software, disaster recovery software,
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ServiceNow HR Service Delivery is an integrated suite
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Taos empowers enterprises to operate efficiently,
rapidly innovate, and scale their business by
providing strategic and technical guidance with
hands-on support. As a Technical Solutions Provider,
we specialize in cloud strategy, migration, and
managed services powered by our DevOps practice.
TidalScale is the leading provider of Software-
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Datrium LAMDBA LABS, INC Service Express
AppNeta PacketFabric Virtual Instruments
Diamanti Legrand Silver Peak
Apptio Percona Wasabi
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Apstra PhoenixNap xMatters Inc
Everbridge Martello Technologies Stonebranch
Arista Networks Corporation Platform9 Zenoss
Fixstream StorMagic
Aryaka Networks, Inc. Moogsoft QTS Data Centers ZPE Systems
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