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EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT Save €325 by 15 April 2016 Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2016 14 – 15 June | Berlin, Germany gartnerevents.com/euiom Key Benefits of Attending • Implementing and Managing Private or Hybrid Clouds • Organizing I&O to Support a Bimodal and Digital Future • Budgeting and Optimizing I&O Costs • Business Alignment and Demonstrating the Value of I&O • Agile, Lean and DevOps in IT Operations

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EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNTSave €325 by 15 April 2016

Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 201614 – 15 June | Berlin, Germanygartnerevents.com/euiom

Key Benefits of Attending

• ImplementingandManagingPrivateorHybridClouds

• OrganizingI&OtoSupportaBimodalandDigitalFuture

• BudgetingandOptimizingI&OCosts

• BusinessAlignmentandDemonstratingtheValueofI&O

• Agile,LeanandDevOpsinITOperations

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Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2016#GartnerIOM

I&O Leaders:

• ITInfrastructureEngineer&Architect

• DataCenterFacilities

• NetworkEngineer&Architect

• Servers,Storage&BackupOperations

• ITAssetManagement

• DesktopEngineering&Operations

• EndUsercomputing

• ClientComputingOperations

• CloudPractice,CloudServiceCreationorCloudOperations

• OverallSystemPerformance

• SystemLandscapeOptimization

• ITTechServicesOperations

• CriticalFacilities

• Engineering

• SystemsAdministrator

• EventManagement

• PerformanceStatistics

• Database,StorageNetwork

• MiddlewareAdmin&Management

• ITServiceManagement

• ReleaseManagement

• ServiceSupportandDelivery

TherapidriseofthedigitalworkplacehasplacedheighteneddemandsonInfrastructureandOperationsforsupport, speed and innovation. I&O teamsarebeingcalledupontodeployservicesmorequicklythaneverbeforewhileensuring a flawless customer experience fromstarttofinish.ButacceleratingthespeedandqualityofITservicesleadstodifficultyinstrikingthecritical balance between stability and structure, I&O’s traditionalfocus,andagilityandinnovation.

Transformationrequiresasolid foundation fromwhichtodrive and deliver sustained business value.Butaretoday’sInfrastructureandOperationsmatureenoughtomasterthechallenge?AreI&Oleadersreadytorethinkwhattheydoandhowtheydoitandnotbecomeblindsidedbyoutdatedbeliefsandpractices?

RethinkI&O:BalancingControl,AgilityandInnovation

Who Should Attend

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Gartner Predicts:

“ By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-Internet” policy is today.”

“ By 2020, 20% of clients will be using DevOps to support traditional IT initiatives, up from fewer than 5% today.”

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KeynotesGuest KeynoteAbsolute Power, Absolute Responsibility — The True Force of the Digital Revolution

AndreasEkströmaddressessociety’s dependence on technology,andthespeedofinnovation.Throughexamples,hewilltouchonquestionsthatthetechnologymoversandshakersneedtobeabletoanswerinordertomoveforwardresponsibly—notasaserviceunit,notasapassivereceiverofrequests,but

asabusinessleaderwithineachorganization.Thetalkalsoaddresseswhathappenswhentheformer,classiccustomerorclientrelationshipchanges,stepbystep,asthecustomerbecomesauser,oranambassador,orinbest/worstcaseapurefan.

Andreas Ekström, Journalist, Author and Digital Futurist

Gartner KeynotesIT Operations in 2020: Ideal or Irrelevant

IToperationsisexperiencingadramatic changefromexternalforces,business expectations,andnew tools and processes.ThiskeynotewilladdresshowtoprepareI&O professionalstoenterintothenextdecadeinwhatmightbea

goldenageortheendofIToperationsasweknowit.

Milind Govekar, Research VP and Biswajeet Mahapatra, Research Director

Industries Will Become Fluid in the Era of Digital Business

Digital businesswilldrivechangetowardanewandunprecedented business environment,whichwillbecharacterizedbyindustryfluidity.Thisisbecausecustomeraredrivingdigitalizationwhichisreducingthebarrierstoentrybetweenindustries,making boundaries more fluid and open

tonewbusinessopportunities,newentrantsandcompetitors.Traditionalindustryandmarketboundarieswillbere-definedandCIOsandbusinessleadersmustgetready for enterprise agility and capabilitiesverydifferentfromthosethatdrovesuccesshistorically.Thissessionlooksatthekey capabilities thatanenterpriseneedstodevelopto survive in digital business.

Miriam Burt, Research Vice President

What’s New in 2016• Importance of Bimodal IT – focus

on bimodal strategy, its impact on I&O teams, compliance and balancing agility, control and innovation

• DevOps: From Hyper to Reality – ITIL vs DevOps, impact of DevOps on incident response, change management and I&O organization and culture

• ITSM Leap: The Road to Higher Maturity – ITSM, future of the service desk, I&O staffing, business value dashboard, business alignment and cloud management platforms

• Emerging Trends in IT Operations – impact of IoT, Security for cloud and mobile scenario, agile methodologies

• Infrastructure Innovation – More content on Software Defined X, Hybrid IT

• I&O Leadership – I&O leaders game plan for 2016: emphasis on leadership skills and building effective I&O teams

• More discussion topics – Mobility, Shadow IT and I&O role supporting digital business

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AgendaataGlance

Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2016

08:30–20:00 RegistrationandInformation

08:45–09:15 Tutorial:OrganizationsCanBenefitFromITILandDevOps Ian Head

Tutorial:DecodingtheI&OAutomationMarketLandscape.WhatdoyouNeedandWheretoStart? Vivek Bhalla

09:30–10:45 Summit Opening and Welcome Presentation: IT Operations in 2020: Ideal or Irrelevant Milind Govekar and Biswajeet Mahapatra G

10:45–11:15 RefreshmentBreakinSolutionShowcase

TRACKS A. DevOps: From Hype to Reality B. Building Bimodal IT Operations C. ITSM Leap: The Road to Higher Maturity

D. Emerging Trends in IT Operations E. Infrastructure Innovation Workshops Analyst-User Roundtables

11:15–12:00 ScalingDevOpsInitiativesGeorge Spafford

PerformanI&OSkillsGapAnalysistoSupportaBimodalandDigitalBusinessFuture Ed Holub G

Re-thinkingAPMinaDigitalBusinessEra Will Cappelli F

OutoftheDarkAges:NewWaystoMobilizeLegacyApps Joachim Herschmann F

TheImpactofNewTechnologyTrendsonERPInfrastructure Phil Dawson

11:00 – 12:30 Workshop:FocusonTheseSixKeyFinancialMetricstoHelpDetermineVendorViability Kevin Knox

11:00 – 12:00 Roundtable:HowBesttoConsolidateandMigrateDataCentersandI&O Tiny Haynes

12:00–13:15 LunchintheSolutionShowcase 12:10 – 12:30 MagicQuadrant:ITSSM Chris Matchett 13:00 – 14:00 Roundtable:MobileOpsinaDigitalAgeJoachim Herschmann F

13:15–14:00 SevenStepstoStartYourDevOpsInitiative Ian Head

LearningFromtheMastersinPrivateandHybridCloudComputingBiswajeet Mahapatra

BusinessValueDashboards—YourPathwaytoBusinessImpactAlignment Pankaj Prasad

ShouldyouuseOpenStackasYourPrivateCloudIaaSPlatform?Tiny Haynes

ModernizingBackupandDRStrategyinanEraofCloudandBigData Robert Rhame

13:00 – 14:45 Workshop:LeveragingGartner’sI&OMaturityModeltoDriveImprovements Ed Holub

14:15–14:45 SolutionProviderSessions

14:45–15:15 RefreshmentBreakinSolutionShowcase 14:50 – 15:10 MagicQuadrant:CloudEnabledManagedHostingEurope Tiny Haynes15:00 – 16:00Roundtable:DevOpsTooling—LessonsLearned Ian Head

15:15–15:45 CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy 15:15 – 16:45 Workshop:BVD/BuildI&OMetricsthatMatter,CommunicateValuetotheBusinessKevin Knox 16:00–16:45 EnergizingReleaseManagement

withAutomation:TheHeartbeatofDevOps George Spafford

TheImpactofIoTforITOperationsandYourBimodalStrategyMilind Govekar F

RenovateYourCMDBtoImproveBusinessOutcomes Chris Matchett

HowandWhenWillMicrosoftReplaceYourPhoneSystemSteve Blood

TheDarkSideofPaymentCardSecurity Jonathan Care F

17:00–17:45 Guest Keynote

17:45–20:00 NetworkingReceptionintheSolutionShowcase

07:30–17:15 RegistrationandInformation

08:30–09:30 Gartner Keynote: Industries Will Become Fluid in the Era of Digital Business Miriam Burt G

09:30–10:15 Guest Keynote: Absolute Power, Absolute Responsibility — The True Force of the Digital Revolution Andreas Ekström, Journalist, Author and Digital Futurist G

10:15–10:45 RefreshmentBreakinSolutionShowcase

10:45–11:15 SolutionProviderSessions 10:45 – 12:15 Workshop:ManagingthePCIDSSAssessmentJonathan Care 11:30–12:15 CostOptimizationinI&O

Biswajeet MahapatraBuildingaVirtual,AgileInfrastructurePhil Dawson

CanImmatureI&OReallyRuntheBusiness? Kevin Knox

ApplyingAssetManagementDisciplinetoCloud,VirtualandMobileAssets Will Cappelli

HowToMakePublicCloudSecurityaReality David Groombridge

11:30 – 12:30 Roundtable:WhyAren'tyouEntirelyintheCloudAlready? Tiny Haynes

12:15–13:15 LunchintheSolutionShowcase 12:20 – 12:40 MagicQuadrant:NPMD Vivek Bhalla 13:00 – 14:00 Roundtable:TheFutureStateofStorage2017Robert Rhame

13:15–13:45 TothePoint:TheFutureofEndpointManagement Terence Cosgrove

AssetManagementinBimodalWorld Will Cappelli

TothePoint:StopChasingthePurpleUnicornofServiceSupportBenchmarks Chris Matchett

TothePoint:ClosingtheInnovationGapwithMajorVendors David Groombridge

TothePoint:HowtoBuildStrongerSLAswithaCloudCommunicationsServicesFramework Steve Blood

13:15 – 14:45 Workshop:PeopleLeadershipSkillsEd Holub G

14:00–14:30 SolutionProviderSessions

14:45–15:15 CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy15:00 – 16:30 ContractNegotiationClinic:InfrastructureOutsourcingandCloudIaaS David Groombridge

14:30 – 15:30 Roundtable:ExperiencesFromPuttingaMobilityCenterofExcellenceinPlaceJoachim Herschmann

15:15–15:45 RefreshmentBreakinSolutionShowcase

15:45–16:30 AchieveDevOpsSuccessbyCombiningIaaSandPaasforContinuousDelivery Milind Govekar

TothePoint:ContinuousConfigurationandComplianceinaBimodalWorld Terence Cosgrove

GartnerITMonitoringScenarioPankaj Prasad

ToPacketorNottoPacket:AnEvolutionofNetworkMonitoringStrategies Vivek Bhalla

InfrastructureAgilityScenarioPhil Dawson F

15:45 – 16:45 Roundtable:WhataretheChallengesandOpportunitiesSurroundingDevOpsAdoption? George Spafford

16:45–17:15 TothePoint:HowCanITChangeManagementCopeWiththeVelocityofDevOpsChanges?George Spafford

TothePoint:OrganizingYourI&OTeamtoSupportBimodalITCapabilities Ed Holub G

TothePoint:DiversityintheI&OOrganization Kevin Knox

TothePoint:IdentifyProofingforSecurePayment Jonathan Care

TothePoint:FutureofInfrastructureMonitoring Pankaj Prasad

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08:30–20:00 RegistrationandInformation

08:45–09:15 Tutorial:OrganizationsCanBenefitFromITILandDevOps Ian Head

Tutorial:DecodingtheI&OAutomationMarketLandscape.WhatdoyouNeedandWheretoStart? Vivek Bhalla

09:30–10:45 Summit Opening and Welcome Presentation: IT Operations in 2020: Ideal or Irrelevant Milind Govekar and Biswajeet Mahapatra G

10:45–11:15 RefreshmentBreakinSolutionShowcase

TRACKS A. DevOps: From Hype to Reality B. Building Bimodal IT Operations C. ITSM Leap: The Road to Higher Maturity

D. Emerging Trends in IT Operations E. Infrastructure Innovation Workshops Analyst-User Roundtables

11:15–12:00 ScalingDevOpsInitiativesGeorge Spafford

PerformanI&OSkillsGapAnalysistoSupportaBimodalandDigitalBusinessFuture Ed Holub G

Re-thinkingAPMinaDigitalBusinessEra Will Cappelli F

OutoftheDarkAges:NewWaystoMobilizeLegacyApps Joachim Herschmann F

TheImpactofNewTechnologyTrendsonERPInfrastructure Phil Dawson

11:00 – 12:30 Workshop:FocusonTheseSixKeyFinancialMetricstoHelpDetermineVendorViability Kevin Knox

11:00 – 12:00 Roundtable:HowBesttoConsolidateandMigrateDataCentersandI&O Tiny Haynes

12:00–13:15 LunchintheSolutionShowcase 12:10 – 12:30 MagicQuadrant:ITSSM Chris Matchett 13:00 – 14:00 Roundtable:MobileOpsinaDigitalAgeJoachim Herschmann F

13:15–14:00 SevenStepstoStartYourDevOpsInitiative Ian Head

LearningFromtheMastersinPrivateandHybridCloudComputingBiswajeet Mahapatra

BusinessValueDashboards—YourPathwaytoBusinessImpactAlignment Pankaj Prasad

ShouldyouuseOpenStackasYourPrivateCloudIaaSPlatform?Tiny Haynes

ModernizingBackupandDRStrategyinanEraofCloudandBigData Robert Rhame

13:00 – 14:45 Workshop:LeveragingGartner’sI&OMaturityModeltoDriveImprovements Ed Holub

14:15–14:45 SolutionProviderSessions

14:45–15:15 RefreshmentBreakinSolutionShowcase 14:50 – 15:10 MagicQuadrant:CloudEnabledManagedHostingEurope Tiny Haynes15:00 – 16:00Roundtable:DevOpsTooling—LessonsLearned Ian Head

15:15–15:45 CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy 15:15 – 16:45 Workshop:BVD/BuildI&OMetricsthatMatter,CommunicateValuetotheBusinessKevin Knox 16:00–16:45 EnergizingReleaseManagement

withAutomation:TheHeartbeatofDevOps George Spafford

TheImpactofIoTforITOperationsandYourBimodalStrategyMilind Govekar F

RenovateYourCMDBtoImproveBusinessOutcomes Chris Matchett

HowandWhenWillMicrosoftReplaceYourPhoneSystemSteve Blood

TheDarkSideofPaymentCardSecurity Jonathan Care F

17:00–17:45 Guest Keynote

17:45–20:00 NetworkingReceptionintheSolutionShowcase

07:30–17:15 RegistrationandInformation

08:30–09:30 Gartner Keynote: Industries Will Become Fluid in the Era of Digital Business Miriam Burt G

09:30–10:15 Guest Keynote: Absolute Power, Absolute Responsibility — The True Force of the Digital Revolution Andreas Ekström, Journalist, Author and Digital Futurist G

10:15–10:45 RefreshmentBreakinSolutionShowcase

10:45–11:15 SolutionProviderSessions 10:45 – 12:15 Workshop:ManagingthePCIDSSAssessmentJonathan Care 11:30–12:15 CostOptimizationinI&O

Biswajeet MahapatraBuildingaVirtual,AgileInfrastructurePhil Dawson

CanImmatureI&OReallyRuntheBusiness? Kevin Knox

ApplyingAssetManagementDisciplinetoCloud,VirtualandMobileAssets Will Cappelli

HowToMakePublicCloudSecurityaReality David Groombridge

11:30 – 12:30 Roundtable:WhyAren'tyouEntirelyintheCloudAlready? Tiny Haynes

12:15–13:15 LunchintheSolutionShowcase 12:20 – 12:40 MagicQuadrant:NPMD Vivek Bhalla 13:00 – 14:00 Roundtable:TheFutureStateofStorage2017Robert Rhame

13:15–13:45 TothePoint:TheFutureofEndpointManagement Terence Cosgrove

AssetManagementinBimodalWorld Will Cappelli

TothePoint:StopChasingthePurpleUnicornofServiceSupportBenchmarks Chris Matchett

TothePoint:ClosingtheInnovationGapwithMajorVendors David Groombridge

TothePoint:HowtoBuildStrongerSLAswithaCloudCommunicationsServicesFramework Steve Blood

13:15 – 14:45 Workshop:PeopleLeadershipSkillsEd Holub G

14:00–14:30 SolutionProviderSessions

14:45–15:15 CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy CaseStudy15:00 – 16:30 ContractNegotiationClinic:InfrastructureOutsourcingandCloudIaaS David Groombridge

14:30 – 15:30 Roundtable:ExperiencesFromPuttingaMobilityCenterofExcellenceinPlaceJoachim Herschmann

15:15–15:45 RefreshmentBreakinSolutionShowcase

15:45–16:30 AchieveDevOpsSuccessbyCombiningIaaSandPaasforContinuousDelivery Milind Govekar

TothePoint:ContinuousConfigurationandComplianceinaBimodalWorld Terence Cosgrove

GartnerITMonitoringScenarioPankaj Prasad

ToPacketorNottoPacket:AnEvolutionofNetworkMonitoringStrategies Vivek Bhalla

InfrastructureAgilityScenarioPhil Dawson F

15:45 – 16:45 Roundtable:WhataretheChallengesandOpportunitiesSurroundingDevOpsAdoption? George Spafford

16:45–17:15 TothePoint:HowCanITChangeManagementCopeWiththeVelocityofDevOpsChanges?George Spafford

TothePoint:OrganizingYourI&OTeamtoSupportBimodalITCapabilities Ed Holub G

TothePoint:DiversityintheI&OOrganization Kevin Knox

TothePoint:IdentifyProofingforSecurePayment Jonathan Care

TothePoint:FutureofInfrastructureMonitoring Pankaj Prasad

17:15 SummitClose

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Agenda as of 23 February 2016 and subject to change

Agenda Tracks

Agenda Key

Each Gartner session has been identified with icons to help you locate the sessions that give you the most value.

MATuRITy LEVEL

Foundational:Offers the necessary understanding and first steps to those in the early stages of initiatives

Advanced:Uses complex concepts requiring foundational knowledge and prior experience to take initiatives to the next level

FOCuS

Tactical: Provides tactical information that can be used straightaway, with a focus on how-to’s, do’s and don’ts and best practices

Strategic: Focuses on the strategic insight supporting the development and implementation of an action plan

PERSPECTIVE

Business:Targets business leaders or IT professionals who need to understand the challenges and opportunities from a business, organizational or cultural perspective

Technology: Aids IT professionals who need to understand the challenges and opportunities from a technology perspective

Virtual Tracks

F. Supportingthedigitalbusiness

G. I&OLeadership

A. DevOps: From Hype to Reality Learn what DevOps really means, how to get started, how it can add value in your organization, and find out whether agility and DevOps are delivering on its promises.

B. Building Bimodal IT Operations Learn how to adapt to create capabilities and a culture that allows you to experiment more, and fail fast, while minimizing risk.

C. ITSM Leap: The Road to Higher Maturity This track is targeted at IT leaders who want their teams to be flexible and responsive to business needs and pressures, while improving people, process and technology.

D. Emerging Trends in IT Operations Examine emerging trends in I&O and strategies for incorporating them into future plans.

E. Infrastructure Innovation Understand how to adopt more appropriate governance and planning mechanisms, create capabilities and a culture that allows you to experiment more, and fail fast, while minimizing risk.

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