Welcome to IBM Destination z

The IBM home for the mainframe community. Your entry point to:

• Learn about System z and what it can do for you
• Gain skills to help you deploy mainframe solutions
• Reach out to others in the mainframe community
• Find key IBM Business Partners and their mainframe solutions
• Contact schools around the world to take advantage of their mainframe programs and augment your team with recent graduates

The community speaks Destination z members talk about the IBM mainframe ecosystem and its benefits. Blog: IMPACT 2009 Day 4! Primeur IBM Business Partners talk about System z Blog: SOA and z at IMPACT 2009! Meet HostBridge! Blog:DataDirect at IMPACT 2009 - From SQL to SOAP to Events! Blog: Sandy Carter: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) -- Off the Record Watch the Destination z member video Get Adobe® Flash® Player

What's new

	System z as a Cloud for Business Services - Available Today to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow (296KB)
	Illuminata Analyst Paper - April 2009 - Gordan Haff - IBM System z and the Cloud. (216KB)
	Speak French? Hear how Sogeti and IBM are working with a client through their Mainframe Academy program
	Announcing Enterprise Modernization to help you reduce cost, save time, and lower risk
	IBM unveils its vision for a dynamic infrastructure to help IT improve service, reduce costs, and manage risk.
	System z10 Business Class revealed in 3D. Take the online tour--open it up, pull it apart, and look at it from the inside out.
	Follow Twitter for the latest System z news and activities
	IBM responds to the competition: Get the facts

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