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In today’s economic and business environment, IT faces more challenges and uncertainty than ever before. The unprecedented global economic downturn coupled with the rising IT cost elements including power, floor space, networking, and staffing are pushing existing systems and infrastructures to a breaking point. Now add the pressure to adopt new IT models and standards such as SOA, SaaS and cloud computing which are transforming the way businesses are implementing and delivering IT services, and you can understand the complex factors that impact IT decisions today.
The questions of how an organization can do more with less are common. Answering these questions and addressing these challenges requires the support of a broader IT community. Welcome to IBM Destination z, a vibrant community to help you make the most of your mainframe.
IBM Destination z brings together the IBM System z community by helping you address today’s challenges while positioning you to exploit future opportunities. The IBM Destination z community spans the entire ecosystem including companies that provide leading applications and tools, companies that provide consulting and technical services or sell you your System z hardware and solutions. IBM Destination z also includes User Group organizations such as SHARE and GSE (Guide Share Europe), Mainframe oriented magazines as well as Colleges and Universities that are working with the IBM Academic Initiative for System z to ensure future skills are available to organizations such as yours.
IBM and leading IBM Business Partners have formed this special community, IBM Destination z. Designed to be the meeting point of the System z community, Destination z brings together information and people to help speed success with mainframe deployments.
Destination z is an online gathering point for the global mainframe community, including
- Leading members of the IBM System z Business Partner community
- Students and faculty from academic institutions focused on System z curricula
- IBM mainframe experts
- Systems integrators, resellers, and independent software developers (ISVs)
- System z user groups
- Anyone with an interest in the mainframe
With contributions from the entire community, Destination z strives to become the trusted source for all things mainframe to help you build the value of your mainframe deployment. Through the Destination z portal, you can
- Learn about the latest technologies, best practices, and innovations
- Obtain mainframe skills
- Get information to help drive business decisions
- Read the successes of others
- Find partners, solutions, and people to strengthen your deployment and your team.
Join us by sharing your knowledge and insight into improving performance and resiliency, lowering ownership costs, improving security, enhancing ease-of-use, and driving down energy use and cost. Work with the community to help optimize the entire IBM System z operating environment and user experience. We invite you to explore Destination z and its resources to help you and the worldwide IT community in building a smarter planet.
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