Join the IBM Destination z mainframe community! Take advantage of this new opportunity to help extend your market reach, connect with other business associates and collaborate with industry experts on building and selling mainframe solutions.
Why IBM System z?
The IT environment is changing. Increasing cost pressures and the availability of new technology are causing businesses to reassess their current IT and hosting strategies. IBM System z can help your clients address these pressures and take advantage of these technologies by:
Enabling the power of service oriented architecture (SOA) while providing well-known mainframe security, reliability, performance, flexibility, and overall cost savings. SOA helps clients maintain existing applications while integrating new processes into an IT infrastructure.
Controlling energy costs without sacrificing processing power or system performance - The extremely efficient resource utilization of IBM System z may be able to maximize information output while minimizing energy consumption.
Providing fast provisioning speeds and dynamic allocation of system resources–allocating resources to applications when and if they need it and enabling the merging of disparate systems and consolidating workloads.
Demonstrating constant MIPS (millions of instructions per second) growth over the last 12 quarters, the IBM System z mainframe competes with a vengeance and continues to help IBM Business Partners grow their businesses.
What is IBM Destination z?
IBM Destination z is a community of companies and educational institutions that work together to deliver strong business value to their customers by enabling them with technologies to centralize and optimize control and expense of their IT infrastructure. The community adds value by providing a comprehensive ecosystem that enables companies to develop or move computing workloads to the System z platform to help realize improved IT value including superior TCO, energy efficiency and security.
The objectives of IBM Destination z are to:
Foster a community for networking among mainframe solution providers and customers
Provide access to resources for new customers adopting System z technologies
Assist customers and accelerate the movement of new workloads to System z
Provide accessibility to application and services providers supporting mainframe solutions
Provide information on activities available related to the mainframe including education.
Share customer success stories
IBM Destination z encompasses a wide variety of organizations that provide the information and resources needed to migrate, modernize and maintain applications on System z and can facilitate cooperation and synergy among providers of:
Software tools to modernize or migrate applications to System z
Services and methodologies that provide proven paths to System z from distributed systems
Education and training to grow and enhance the available skill set for support of applications on the System z
Software solutions that can deliver leading applications and take advantage of the strengths and capabilities of System z
The new IBM Destination z Web site facilitates the sharing of information among IBM Business Partners and is a key resource for existing and potential System z clients (including ISVs, Resellers, System Integrators, and members of the academic community) to find information relating to System z, its solutions and applications, the availability of services, education and training and client success stories. The Web site is a focal point for members of the System z community and assists:
IBM Business Partners with quick and efficient access to System z resources and support via the IBM Destination z portal to help create synergies and to maximize their effectiveness.
Academic institutions to connect with real world situations to enable students, professors and professionals to exchange information and experiences with the System z.
Customers to access information on:
The experiences of other customers who have successfully installed new workloads on the mainframe or made the transition from distributed systems to consolidated systems using the IBM mainframe
The advantages of these moves
Tools and practitioners with a proven track record of success in managing such implementations
How do I benefit as an IBM Business Partner?
IBM Business Partners play an important role in this community since they work with IBM or together to develop, package and promote a solution that can help to broaden their market reach, drive new business opportunities and increase revenue.
Your participation in the IBM Destination z community may increase your sales, revenue opportunities, including help grow overall profits by:
Expanding your market reach through new channels
Generating awareness and increasing visibility for your solutions and services
Helping you build superior solutions through IBM and member to member teaming
Increasing your business and technical skills through available education
Decreasing solution development and deployment time through enhanced technical enablement and support access
What is required to be a member?
IBM Business Partners wishing to join the IBM Destination z community must meet specific requirements relating to PartnerWorld membership, System z offerings, demonstrated competencies, customer references, and more.
