New Scholarship Program Supports Increased Channel Demand in Mainframe Computing
ARMONK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 10/03/08 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is
collaborating with Business Partners and universities to launch a jointly
developed scholarship program for students focused on furthering mainframe
education. The new program is designed to support increased demand in
education and training in mainframe and large enterprise computing.
The new initiative -- called the IBM Destination z Enterprise Computing
Scholarship Program -- will allow students to receive scholarship funding
for educational courses that will increase their technical skills in
mainframe computing. The program will be co-funded by IBM Business
Partners who are increasing their investments in the mainframe. In just
the past eight months, the number of new partners aligned to the System z
has increased by more than 40%.
The program, which will be formally launched later this year in the US,
will offer students the opportunity for scholarship funding for such
classes including "z/OS Basics: Introduction to the New Mainframe," "Linux
on System z," and "WebSphere Application Server for z/OS," that are being
taught at membership colleges and universities.
The increase in rising energy costs and environmental concerns are putting
increased pressure on growing computer data centers that process everything
from banking and retail transactions to managing health care records.
While clients are looking for increased demand for mainframe technical
expertise to support this transformation, business partners are realizing
the opportunities to build and deploy new offerings to help organizations
looking to transform their enterprise data centers.
The scholarship program is an opportunity funded from IBM Destination z, a
multidimensional mainframe community organization dedicated to increasing
the value of IBM System z mainframes for clients. IBM Business Partners
already committed to the scholarship program include Mainline Information
Systems, Levi Ray & Shoup, Rocket Software, Vicom Infinity as well as
Universities such as Illinois State, Marist College, Minnesota State
University, Syracuse University of South Carolina, and many others.
Mainframe Ecosystem Momentum Builds
Today's news is in support of business partners who are increasingly
building new solutions running on the mainframe.
