System z skills update

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Get an in-depth look at a System z environment today and at some of the challenges and opportunities facing enterprise IT. Hear what skills, tools, and techniques are necessary to build Web-based and service-oriented environments; how new techniques of virtualization enable hardware and software consolidation, simplification of administration, and overall cost savings. See some of IBM's world-class tools specifically designed for enterprise-class application development, deployment, and management.

Audience

IT managers, practitioners

Duration

Half day

Description

Organizations that run an IBM System z platform have unique business requirements. They need an environment that can support high-volume transaction processing with demanding batch windows and large, critical application portfolios. New challenges and opportunities such as environmental constraints, system virtualization and consolidation, and new distributed applications based on a service-oriented architecture make System z a critically important platform for the future of large enterprise-scale computing.

Mainframe applications that run businesses today have billions of lines of code maintained over decades, not just years. Some applications contain lines of code written in older languages and for older devices. The number of seasoned developers who maintain these applications are being reduced by budget constraints. And the business demands even more from IT, to deliver more agile applications and to meet increased governmental regulations.

All of these factors present the enterprise IT organization with difficult challenges. But there is also tremendous opportunities for developing new and better applications, for reusing much of the existing application asset base, and for leveraging the vast computing power of System z to help greatly simplify the computing environment while substantially reducing overall costs and power consumption.

Resources

• IBM provides WebSphere software on System z for enterprises who need superior quality of service, reliability, scalability, and flexibility in their SOA and non-SOA environments.
  
  
• Watch this demo, Manage and develop System z applications to see how Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, and Rational Developer for System z can benefit your System z development process.
  
  

• The SOA Sandbox is an excellent resource for education on SOA and real-world experience using IBM SOA software.
  
  
• Download IBM product evaluation versions and get your hands on application development tools and middleware products from DB2®, Lotus®, Rational®, Tivoli®, and WebSphere®.

• Check out developerWorks blogs and get involved in the developerWorks community.