System Z Academic Initiative Program
The IBM Academic Initiative System z program seeks to ensure that the next generation of mainframe experts will be available to help more companies and organizations leverage the superior security, availability, scalability, and efficiency of the mainframe. The demand for IT skills is growing, especially for students who have mainframe or enterprise computing skills.
Enterprise Computing: Why you should teach it and your students should learn about it
IBM continues to modernize and simplify the mainframe platform, while partnering with IBM customers, business partners and academia from around the world to build more of the skills that industry demands. There has never been a better time to teach your students about large systems.
- All of the top 25 world banks run their businesses of mainframes.
- 23 of the top 25 global retailers run their mission-critical applications on a mainframe and rely heavily on enterprise systems-skilled employees.
- 9 out of the top 10 global life/health insurance providers process their high-volume transactions on a mainframe.
