Welcome to the newly launched independent Destination z community site, which offers a one-stop shop for everything related to IBM System z, including a blog, forums, exclusive content, partner information, client stories and more.

With the introduction of the IBM zEnterprise System, the mainframe continued its evolution to a hybrid platform. We've extended systems management across the data center, while sharing the classic strengths of the mainframe with workloads running on IBM System x blades, Power Systems blades and DataPower blades. We've expanded our reach so clients can optimize workloads, deploy enterprise clouds and take actions based on real-time analytics and big data.

Our Destination z community is evolving as well to include not only IBM System z partners, but also clients, academia and mainframe enthusiasts. I hope you'll utilize the many new resources and take part in the discussion.

The System z platform is successful because of IBM's heritage of technology innovation and our strong, vigorous community.

Thank you for your dedication to System z and for visiting this community to learn, collaborate and share your expertise.

Tom Rosamilia
General Manager
IBM Power and z Systems