CA Technologies announced the first five recipients of scholarships to its Mainframe Academy.

The recipients include an IBM intern based in the U.S., a systems analyst for BRQ IT in Brazil, a University of Kentucky graduate interning at General Electric, and two system programmers from Garanti Technology in Turkey.

The academy offers an accelerated educational curriculum to helps promising young technologists expand their skills in mainframe management.

The program was announced in March 2011 promising over $1 million in grants to attend the Mainframe Academy through 2016. 

Recipients are selected by SHARE representatives, who award  scholarships to applicants that demonstrate a desire to master mainframe programming skills.

“With the mainframe continuing to play a vital role in their IT strategies, many of our global customers are looking at ways to proactively address the skills gap as senior staff approaches retirement age,” said Dayton Semerjian, general manager, Mainframe, CA Technologies. “We created the Mainframe Academy to help address this requirement and help some of the best young talent get a jump-start to a career in IT.”

“CA Technologies is providing a great opportunity with its Mainframe Academy scholarship program,” said Janet Sun, President, SHARE Inc.  “We are pleased to participate in the selection process and to support the growth and development of the next-generation of mainframe talent.  This aligns with our zNextGen program and is supported by the research we have done regarding the Mainframe Skills Gap.”

The scholarship winners are: 

Faik Erdem Dalkilic

MVS System Programmer, Garanti Technology
Turkey

Tanya Moore

Boulder GDF Production Scheduling Analyst Intern, IBM
United States

Ahmet Alper Tecimer

z/OS System Programmer, Garanti Technology
Turkey

Daniela Ferreira de Paiva

Systems Analyst
BRQ IT Services

Clinton Woodson

Infra Engineering Intern, GE Aviation
United States

CA Technologies will present at DatacenteDymanics Converged Conference in New York,

Dhesikan Ananchaperumal Vice President and CTO of CA’s ecoSoftware business unit focusing on DCIM will discuss:

·         Value of consolidation of data from IT, facilities and other systems and devices within a data center

·         Importance of data accuracy, organization, structure and relationships

·         Benefits of defining meaningful metrics related to the business needs – in addition to standard metrics and measurements

·         Data presentation at a device level, data center level, service level or any containerized entity level.

·         Understand what changes are needed for availability and optimization

·         Trigger manual and automated changes and monitor this continual process

·         Integration of Data center energy/infrastructure management with an existing IT management process.