In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Frank Kyne, Semi-retired Editor of Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter.  Our focus topic for this podcast is AIOps from the eyes of a mainframe editor.  Frank provides his views on IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, the recent IBM z17 launch and his overall views on using AI for anomaly detection.

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Skyla Loomis, General Manager, IBM Z Software.  The focus of the discussion today is on the importance of simplifying mainframe operations for clients.  In addition to telling us about the new IBM Z Operations Unite release complementing the IBM z17 hardware release, Skyla tells us about the AIOps Technical Council (AOTC) event June 3-5, where she will be the keynote sharing the IBM Z Software strategy for delivering innovation with AI in a new era in operations.  Register today to join us at the event!  https://ibm.biz/AOTC-2025 

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Andy Bradfield, Vice President IBM Z Hybrid Cloud Software.  The focus of the discussion today includes Andy’s insights on game changing tools from IBM.  Andy takes us on a journey from hybrid cloud to what’s in store for integration of IBM Z AIOps software with the next generation hardware.  He gives us a sneak preview of new operational tools making a difference with AI and an advertisement for the AIOps Technical Council.  We encourage you to join us at the event where you can partner with subject matter experts on designing the next generation of products.

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Martin Keen, Master Inventor at IBM and winner of the NC Inventor of the Year award with 400 patents.  The focus of the discussion today is the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI).  They dive into Martin’s view on AI Trends for 2025, and try to weave operations into the story across things like large language models, agentic AI, RAG algorithms, IBM Granite 3.0 and watsonx Assistant for Z.  To see more content with Martin, visit the IBM Technology YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@IBMTechnology

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, Director AIOps on IBM Z.  The focus of the discussion today is the simplification of mainframe operations.  During their discussion Sreekanth takes the opportunity to encourage listeners to sign up to provide feedback on the BETA program for the new IBM Z Operations Unite product.  To learn more visit this blog:  https://ibm.biz/AIOps-Unite-Beta 

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Derek Powe, Senior Vice President, zPlatform Manager at M&T Bank.  They discuss how the end-to-end observability plan is to make the mainframe transparent, which will enable you to pull up your topology mapping on an ipad.  IBM Z Software Asset Management is just one of the products within the IBM Service Management Suite that helps him to detect and maintain assets across multiple vendor solutions. 

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, is joined by the IBM producers of the podcast series, Mary Gorczynski, GTM Marketing Manager and Chris Sayles, Digital Marketing Strategist.  Mary and Chris have fun discussing what it’s like to produce this podcast and review highlights from the 16 episodes that we have delivered in 2024.  You will love the clips from some of our fabulous guests!

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Yasemin Ciftcisoy Sen, Z Middleware and Communication Services Manager, at a Turkish bank.  The focus of the discussion today is OMEGAMON and how Yasemin uses it for preventive automation.  Yasemin discusses how she has been using OMEGAMON for 20 years to set resource limits for the 1.5 billion daily transactions.  Her words of wisdom are that while “clever people fix problems, wise people avoid them”.  Those are definitely words of wisdom.

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Rebecca Levesque, Chief Revenue Officer and Founder, 21CS.  The focus of our discussion today is around the product IBM Z Backup Resiliency and the importance of having a cyber resilient industry solution to keep you compliant and out of jail.  Joe and Rebecca also dive into the competitive differentiating new features, vs homegrown solutions and why you should care.

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews John Baker, IntelliMagic Principal Consultant at IBM.  Our focus is on the life of an IntelliMagic consultant, post acquisition into IBM Z AIOps.  They talk about IntelliMagic and the future with System Automation, Workload Scheduler and the IBM Z AIOps portfolio.  You will have to listen to see if anything has stumped John during his career in performance management.

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