AIOps Corner

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, and Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM Z Ecosystem, interview Virginia Rodgers, Customer Success Manager at 21CS.  Our focus topic for this podcast is mainframe AIOps in the eyes of a “New to Z” employee.  Join us to hear the welcoming observations and surprises Virginia has encountered during her brief career with the mainframe.

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This is the first podcast in a series recorded at the AIOps Technical Council 2025 (AOTC) meeting in RTP, NC.  

Our guests for this episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, are Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, and Sowmya Kameswaran, IBM STSM and Chief Architect IBM watsonx Assistant for Z.  Our focus topic for this podcast is observability for unlocking insights with a new Grafana plugin within IBM Z OMEGAMON.  In addition to highlighting customer use cases for OMEGAMON and IBM watsonx Assistant for Z, Sowmya and Joe talk about the myth that there is no automation on the mainframe by highlighting solutions within the IBM Z AIOps. 

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In this AIOps Corner podcast, Uwe Gramm, Program Director, IBM Z AIOps gives Chris Sayles, Producer AIOps Corner podcast an overview of what he saw at the AIOps Technical Council 2025 meeting in Durham, NC.  Uwe was encouraged by the feedback that IBM received from the clients and partners as they try to set the IBM strategy for AIOps in an AI driven world.  

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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 Paul Buchanan, Principal Mainframe Systems Programmer at Ensono.  Our focus topic for this podcast is AIOps in the eyes of a managed service provider.  Listen to hear how Paul thinks mainframes are like Formula One race cars and how IBM Z AIOps solutions help them to reduce the time to resolution.  Learn more about how IBM is now a sponsor of Formula One.

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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 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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