BMC AMI Cloud Sales Specialist Colleen Gordon and Senior Product Manager Tomer Zelberzvig discuss the history of secondary storage of mainframe data, the current state of tape and VTL, how object storage is the future of mainframe data storage, and how the new Cloud Data Sets feature in BMC AMI Cloud Data is changing the way data storage is handled.

Links:

Blog: Goodbye, Tape: The Future of Mainframe Data Storage - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/future-of-mainframe-data-storage/

BMC AMI Cloud - https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-cloud.html

Blog: BMC’s Path to Hybrid Cloud Innovation - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/bmc-path-hybrid-cloud-innovation/

Podcast: Ransomware and Immutable Backups on the Mainframe - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/ransomware-and-immutable-backups-on-the-mainframe

Podcast: Why Hybrid Cloud for Mainframe Data Protection – And Why Now? - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/hybrid-cloud-mainframe-data-protection-why-now

BMC Technology Solutions Director and DevOps Evangelist Anthony Anter leads a roundtable discussion with BMC Associate Solution Engineer Rachel Clevenger and Senior Associate Software Consultants Nick Guillemette and Dakota Locklear about their careers, what drew them to the platform, and how mainframe organizations can attract new talent.

Links:

Blog: Why Mainframe Development Is a Great Career Choice - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-development-great-career-choice/

Podcast: The Mainframe on Campus with Dr. Cameron Seay - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/the-mainframe-on-campus-with-dr-cameron-seay

Blog: These Are Mainframe Development’s Good New Days - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-application-development-good-new-days/

Blog: The Next, Next Generation of Mainframers Is Here - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-next-generation-is-here/

Blog: Two Generations of COBOL: My Grandma and Me - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/two-generations-of-cobol-my-grandma-and-me/

Intellyx Director and Principal Analyst Jason English joins BMC Vice President of R&D David Jeffries, Vice President of Solution Marketing Management Priya Doty, Senior Product Development Architect Anthony DiStauro, and Principal Product Manager Liat Sokolov for a roundtable discussion about the role of artificial intelligence in mainframe transformation.

Links:

BMC AMI Platform Statement of Direction: Simplify Mainframe Management with AI and Cloud - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/bmc-ami-platform-statement-direction-ai-cloud/

Blog Post: You’ve Never Mainframed Like This: Introducing BMC AMI Assistant, by John McKenny - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/genai-introducing-bmc-ami-assistant/

E-book: Harnessing AI and Generative AI for Mainframe Operational Resilience - https://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/74/59/547459/547459.pdf

White Paper: Mainframe Transformation Journey: Blueprint for Integrating GenAI Services Within a Cloud-Native Platform - https://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/88/76/548876/548876.pdf

BMC AMI Assistant Solutions Brief - https://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/87/71/548771/548771.pdf

2024 BMC Mainframe Survey – https://www.bmc.com/info/mainframe-survey.html

Podcast: The Impact of AI and Generative AI on Mainframe Operational Resilience - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/ai-mainframe-operational-resilience

Podcast: Generative AI and the Mainframe Developer Experience - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/generative-ai-and-the-mainframe-developer-experience

BMC Director of Product Management Alan Warhurst, Senior Solution Engineer Steven Dzikowski, and Principal Solution Marketing Manager Nick Mears explore how cutting-edge technologies like AI, machine learning (ML), and intelligent automation are revolutionizing mainframe operations, all within the context of a future-proof interface designed specifically for equipping the next generation of system programmers (SysProgs).

Links:

Blog Post: Equipping SysProgs with AI, ML, Intelligent Automation -

https://www.bmc.com/blogs/aiops-equipping-sysprogs-with-ai-mi-intelligent-automation/

On-Demand BMC Tech Talk: In Focus: The BMC AMI Ops HTML 5 GUI - https://events.bmc.com/bmc-tech-talk-in-focus-bmc-ami-ops-html-gui

BMC AMI Ops Insight – https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-ops-insight.html

BMC AMI Ops Automation for Data Centers – https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-ops-automation-data-centers.html

BMC AMI Ops Monitoring - https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-ops-monitoring.html

BMC AMI Cloud Sales Specialist Colleen Gordon and Worldwide Director of Cybersecurity Sales Ken Chism talk about the threat of ransomware on the mainframe, how organizations can work to prevent attacks, how to recover in the event of an attack, and the importance of immutable backups to those recovery efforts.

Links:

White Paper: Mainframe Under Attack: Essential Measures for Ransomware Resilience - https://www.bmc.com/documents/white-papers/mainframe-under-attack-essential-measures-for-ransomware-resilience.html

BMC AMI Security - https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-mainframe-security.html

BMC AMI Cloud - https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-cloud.html

Blog: What DORA Means for Mainframe Teams in and Around EMEA, by Ken Chism - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/what-dora-means-for-mainframe-teams-emea/

Podcast: Mainframe Operational Resilience: DORA and Beyond - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/mainframe-operational-resilience-dora-beyond

Podcast: Why Hybrid Cloud for Mainframe Data Protection — And Why Now? - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/hybrid-cloud-mainframe-data-protection-why-now

Industry experts discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI can help organizations solve mainframe operational challenges like the loss of tribal knowledge, faster onboarding of new talent, managing cost and capacity, and more. Intellyx Director and Principal Analyst Jason English leads a panel including BMC Area Vice President of Product Management Mark Banwell, R&D Solutions Architect Anthony DiStauro, and Solutions Director Jeremy Hamilton.

Links:

Podcast: Mainframe Operational Resilience: DORA and Beyond - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/mainframe-operational-resilience-dora-beyond

Blog: Harnessing AI and Generative AI for Mainframe Operational Resilience, by Mark Banwell - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-operational-resilience-harnessing-generative-ai/

Podcast: Mainframe Observability: More Thank Monitoring - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/mainframe-observability-more-than-monitoring

Blog: Leveraging Generative AI in Mainframe DevOps, by Dave Jeffries - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/leveraging-generative-ai-mainframe-devops/

Podcast: Generative AI and the Mainframe Developer Experience - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/generative-ai-and-the-mainframe-developer-experience

BMC Director of Product Management Alan Warhurst, Technology Solutions Director Jeremy Hamilton, and Principal Solution Marketing Manager Nick Mears discuss the importance of modern tooling in mainframe operations and the results of a recent Forrester® Total Economic Impact™ study of BMC AMI Ops Monitoring.

Links:

The Total Economic Impact™ Of BMC AMI Ops Monitoring - https://www.bmc.com/documents/analyst-research/the-total-economic-impact-of-bmc-ami-ops-monitoring.html

BMC AMI Ops Monitoring - https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-ops-monitoring.html

Two generations of COBOL developers, Pat Rinehart and her grandson, BMC Developer Devin Berchtold, discuss the differences, as well as the similarities, in their experiences working on the mainframe.

Links:

Blog Post: Two Generations of COBOL, My Grandma and Me, by Devin Berchtold - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/two-generations-of-cobol-my-grandma-and-me/

Podcast: These Are the Mainframe’s Good New Days - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/these-are-the-mainframes-good-new-days

Blog Post: The Next, Next Generation of Mainframers Is Here, by Anne Hoelscher - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-next-generation-is-here/

Blog: IBM System/360 Laid Groundwork for Mainframe Innovation, by David Schipper - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-innovation-groundwork-ibm-s360/

Blog: These Are Mainframe Development’s Good New Days, by Mark Schettenhelm - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-application-development-good-new-days/

Intellyx Director and Principal Analyst Jason English, BMC Vice President of R&D David Jeffries, BMC R&D Solutions Architect Anthony Distauro, and BMC Lead Product Manager Mark Schettenhelm discuss the role generative AI is already playing in mainframe DevOps and what’s in store for the future, including how GenAI can help streamline onboarding of new developers and assist in code comprehension, how BMC is utilizing GenAI in its mainframe solutions, and more.

Links:

Blog: Generative AI in Mainframe Development: Revolutionizing Code Explanation and Documentation, by Anthony DiStauro - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/genai-mainframe-development-code-explanation-documentation/

Blog: Leveraging Generative AI in Mainframe DevOps, by David Jeffries - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/leveraging-generative-ai-mainframe-devops/

Blog: AI-Generated Mainframe Development Insights, by April Hickel - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/ai-generated-mainframe-development-insights/

BMC’s Anne Hoelscher, David Schipper, and Mark Schettenhelm talk about their mainframe careers, how things have changed since they started out, and how the mainframe has adapted to stay relevant for six decades and counting.

Links:

Blog: The Next, Next Generation of Mainframers Is Here, by Anne Hoelscher - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-next-generation-is-here/

Blog: IBM System/360 Laid Groundwork for Mainframe Innovation, by David Schipper - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-innovation-groundwork-ibm-s360/

Blog: These Are Mainframe Development’s Good New Days, by Mark Schettenhelm - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-application-development-good-new-days/