Innovation with AI to drive a new era in operations
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 Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.
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Insights on new game changing hybrid cloud tools within AIOps
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.Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.
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2 Master Inventors face off on the topic of Artificial Intelligence
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/@IBMTechnologyPlease be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.
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Simplify mainframe operations with observability, performance tuning and skills
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 Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.
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Derek Powe, from M&T Bank, tells us the importance of software asset management
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. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.
AIOps Corner podcast provides a venue for advocates of AIOps on IBM Z products to share their success stories. Hosted by Joe Winchester, STSM and Master Inventor at IBM Z, guests will try to get you engaged in the “possible” for your journey to AIOps. We want to hear from you, so be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and share your thoughts on topics for future podcasts. http://ibm.biz/AIOpsCommunity
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