Episodes

  • Derek Powe, from M&T Bank, tells us the importance of software asset management
    Jan 22 2025

    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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    17 mins
  • Year in review with the producers of the AIOps Corner podcast
    Jan 10 2025

    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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    21 mins
  • Clever people fix problems, wise people avoid them
    Dec 5 2024

    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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    21 mins
  • Stay out of jail with Backup Resiliency
    Nov 13 2024

    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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    25 mins
  • Can anything stump John Baker from IBM IntelliMagic?
    Nov 5 2024

    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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    14 mins
  • No shortcuts! AIOps is a journey
    Oct 17 2024

    In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Frank Petersen, IT Architect, Bankdata. The focus of our discussion is around AIOps being a journey and that you shouldn’t take shortcuts! They start the AIOps journey with OMEGAMON for monitoring and progress to the benefits of AI including detecting anomalies. Learn the benefits that Bankdata and their managed service providers experience on their AIOps journey with IBM.

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    17 mins
  • IBM JCL Expert gives you more confidence in an agile world
    Oct 10 2024

    In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Rebecca Levesque, CRO and Founder, 21CS. The focus of our discussion today is around the development partnership between 21CS and IBM, specifically on the IBM JCL Expert solution. Learn the benefits of IBM JCL Expert combined with IBM Workload Scheduler to build more confidence in your AIOps framework.

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    15 mins
  • Fine tuning your signal to noise ratio with IBM Z Anomaly Analytics
    Aug 30 2024

    In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Tim Brooks, IBM Senior Product Manager IBM Z AIOps. The focus is the new release of IBM Z Anomaly Analytics. Starting with the core messaging of the AIOps on IBM Z framework of Detect, Decide, Act, Tim then takes us to the evolution of this product that uses ensemble technology. With ensemble and the 4 algorithms in this release of IBM Z Anomaly Analytics, IT operators can tune the signal to noise ratio.

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    15 mins