Discovering Mainframe TCO: Tools help with the heavy lifting for cost transparency of applications
In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Brett Allison, Program Director of IBM Z AIOps takes on the role of guest host to interview Jon Ulrich, Health Insurance Industry IT Engineer. The focus of the discussion today is Cost Transparency and the impact for IT Operations, using IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS and IBM Apptio Mainframe Total Cost of Ownership. Brett and Jon dive into the journey for more graphical visibility and tying cost transparency for applications to achieve 90% of CPU consumption.Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.
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Simplification and standardization are driving the future of AI
In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Fellow, CTO for IBM Z Ecosystem. The focus of the discussion today is AI technology for the IBM Z ecosystem. Rosalind tells us how simplification and standardization are key elements driving the future of AI. She brings it all together with a use case from the IBM CIO office.Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.
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Comparison for OpenTelemetry decision speed to Formula One racing
In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Ruediger Schulze, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM. The focus of the discussion today is observability and OpenTelemetry for trace management and metrics. The solution focus is on IBM Instana Observability for z/OS, IBM Z APM Connect and IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider. To learn more about the OpenTelemetry Special Interest Group that Ruediger references, visit this slack channel: https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C05PXDFTCPJAlso, to learn more about what OpenTelemetry is, visit this video by Chris Walker: https://ibm.biz/POV-Open-Telemetry Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.
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The role of System Automation in an AI future
In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Paul Koniar, IT Architect specializing in System Automation and NetView at FIS. Our focus topic for this podcast is System Automation. Paul says that “AI running on the mainframe with tools like System Automation…will be very beneficial.” “AI has to step in and help the operators do their jobs”.Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.
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Just cut and paste with OMEGAMON and the new Grafana plug-in
In this episode in the series recorded at the AIOps Technical Council 2025 (AOTC) meeting in RTP, NC, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Jim Porell, Director, Solutions Advisor at Rocket Software. Our focus topic for this podcast is IBM Z OMEGAMON with the new Grafana plug-in. Just cut and paste from your existing tool into the Grafana plug-in, no migration tool needed! Experience easier data accessibility and CPU utilization reduction with OMEGAMON. And finally, build on what’s out there by sharing dashboards on the z Open Data Github: https://github.com/z-open-dataPlease 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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