AIOps Corner

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Mary Gorczynski, Executive Producer of the AIOps Corner podcast series, interviews IBM colleagues:
·       Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor
·       Domenico D’Alterio, IBM Z AIOps Principal Product Manager
·       John Baker, IBM Z Performance Management Principal Consultant
·       Chris Walker, IBM Z AIOps Principal Product Manager
We have fun and discuss memorable quotes and tips from their favorite episodes.  After that we dive into the meat of the podcast when they give us their tips to help operations teams be successful.  We cover various IBM Z AIOps solutions including IBM watsonx Assistant for Z, IBM Concert for Z, IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision and IBM Z Observability Connect. 
We hope that this episode gives you the inspiration to join us on a future podcast where you can share the tips and tricks you have gained from IBM Z AIOps solutions.
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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor, interviews Fabien Gautreault, Product Strategy & Modern UX at Rocket Software.  They discuss the latest product enhancements for OMEGAMON, the Grafana UX, and OMEGAMON AI Insights before they dive into what AI will look like in the future.  A key take away for Fabien was that “agentic AI should not come with more complexity and should not put the burden on customers to orchestrate”.  They also discuss Fabien’s work with Frank Petersen from Bankdata, who participated in a previous AIOps Corner “No shortcuts” podcast link.  
If you are interested in participating in co-designing future OMEGAMON agents, please comment here or reach out to Fabien directly on LinkedIn.
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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, we highlight clips from the Ask me Anything session Bala Rajaraman, IBM Fellow and Master Inventor hosted at the AIOps Technical Council (AOTC 2026).  Bala fields questions from Joe Lavallee a Systems Programmer at Bank of America and Ramu Kristam a CICS Systems Programmer at Truist Financial.  Bank of America was interested in a real use case for AI to satisfy enterprise operations management requirements.  Truist Financial was interested in learning how optimization can be achieved with OpenTelemetry across multiple vendor solutions within the enterprise.  As always Bala shares his insights from navigating AI solutions and proposals across multiple client engagements.
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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor, interviews Darren Surch, CEO of Interskill Learning and Lifetime IBM Champion.  Joe and Darren discuss Interskill Learning’s place in the mainframe industry, delivering over a million hours of mainframe training annually and powering 80% of IBM badges awarded for IBM Z training, and how both the importance and the nature of mainframe training is changing to keep pace in the Age of AI.  They discuss the staggering potential of AI as a productivity tool for mainframers, and the concern that without ongoing training, cognitive surrender will see mainframe skills erode, and they chat about the IBM Champion program, the Open Mainframe Project, Joe’s mainframe t-shirt collection, and much more. 
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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, we highlight clips from the Ask me Anything session Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Fellow hosted at the AIOps Technical Council (AOTC 2026).  Rosalind fields questions from Jill Sweeney and Cassie Fosberg from FNTS; Bruno Guimaraes from Banco Bradesco; and Paul Koniar from Fidelity Information Services.  FNTS was interested in the integration of IBM Z AIOps solutions with ServiceNow and Agentic AI solutions; Banco Bradesco was interested in Observability and OpenTelemetry and FIS was interested in IBM Concert for Z.
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