AIOps Corner

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Abdul Hafiz, Principal Mainframe Engineer at an International Airline.  The focus of this episode is the automation journey from IBM Z NetView and IBM Z System Automation to a future with AI using IBM watsonx Assistant for Z to help you automate your commands.  Abdul tells us that “After implementing IBM System Automation, this process became fully automated with a single command.  The entire switch is completed in less than 5 minutes, consistently and correctly every time.”
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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, guest host Brett Allison, Program Director for IBM Z AIOps interviews Brian Craft, Assistant Vice President at USAA.  The focus of this episode is learning how USAA uses IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision with IBM Apptio to provide lines of business with total cost transparency into business applications.  The IBM solution will enable them to eliminate 300-400 batch jobs.
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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.  This Year in Review episode explores the 20 episodes of 2025, with clips from Mary’s top episode selections.  As always Chris tries to unveil some of the behind-the-scenes secrets of Joe and the future of his famous t-shirt collection!  Joe closes the episode with the key topics for 2026.
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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Phaedra Boinodiris, IBM Global Leader for Trustworthy AI for IBM Consulting.  Our focus topic for this podcast is to understand what Trustworthy AI means for your organization with the evolution from predictive AI to generative AI to agentic AI.  What does it all mean?  
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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Jennifer Graham, Mainframe Consultant at Nationwide Insurance.  Our focus topic for this podcast is Automation - past, present, and future: moving from today’s daily operations to the vision of Operations with AI.  Jennifer takes Joe through a day in her current life with IBM Z System Automation, IBM Z NetView, IBM Z OMEGAMON and IBM Z Software Asset Management on a path to what she would like to see for Operations in the future.  They end with a discussion on IBM Concert for Z and how it might help her to plan for the future by introducing AI.
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