AIOps Corner
Episodes
42 episodes
Financial Institution talks Agentic AI and IBM Z AIOps
In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Executive Producer Mary Gorczynski goes rogue and interviews Wayne Bucek, Technical Sales Specialist, IBM Z AIOps, and MP Welch, Mainframe Performance Specialist for a Financi...
Providing less stress with agentic AI solutions
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 an ov...
The need for an agentic revolution for IT operations teams
In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor, interviews Kevin Stoodley, IBM Fellow, VP and CTO for IBM Z. Kevin and Joe cover a wide range of topics...
IBM Z System Automation turns 10-15 pages into 1 command
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 ep...
USAA achieves total cost transparency into business applications
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 I...
Year in review 2025 with the producers of the AIOps Corner podcast
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 Sa...
What does Trustworthy AI mean for your organization?
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 topi...
Automation - past, present, and future
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 pod...
Simplify mainframe operations, the new IBM Redbooks® publication ……thoughts from the chief architect
In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Juergen Holtz, STSM, IBM Z AIOps Chief Architect. The focus of the discussion today is the ...
New IBM Redbooks® publication on tape, the best snippets
In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Mary Gorczynski, GTM Lead for IBM Z AIOps goes rogue and takes the microphone to interview Carolyn Reschke, System Test Lead, IBM Z AIOps. The focus of the discussion today is ...
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...
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 ...
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 i...
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 t...
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 Rock...
For a “New to IBM Z” employee, AIOps “automagically” saves money
In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, and Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM Z Ecosystem, interview Virginia Rodgers, Customer Succe...
Truth or myth: there is no automation on the mainframe
This is the first podcast in a series recorded at the AIOps Technical Council 2025 (AOTC) meeting in RTP, NC. Our guests for this episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, are Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager ...
Recap of AIOps Technical Council (AOTC) 2025
In this AIOps Corner podcast, Uwe Gramm, Program Director, IBM Z AIOps gives Chris Sayles, Producer AIOps Corner podcast an overview of what he saw at the AIOps Technical Council 2025 meeting in Durham, NC. Uwe was encouraged by the feedb...
Mainframes are like Formula One race cars
In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Paul Buchanan, Principal Mainframe Systems Programmer at Ensono. Our focus topic for...
AIOps Tools reduce the noise and deliver anomaly detection faster
In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Frank Kyne, Semi-retired Editor of Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter. Our focus topic for this ...
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 ...
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 tod...
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 p...
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 s...
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 e...