The need for an agentic revolution for IT operations teams

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Joe Winchester interviews Kevin Stoodley about the role of the CTO for IBM Z and the integration of agentic AI solutions in IT operations.

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 including what role the CTO for IBM Z plays in the context of delivering the IBM Z tech stack, how IBM is combining the power of agentic AI solutions with existing operational focused technologies and what value that brings to clients and their ope...

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Host: Joe Winchester

Guest: Kevin Stoodley

Topics covered

• IT operations
• agentic AI
• IBM Z
• technology integration
• client value

Keywords

• IT operations
• agentic AI
• IBM Z
• technology
• CTO
• operational technologies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IBM, IBM Z, IBM Z tech stack

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