About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges enterprises face in accessing their data for AI and presents a framework for activating enterprise data across mainframe and cloud.

Enterprises aren’t struggling to build AI. They’re struggling to reach their own data. In this episode of Skyward Data, Jeanne Glass breaks down the 2026 framework for activating enterprise data across mainframe and cloud — instantly and safely. Learn why modernization is no longer a migration project, why integration isn’t enough, and how forward-thinking CIOs are building AI-ready hybrid data platforms without disruption. Your AI needs data. This episode explains how to deliver it.

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Guest: Jeanne Glass

Topics covered

• data access
• AI
• enterprise data
• modernization
• hybrid data platforms
• CIO strategies

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