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 Angelika Heinrich, Matheus Milani, Michael Kiehl, and Nicole Fagen presented for Broadcom at Tech Field Day Extra at SHARE |
This Presentation date is August 6, 2024 at 15:30-17:00.
Presenters: Angelika Heinrich, Matheus Milani, Michael Kiehl, Nicole Fagen
The Broadcom WatchTower Platform for Mainframe Observability
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Broadcom invests in the most strategic and business-critical technologies for our customer base. Our business model is based on an investment strategy where we maximize re-investment into technological leadership. We lead the industry in investing our profits back into R&D and will always continue to invest in and fund that innovation. We aim to lead in each of our target technology segments. Infrastructure software is a great example of this strategy. Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division was formed with the 2018 with the acquisition of CA Technologies. In this session, Nicole introduces WatchTower, a mainframe observability platform that offers a unified and user-friendly experience catering to various skill levels.
Presented by Nicole Fagen, Director, AIOps and Automation, Broadcom Mainframe Software Division
Personnel: Nicole Fagen
Broadcom WatchTower Alert Insights and Machine Learning Capabilities
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In this session, Matheus Milani will present and demo two of WatchTower’s core capabilities:
– Centralized mainframe alert insights, which streamlines IT workflows so that IT staff can accelerate problem identification, investigation, and incident resolution.
– ML Insights, which uses machine learning to proactively detect when systems are behaving abnormally and provide anomaly alerts to expedite root-cause analysis for problem resolution.
Presented by Matheus Milani, Product Manager, Broadcom
Personnel: Matheus Milani
Broadcom WatchTower Topology Capability
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Matheus continues his exploration of WatchTower capabilities, in this session delivering a presentation and demo on WatchTower’s ability to automatically discover the topology of z/OS-based mainframe systems and use modern visualization technology to present intuitive views of the structure and interaction between mainframe components.
Presented by Matheus Milani, Product Manager, Broadcom
Personnel: Matheus Milani
Broadcom WatchTower Application Profiling Capability
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In this session, Mike Kiehl will present and demo WatchTower’s application profiling capability, which discovers applications as they flow across the mainframe and produces valuable insights that enhance the visibility of application assets, enabling IT to optimize performance and de-risk modernization efforts.
Presented by Michael Kiehl, Senior Manager, Product Management
Personnel: Michael Kiehl
Broadcom WatchTower Open Telemetry Capability
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In this session, Angelika Heinrich will present and demo WatchTower’s real-time streaming capability, which uses the OpenTelemetry framework to seamlessly integrate performance data from mainframe applications into enterprise observability tools to enable end-to-end transaction workflow monitoring and performance management in real-time.
Presented by Angelika Heinrich, Product Manager
Personnel: Angelika Heinrich
