A Look at Mainframe Innovation at Tech Field Day Extra at SHARE Cleveland 25

I'm Steven FoST, organizer of Tech Field Day for the Futurum Group. We're taking Tech Field Day Extra to the Share Conference in Cleveland, and we'll be sharing video on Tuesday, August 19th. I hope you can tune in live or watch the recordings afterward.

Here's what's coming up. We start at 10:00 AM Eastern with Broadcom focused on their natural progression from the core mainframe product into the Watchtower platform. This is about giving customers a path to incremental observability at their own pace, whether they move quickly or take it step by step.

Watchtower utilizes mainframe and distributed systems data in a single interface, combining alerting, machine learning, application profiling, and real time streaming. This integrated view makes it easier to identify and resolve issues, optimize performance, and improve overall operational efficiency. Broadcom will show how this evolution from core products to Watchtower drives measurable customer value, helping teams adapt observability to their unique needs and priorities.

At 2:00 PM Eastern Popup Mainframe will share mainframe market realities. What main framers really think about their environments and the challenges they're working to overcome. They'll explore how to harness untapped resources, including identifying and maximizing IFL and Linux capabilities To unlock powerful underused infrastructure, you'll see demonstrations from their latest product updates, including a new fast track facility, Ansible, playbooks, and recently announced IFL support.

They'll show real world techniques for integrating IFL and Linux into the DevOps lifecycle to reduce bottlenecks, lower the effort required for critical changes, and dramatically increase release Cadence. Popp will also show proven results from organizations that have multiplied their annual release cycles through efficient resource utilization. com/tech field day.

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