Mainframe day 2023 the must-attend mainframe event
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The event will begin with a meal, which will be followed by presentations by a number of renowned experts, including John McKenny (Senior Vice President and General Manager, Intelligent Z at BMC), on the theme of “Mainframe NextGen: Transform, Secure, Integrate Successfully”.
The day will end with a drink.
Jean-Michel Demoulin, CCO NRB
John McKenny, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Intelligent Z Optimization and Transformation - BMC
In this presentation, John McKenny, will highlight the amplification of mainframe-inclusive hybrid IT strategies. The focus will be on leveraging the Cloud, DevOps, and AI Ops to maximize the potential of mainframes and their pivotal role in digital transformation. The BMC Roadmap guides the exploration of this integrated approach, emphasizing the integration of mainframes within modern IT landscapes.
Hélène Lyon, zArchitect NRB
Sébastien Georis, zArchitect NRB
Our lives have changed with data. Our enterprises have to continue changing with data.
During this presentation, the speakers will show how data access patterns evolve, how Read and Update data flows have to be organized with data gravity in mind and where the clients are moving, based on NRB expertise.
Bertrand Josse, Service Line Manager NRB
Zeina Bouyakhrichan, Business Unit Manager NRB
During this presentation, the two NRB experts will present two practical success stories from overall architecture to actual realization.
What was the business value? How did we handle some accelerators? How did we overcome certain obstacles?
Frank Van der Wal, EMEA Technical Leader (CTO) for Data and AI on IBM Z at IBM
Mainframe Modernization is top of mind at most organizations. Yet, this topic is very broad and needs to be divided into sub-domains to address specific needs. In this session Frank van der Wal will zoom in on Open Source tools that can assist SysProg tasks in a modern and automated manner. IBM’s Z Open Automation Utility (ZOAU) provides an abstraction layer between z/OS commands and tasks and languages like Python. Frank will demonstrate how ZOAU works and how to create a simple Python program that will be used by an Ansible playbook to do some tasks on z/OS.
Benoit Ebner, Mainframe engineer NRB
Sébastien Georis, Information System Architect NRB
Arnaud Zanzero, Security Operations Engineer NRB
Michel Iwaschko, Architect Secops NRB
During this session, our experts will detail the main issues relating to mainframe security and explain in depth how organisations can take advantage of SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) to consolidate and analyse the logs generated by these systems. They will also discuss best practices for maximising the effectiveness of mainframe security logging, highlighting the benefits of this type of integration, such as proactive threat detection and rapid incident response.
