An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
Broadcom recently launched their new WatchTower Platform for Mainframe Observability, an AI Ops solution that normalizes and routes telemetry data to multiple dashboards, while providing contextual information and alerts for improving incident collaboration between DevOps teams, SREs and mainframe experts.
As modern mainframes take their place powering true hybrid cloud applications and serving repatriated workloads, total visibility and advance warning of anomalies becomes critical. Unfortunately, mainframes are usually black boxes to the leading observability solutions on the market. Without appropriate contextual understanding, the data signals flowing amongst LPARs seem indecipherable to tools that speak in RESTful terms and API calls.
The Broadcom WatchTower platform takes an open approach to surfacing mainframe signals within any observability tool, through the OpenTelemetry (or OTel) project, as well as previously contributed open source mainframe modernization tools like the Zowe open mainframe project.
Like any large enterprise vendor, Broadcom is, well, really broad in what it can cover. When evaluating any particular solution they offer, look at both the core competencies and the commitment of the firm toward innovation in that space.
In this case, you have a solid example of net-new development built atop the foundational mainframe bonafides from CA and the many other products and mainframe customers Broadcom supports, as well as their continuing commitment to open standards that could benefit users of any of the other major mainframe computing regimes dealing with hybrid cloud concerns.
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