Tune in with Nicole Fagen, Director R&D, AIOps and Automation, as she hosts a thought-provoking conversation on real-world use cases of the WatchTower Platform™—an observability platform covering all your mainframe and enterprise observability needs. Nicole is joined by three industry experts working on observability: Brett Dawson, a principal systems programmer from a large financial institution; Angelica Heinrich, a Broadcom product manager working closely with site reliability engineers; and Matheus Milani, a Broadcom product manager focused on mainframe observability.
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