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    Lakeside Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrack

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ALakeside Software offers cloud-based digital experience management. Lakeside’s Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrack, gathers and analyzes more than 10,000 metrics every 15 seconds from every endpoint across the environment, collecting edge-based device telemetry data. With continuous insights into the ecosystems that power employees, customers use Lakeside’s technology to perform: End-User Experience Management Digital Workplace Planning IT Asset…N/A

    IBM Turbonomic

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Turbonomic, now part of the Concert platform, is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by cloud, infrastructure operations, and architecture to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions. One of the key features of IBM Turbonomic is its ability to continuously adjust…N/A
    Pricing
    Lakeside Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrackIBM Turbonomic
    Editions & Modules
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    IBM® Turbonomic On-Prem
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    per month IBM Turbonomic On-prem optimizes data center resources in real time, ensuring app performance at the lowest cost by aligning infrastructure supply with dynamic application demand.
    IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Standard
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    per month For customers with more than USD 1.6 million in annual cloud spend or 50 Managed Virtual Servers (MVS) or greater
    IBM® Turbonomic Hybrid Standard
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    per month Advanced hybrid cloud optimization capabilities for customers with 200 managed virtual servers (MVS) or more
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Lakeside Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrackIBM Turbonomic
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Volume discounting available.
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    Community Pulse
    Lakeside Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrackIBM Turbonomic
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    Lakeside Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    95%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    Features
    Lakeside Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrackIBM Turbonomic
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of Lakeside Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrack and IBM Turbonomic
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    Ratings
    IBM Turbonomic
    8.0
    24 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings7.818 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings8.725 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings7.926 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings8.426 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings7.624 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.325 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings6.725 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Lakeside Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrackIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (156 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
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    7.7
    (21 ratings)
    Availability
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    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
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    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    In-Person Training
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
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    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
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    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    Configurability
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    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
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    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
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    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    10.0
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Lakeside Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrackIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Lakeside Software
    We are able to get to the root of the issue much more rapidly this way, and we don't have to interrupt the end user in order to see how their computer is functioning. Systrack is installed on-premises at our company. Check out that hosted infrastructure if you're in the market for it. In a matter of minutes, you may move from one workstation to more than 100k.
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    IBM
    Datacenter Consolidation and Hardware Optimization: This scenario is relevant to you as a hardware manager. It applies when you have physical servers (like Power or System z) and want to maximize virtual machine density. Why it works: IBM Turbonomic analyzes the peak usage times of each VM. If VM "A" is active during the day and VM "B" at night, it places them on the same physical host. Ideal scenario: Data migration projects or when you're told, "[...], there's no budget for more servers this year, make everything fit on what we have." Consolidación de Datacenters y Optimización de Hardware,Este escenario te toca de cerca como encargado de Hardware. Cuando tienes servidores físicos (como los Power o System z) y quieres maximizar la densidad de máquinas virtuales.Por qué funciona: IBM Turbonomic analiza las horas pico de cada VM. Si la VM "A" es activa de día y la VM "B" de noche, las coloca en el mismo host físico.Escenario ideal: Proyectos de migración de datos o cuando te dicen: "[...], no hay presupuesto para más servidores este año, haz que quepa todo en lo que tenemos". This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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    Pros
    Lakeside Software
    • Systrack may also be scaled up thus simply
    • Systrack provides a comprehensive picture of each system
    • Systrack's customer service is second to none
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    IBM
    • Presentation is nice. Its easy to understand what your looking at and the data that is being presented to you.
    • Properly identify resource utilization and recommendations for action on how VMs can be improved and resources can be better utilized.
    • It was also able to tell us the same information and analysis for cloud resources. I was not expecting that.
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    Cons
    Lakeside Software
    • Every new version brings new ideas and capabilities to the table
    • Because of the sheer volume of information available, it can be difficult to know where to begin
    • With enough time and skill, creating bespoke dashboards with meaningful titles may be effective
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    IBM
    • It would be nice if the UI included a break-down of features that are both licensed as well as un-licensed. That way, you could not only see what you have, but what you don't.
    • The right-sizing recommendations are great, but very little info is given about why the recommendation is being made. More info would not only increase understanding, but would also help drive decision-making.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Lakeside Software
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    IBM
    We are certainly happy with Turbonomic as a whole and have invested quite a bit of time and effort into learning the ins and outs of the product. We have our reporting setup the way we want it and have gained definite value from these features. I will say though that many products nowadays are offering more native monitoring, reporting, and alerting features which may eventually steer us away from this product
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    Usability
    Lakeside Software
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    IBM
    Excellent approach to larger VM organizational management. They have an very clean integrated dashboard that allows us to see everything in our environment and what that is doing in real-time. It works on multiple hyper-visors really well and integrates capacity planning on my local site as well as my cloud locations.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Lakeside Software
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    IBM
    VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.
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    Performance
    Lakeside Software
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    IBM
    It allocates resources among applications by showing more on the cost breakdown by cloud service, with metrics on cloud provider information like Azure Management, Identity, Networking, Storage with costs per day, and total services costs. This then could facilitate and show the corresponding actions thereafter upon scaling.
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    Support Rating
    Lakeside Software
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    IBM
    When I contact support I get a quick response and they are able to solve my problem quickly. I also get a sense that they want to make sure that we are getting value from the product and walk me through whatever steps are needed to accomplish my goals.
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    In-Person Training
    Lakeside Software
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    IBM
    Alex (from VMTurbo) has worked with the product for years and helped develop the product. He was very knowledgeable and was able to provide our support team with details knowledge on how to get our deployment configured correctly as well as help with another VMTurbo POC within another customers environment.
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    Online Training
    Lakeside Software
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    IBM
    After buying VMTurbo Operations Manager, I was invited to an online user training event. I felt this training was effective and dug just deep enough to be informative yet still keep my attention. Additionally, the webinar was free.
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    Implementation Rating
    Lakeside Software
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    IBM
    The implementation was very simple. Just upload an OVA file and power on the VM. Once it comes up enter some networking information and you can then access the web interface. From there, just begin configuring the system for your environment by adding you license and the various virtual environments and storage through the inventory tab
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    Alternatives Considered
    Lakeside Software
    Systrack is also used to provide baseline and post-change analytics for the testing of new applications and equipment. This gives me the confidence to install high-quality items that won't cause any serious problems for customers. These are just some of the useful tools Systrack offers to assess the digital experience and take appropriate action.
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    IBM
    As the organization had experience of years in using IBM products, we had the confidence that they will provide us with great support. And we needed a reliable solution as a financial institute to ensure continuous operations. Even though the price was very high, we made the correct decision to go ahead with IBM Turbonomic as the feedback from existing users in the region was very positive. We needed a solution which was capable of handling our automation requirements. All these were green in IBM Turbonomic.
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    Scalability
    Lakeside Software
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    IBM
    It’s very scalable.
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    Professional Services
    Lakeside Software
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    IBM
    Professional services were always there to guide us in our transformation to the cloud. They understood our business model and then were able to provide guidance on what we needed from the tool.
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    Return on Investment
    Lakeside Software
    • It was easy to install Systrack to a group of virtual workstations while doing CPU utilization analysis in a virtual environment
    • You still need specialists to discover and fix problems in your environments with Systrack, but it will save you a lot of time
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    IBM
    • Application performance has been a big one. With Turbonomic keeping everything running at top performance, it can make changes when extra resources are need, quicker than somebody being notified and then making the necessary changes.
    • Turbonomic has been a great cost savings for us on multiple occasions. We use it every time we are improving servers.
    • With the planning feature we get the best performance form new hardware purchases
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    ScreenShots

    Lakeside Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrack Screenshots

    Screenshot of Lakeside Assist is an all-in-one workspace for Level 1 service desk staff to quickly diagnose and resolve issues.Screenshot of Lakeside Resolve is a powerful root cause analysis tool to diagnose and resolve complex, estate wide issues by providing heightened visibility into physical and virtual desktops, quick problem resolution, and incident prioritization.Screenshot of By automating incident detection, troubleshooting, and resolution and streamlining workflows, Prevent makes robust proactive service operations possible for more members of the IT support team.Screenshot of Lakeside helps you proactively measure, analyze and optimize your employees’ digital experience anywhere they are working, all from easily consumable dashboards that surface that data you need quickly.Screenshot of Provide the right-sized hardware for different departments across your organization, saving IT costs and improving DEX. Take the guess-work out of your next refresh and ensure end users have what they need to be their most productive.

    IBM Turbonomic Screenshots

    Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Action Center, where it shows the list of optimization actions across the global environment—on-prem and cloud—that should be taken to minimize cost while assuring performance.Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Application, a view that shows the global environment across private and public infrastructure from the context of individual application components. Users can optimize one application at a time by viewing each app's pending actions. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities across applications and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic Cloud Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the cloud cost savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-prem Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of an IBM Turbonomic Cloud view, where the public cloud environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in the public cloud(s) and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-Prem view that shows the user's private data center environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in data center(s) and the interdependencies between them.