Splunk Enterprise vs. IBM Turbonomic

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Splunk Enterprise
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Splunk is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.N/A
IBM Turbonomic
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
IBM Turbonomic 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. IBM states that Turbonomic customers report an average 33% reduction in cloud and infrastructure waste without impacting application performance, and return-on-investment of 471% over three years over…
$3,333
per month per installation
Pricing
Splunk EnterpriseIBM Turbonomic
Editions & Modules
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IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Optimization Essentials
$3,333
per month per installation
IBM® Turbonomic Hybrid Standard (Software)
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per month Advanced hybrid cloud optimization capabilities for customers with 200 managed virtual servers (MVS) or more
IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Standard
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per month For customers with more than $2 million USD annual cloud spend
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
Splunk EnterpriseIBM Turbonomic
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details* Estimated prices do not include tax and are for new Turbonomic customers, initial purchase only. Volume discounting available.
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Community Pulse
Splunk EnterpriseIBM Turbonomic
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Splunk Enterprise

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IBM Turbonomic
Chose IBM Turbonomic
Simpler. IBM Turbonomic is more efficient and simpler to use.
Chose IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic is still trying the pick the pace and against the other products in the market. It is equivalent to SolarWinds, LogicMonitor and some part of AppDynamics but far behind SPLUNK Enterpsie and ServiceNow Now Platform due to the fact that they offer open wide …
Chose IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic has grown to a respectable level now in the market and after associating with IBM its value has been increased in terms of trust and results. From technical point of view this is a potential solution and provide almost all similar features like its competitors. …
Chose IBM Turbonomic
We found the VMware product to be very feature rich, but hard to understand what you were looking at without a lot of work.
Features
Splunk EnterpriseIBM Turbonomic
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
Splunk Enterprise
7.2
58 Ratings
8% below category average
IBM Turbonomic
-
Ratings
Centralized event and log data collection8.355 Ratings00 Ratings
Correlation8.356 Ratings00 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management8.757 Ratings00 Ratings
Deployment flexibility7.151 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools6.451 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces6.757 Ratings00 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection5.440 Ratings00 Ratings
Data integration/API management8.17 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management6.87 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching7.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
Splunk Enterprise
-
Ratings
IBM Turbonomic
7.8
9 Ratings
11% below category average
Cloud Management Security00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Cost Management00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.69 Ratings
Governance and Compliance00 Ratings7.89 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.28 Ratings
Systems Integration00 Ratings7.18 Ratings
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User Ratings
Splunk EnterpriseIBM Turbonomic
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(78 ratings)
9.1
(141 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(17 ratings)
9.0
(24 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(11 ratings)
8.0
(21 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(17 ratings)
8.0
(25 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.7
(18 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(5 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
7.3
(4 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Splunk EnterpriseIBM Turbonomic
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
It's well suited for what I do, which is network security operations. And that's for anything from troubleshooting incidents, troubleshooting performance, troubleshooting for the purpose of a compliance and auditing. It's not best suited for users who are new in terms of they're new to the product and they have expectations that probably Splunk cannot meet.
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IBM
Measure the usage of resources across different platforms, from Kubernetes to VMs on-premises or in the cloud, to obtain current capacity metrics and plan for future scenarios. Reduce IT infrastructure costs by taking automated actions based on resource underutilization, such as shutting down VMs or changing resource definitions.
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Pros
Cisco
  • It is very useful in creating custom rules for analyzing system logs and display relevant information. The query language is very easy to learn.
  • We can create custom UI to visualize the output of our data. The interface is very flexible. It also allows the sharing of rules among users.
  • There is an open online community to help others. Stackoverflow also has a splunk community. These resources make it more convenient to learn.
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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
Cisco
  • Splunk light limits number of users to 5. Wish there was a flexible license, where one could add more users.
  • Splunk light does not let you add > few realtime alerts. Wish there was a flexible license, where one could add as many realtime alerts as wanted.
  • Better insight into daily ingestion values
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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
Cisco
We are using Splunk extensively in our projects and we have recently upgraded to Splunk version 6.0 which is quite efficient and giving expected results. We keep track of updates and new features Splunk introduces periodically and try to introduce those features in our day to day activities for improvement in our reporting system and other tasks.
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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
Cisco
You can literally throw in a single word into Splunk and it will pull back all instances of that word across all of your logs for the time span you select (provided you have permission to see that data). We have several users who have taken a few of the free courses from Splunk that are able to pull data out of it everyday with little help at all.
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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
Cisco
When properly setup and configured, Splunk is extremely reliable.
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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
Cisco
No answers on this topic
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
Cisco
Splunk maintains a well resourced support system that has been consistent since we purchased the product. They help out in a timely manner and provide expert level information as needed. We typically open cases online and communicate when possible via e-mail and are able to resolve most issues with that method.
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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
Cisco
No answers on this topic
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
Cisco
The online course was simple clear and described the main capabilities of the solution. There is also an initial module that can be done for free so anyone can familiarize themselves with the functionality of this solution. On the other hand, however, there could be more free online courses. Maybe even with a certificate, this would broaden the group of people who are familiar with the platform while increasing familiarity with the solution itself.
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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
Cisco
Smooth without too many major issues.
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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
Cisco
I didn't get to fully evaluate Logstash as our corporation was already using Logstash, but both seemed like viable solutions to the problem that we were having. I wanted to evaluate Logstash some more, both did seem like they would work for the business needs that we had, we went with splunk as many teams were already using it.
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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
Cisco
Splunk can scale in to the petabyte per day range which of course is awesome
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IBM
It’s very scalable.
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Professional Services
Cisco
No answers on this topic
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
Cisco
  • I don't have any numbers to share but Splunk has positively served as a 24/7 monitoring tool that has saved hours of work by self-detecting, saving statistics and alerting problems in the system or from external interfaces as soon as they happen.
  • Splunk dashboards does a solid job in collecting, analyzing data and creating reports that contain an entire day's activity and then automatically sent out to the business.
  • Splunk is very easy to learn and very useful to any program or business application.
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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

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 Action Center, a display of 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 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.