IBM Turbonomic

Overview
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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. One of the key features of IBM Turbonomic is its ability to continuously adjust application resources in real time. By monitoring resource utilization and application performance,…N/A
Pricing
IBM Turbonomic
Editions & Modules
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
IBM Turbonomic
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
Additional DetailsVolume discounting available.
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Community Pulse
IBM Turbonomic
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Apart from Spectrum Control the others are fundamentally different to Turbonomic and so Spectrum control really has storage monitoring agents and will give you some server metrics but not the deep AIOPS that Turbonomic has and then the automation is not as mature and available …
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Resource management with openshift and turbonomic forms an ideal set for observing problems and correctly dimensioning the environment

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Simpler. IBM Turbonomic is more efficient and simpler to use.
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I think IBM Turbonomic is much much better than Datadog. Both in terms of functionality and capabilities. AI driven resource allocation is the standout feature.
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We already had the Turbonomic license acquired.
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IBM Turbonomic supports multi cloud deployments and work well with other IBM cloud/web tools we use within our organization.
While there is an initial learning curve, over long period of time it pays off once the cost benefits are realized from the efficiency gains. Given the …
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I chose IBM Turbonomic because it is a good tool that integrates any CSP and on-premises solutions. It also helps with difficult tasks related to ARM issues.
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We found that that the support we had from IBM and 3rd party vender on IBM Turbonomic was superb , and was one of deciding factors of why we choose IBM Turbonomic. We like a lot of the automation features , and how it helps our engineers work smarter. Even though the VM ware A…
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Turbonomic is class apart compared to the others. It helps you achieve what is not possible with the other solutions. Turbonomic can work in an auto-mode and keep delivering savings and business performance. No other product comes even close.
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I selected IBM Turbonomic because it is a comprehensive tool that can help me monitor and optimize the entire IT environment. The choice of IBM Turbonomic is often driven by its extensive feature set, scalability, and delivering tangible results. IBM Turbonomic stands out in …
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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 …
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Application awareness is the key success criteria of IBM Turbonomic when the comparison came on the table. To be aware of the application performance and nature when monitoring or analyzing the components and resources of the applications is the key differentiation of the IBM …
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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 …
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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. …
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Turbonomic blew the doors off the competition. When we did a comparison to our current application that was monitoring our environment, Turbonomic surpassed them with flying colors at the start during the POC. Then during the POC white we were kicking the tires around the …
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I like Turbonomic it helps us to ensure our applications get the resources they need to perform. With a complete understanding of the application and infrastructure stack, we are able to automate actions and prevent resource congestion across a hybrid cloud environment.
Features
IBM Turbonomic
Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Turbonomic
7.8
17 Ratings
12% below category average
Cloud Management Security7.313 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration8.116 Ratings
Cost Management7.717 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring7.917 Ratings
Governance and Compliance7.616 Ratings
Resource Management8.316 Ratings
Systems Integration7.416 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Turbonomic
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(147 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(24 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(21 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(25 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(3 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.7
(18 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.1
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.4
(5 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(4 ratings)
Professional Services
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Turbonomic
Likelihood to Recommend
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
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
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
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
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
IBM
VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.
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Performance
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
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
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
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
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
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
IBM
It’s very scalable.
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Professional Services
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
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 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.