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IBM Turbonomic

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What is IBM Turbonomic?

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…

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10 out of 10
November 08, 2023
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Popular Features

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  • Cloud Management Security (6)
    8.0
    80%
  • Automation and Orchestration (6)
    7.9
    79%
  • Cloud Management Performance Monitoring (6)
    7.9
    79%
  • Cost Management (6)
    7.8
    78%

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Pricing

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IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Optimization Essentials

$3,333

Cloud
per month per installation

IBM® Turbonomic Hybrid Standard (Software)

Varies - Request a Quote

On Premise
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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Cloud
per month For customers with more than $2 million USD annual cloud spend

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.ibm.com/products/turbonomic…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $3,333 per month per installation
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Product Demos

IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #6 Process Integration Digital Transformation

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IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #5 Deep Integrations Greater Savings

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IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #4 Automation at Scale

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IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #3 Continuous Cost Optimization

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IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #2 Decisions, Not Alerts

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IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #1 Quick and Simple Set Up

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Features

Cloud Management

Cloud management tools provide a degree of administrative control over public, private and hybrid clouds

7.8
Avg 8.7
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Product Details

What is IBM Turbonomic?

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 not using a cloud cost optimization solution. For organizations practicing FinOps, IBM Turbonomic helps accelerate the Optimize and Operation phases of the FinOps journey.


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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 viewl 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.

IBM Turbonomic Videos

Turbonomic in 2 minutes: Optimizing performance and cost across public, private, hybrid and multicloud
IBM Turbonomic Differentiation

IBM Turbonomic Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Turbonomic starts at $3333.

VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, Spot by NetApp, and Densify are common alternatives for IBM Turbonomic.

Reviewers rate Cloud Management Security highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of IBM Turbonomic are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

IBM Turbonomic Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)25%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)25%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)50%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Turbonomic is a multi-function software solution which helps us scale our business, deploy servers on the cloud, automate manual and time consuming tasks and maintain and manage our servers. It also helps us enhance our server performance and monitors our VMs and servers 24/7. Lastly it has good ROI so there is no reason to not use it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Turbonomic is a very important tool for our organisation as it handles our multiple cloud setups, ensuring we don't have any problem in scaling. And it helps us monitor and detect issues in our servers and immediately alert us so that we can fix that issue as soon as possible and our users are not affected. On the long run it has saved us money by maximising our server performance and helping us retain more of our customer.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Turbonomic to manage and monitor our cloud resources across our global cloud deployment. It helps us optimize our compute resources and direct more attention where needed. Our business compute requirement is dynamic based on various factors and loads vary based on time of day, events, seasonality etc. This tool helps us analyze and allocate compute efficiently
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Turbonomic to optimize our operations and IT infrastructure's performance and reliability. It has helped us identify and optimized underutilized resources as well as monitoring our application and infrastructure performances.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Turbonomic , across a number of sites with in access of 2000 VM's , this allows us to manage our applications to get the very best performance , we have a very small IT team , so using IBM Turbonomic saves us a ton of people resources. IBM Turbonomic has reduced our performance issues on applications , help reduce users complaining and has our IT team working better. IBM Turbonomic saves us time, money, and people resources, and makes our applications and VM estate work more effectively.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We can count on this excellent tool to monitor the performance of what is being done in the organization in the cloud. The product acts with precision and great control, notably helping in the commercial process since the applications of its functions are of a high level. Its Artificial Intelligence means that with Turbonomic, any problem that may be generated is analyzed in real-time. Everything automated is faster so that specific tasks such as modification, alarms, and in general, the analysis and repair of any problem that may arise. It has a first-class technical service that is willing to collaborate when needed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloud management is guaranteed with this tool. IBM Turbonomic delivers efficient performance with each application in service while continuously releasing any defects that may have occurred in the course of execution. It works from different clouds, both public and private, designed for modification, the desired change in dimensions, and, on the other hand, the technical service has never failed us. They are always willing to collaborate and provide the necessary help. IBM Turbonomic has a comfortable price for a tool with these help capabilities, so it is worth what you pay for.
November 08, 2023

Good experience

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
solving for too much time spent by folks in cloud economics building business cases and implementing recommendations. We're able to automatically allocate resources at the right time. Its crucial that this works in multi environments - multi cloud, hybrid cloud, on prem. Helps to solve the cost of ever rising infrastructure
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Turbonomic has helped us a lot with managng the computers in our data centre. Also everyone in the company uses it to get more done and keep an eye on information from different site. The system checks how well our processes are working which lower costs and makes sure that everythng is up to standard. Because of this, it is the best choice because it has great features like cloud management and lets us go as deep as we want in any virtual machine.
MEI KAM WONG | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Turbonomic to optimize our costs for the cloud. While the cloud is great for business, often it leads to a waste of resources. The product uses AI in a unique way to take critical actions that help deliver immense cost savings and optimize business performance. It has been an amazing journey for us.
Andrew Starodubtsev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Turbonomic as an invaluable educational and assessment platform. It serves as a comprehensive solution for conducting labs, executing solution demos, and addressing critical aspects of the software lifecycle. I use Turbonomic to identify and optimize underutilized resources in my IT infrastructure, to resolve performance problems in my IT environment, to monitor my IT resources for potential issues, to assess my IT costs. The result is the exponential improvement in DevOps practices.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I appreciate how IBM Turbonomic has organised our resources and spread to best suit our needs and preferences in order to increase efficiency. This technology makes it simple to simulate and monitor my computing systems in a virtual setup, which improves our capacity to identify system issues and fix them right away before affecting our clients.
Kenzie Cranston Lee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this great tool in the organization to maintain the total performance of applications and installations in optimal conditions, whether in the cloud or in a hybrid way, avoiding, among other things, any slowness. Since its implementation, everything in the organization has worked very efficiently. Therefore, this software avoids any possible problem that could not be solved before, as well as the automation of all the load that you want to execute.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Turbonomic checks consistency and provides accurate and specific location, helping us to assess development and make the most efficient management decisions. It has greatly simplified the management of our IT infrastructures and development performance usage for places that they are sorely needed to boost output.
February 08, 2023

Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Turbonomic is useful to help us manage the computational resources in our data center and I have significantly increased our VM deployments in recent years without ensuring optimal resource utilization. Turbonomic is very effective at identifying patterns that allow me to identify problematic players who consume a lot of resources and graphically depict the health of my virtual environment. Turbonomic gives me the ability to drill down into each virtual machine as needed and It is the best tool that offers great features like cloud management. Turbonomic can pull data from the entire set of resources that comprise my VMware environment e.g. compute, storage, and so on, and provide me with a comprehensive view of everything I have and where the bottlenecks are.
Rehan Kanuga | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Turbonomic evaluates accuracy and offers precise and exact information, allowing us to evaluate progress and make the best decisions for the business. It has made it much easier to manage our IT infrastructure and project resource requirements for certain areas where they are desperately required to increase productivity.
Kaveen Eashwarage | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have multiple online customer engagement platforms and their related functions, and they all are completely dependent on IBM Turbonomic. The fact that this application continuously monitors our virtual platforms without any lag and promptly allows us to allocate required resources at the time of need lets our online processes run smoothly without any breakdowns or system crashes. This is mighty useful specially when we run specific campaigns on various platforms and the system load needs to be increased based on the traffic enagaged. IBM Turbonomic make sure the required resources are allocated and distributed accordingly through various platforms to ensure 100% functionality.
December 07, 2022

IBM Turbonomic

A. Kıvanç Güler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Totally new vertical which address application resource management for the large enterprises. Sustainability is the key success criteria of nowadays information technology companies and every stakeholders should consider the futur or their sustainable business as a number one priority. On the other hands, application performance management is also tightly coupled into the application resource management
Rekha Yadav | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using IBM Trubonomic as the Application Performance Monitoring and Analytics Solution in our existing customers. Some times for certain customers we use IBM Turbonomic as the infrastructure such as Servers, Databases, Storage etc monitoring solution in conjuction to Apps monitoring. IBM Turbonomic is then integrated with other Event Management and Ticketing solution for end to end workflows.
Nikhil Kumar Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Turbonomic was part of our wide range of Observability and AIOPS solution. We offered and implemented this solution for our end clients to monitor and observe their IT infrastructure, Applications and event management purpose.
Due to its cloud hosting solution it was one of our favorite solution even before it was acquired by IBM.
Fernando Roque | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Researching a troubling application that integrates several back-end applications, APIs and web services, multiple databases, and even containers is very difficult for the IT department. You need the assistance of high-level Application Monitoring combined with Machine Learning to analyze the time-series event to look at the origin of the performance problem. IBM Turbonomic provides charts of all the infrastructure used by every application to have a depth analysis of the root causes of problems.
Shawn Robertson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Turbonomic can be called our early warning system. Instead of just warning us of when there is an issue, Turbonomic will take steps to fix the problems it finds, and make changes so that they do not become major problems or outages.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Turbonomic to map out our network. We use it at times to troubleshoot our fiber connection that has a fiber loop to our 2 off site locations. <br>We are very happy the way it handles new devices. We are a Ruckus shop with less than 55 nodes for the network.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Turbonomic was used to make business decisions for migrations from physical Data Centers to several cloud providers. The product provided reports on current usage, the cost to migrate, and how to optimize prior to the migration. Lastly, execute upgrades post migrations.
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