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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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- Automation and Orchestration (6)7.979%
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- Cost Management (6)7.878%
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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 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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- Amazon Web Services
- Cisco UCS Manager
- Dynatrace
- Dell VMAX
- HPE OneView
- IBM PowerVM
- IBM Instana
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- New Relic
- Google Cloud Platform
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Monitor
- AppDynamics
- Cisco Secure Workload
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Hyper-V
- Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
- Red Hat OpenShift
- ServiceNow Now Platform
- Pure Storage FlashArray
- VMware Horizon
- VMware vCenter
- HPE 3PAR StoreServ
- NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | English |
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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
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 25% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 25% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 50% |
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February 06, 2024
Automation , resource management and performance management
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.
- Automation
- Performance Management
- VM resource Management
- better automation
- support for networking devices
80%
8.0
- Better application performance
- Better application delivery
- Better use of server resources
- Happier application end users
- Less workload for the IT team
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 Aria operations is good , we found it much more complex to use.
I would say the most notable thing is we have less instances where have to do in depth investigations in to application performance issues. This free's up the team to work on new projects and delivering new applications. The automation features are reliable and we trust them to help us manage our application servers and resources.
Yes the automation is highly trusted by our engineering team , and has freed them to work on new projects , instead of always being tied up on long and challenging troubleshooting investigations. Happier engineers , happier end users , and in turn happier managers and directors.
We save time and resources , so yes we have saved on hardware costs as before if we had a application issues , we would just throw more infrastructructure at a issue or more servers or more ram etc. But we have now insights and recommendations of what the route cause is and makes the recommended changes to configurations IBM Turbonomic suggests.
- VMware
- FreeNAS
- HPE
- Ubuntu
- Ansible
- Prometheus
- Datadog
It was not difficult to get working with , Prometheus , Datadog and VMWare V-centre and V-SAN , Amazon Web Services , and Slack and clickup by the webhooks api
We have saved on not wasting resources or setups where we have too many servers running , also we use this to sip and spin down servers on demand for payloads that are for DEV or UAT
So overall we have made cost savings as or current platforms run better for longer , the old way would just spin up more servers , but now we have insights and tooling that manages our server estate with Artificial intelligence baked in.
So overall we have made cost savings as or current platforms run better for longer , the old way would just spin up more servers , but now we have insights and tooling that manages our server estate with Artificial intelligence baked in.
We have less outages and less issues with clusters running out of resources , we have confidence of what our servers are doing and if they need more resources.
So from a IT perspective less end user complains , better use of of our IT staff resources as they anot constantly putting out fires.
So from a IT perspective less end user complains , better use of of our IT staff resources as they anot constantly putting out fires.
5
The teams that use this are dev-ops , support and IT-Infra teams
3
Server , Storage , devops , scripting , server linux , windows , vmware , monitoring , cloud aws
- optimizing applications
- reducing and using resources efficiently
- capacity forecasting and analysis
- optimize our environment
- We use Turbonomic to manage or vmotion
- monitoring the whole application as well as its allocation of resources, CPU, memory, etc ,
- The right sizing feature , helps us to size all the vms correctly
- Reporting and recommendations on capacity
No
- Cloud Solutions
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
We needed a product that is well designed and works out the box. That understands how IT instructure works and what challenges infta teams suffer with
Now we know of this product , is very unlikely we would select anything else for evaluation or POC
We did purchase premium support , as we have deployed on multiple production systems in different time zones , is super important to have always available and responsive support.
This gives us the peace of mind that any of or 24 hour support team can find the support they may need at anytime of day, without having to involve our internal IT.
This gives us the peace of mind that any of or 24 hour support team can find the support they may need at anytime of day, without having to involve our internal IT.
No
We have not logged many support cases , we have found the product is pretty stable
- Hands-Free Automation
- Capacity Management and Planning
- Kubernetes
- Reporting
- Needs initially a lot of time to tune
February 15, 2022
Nice interface - may have too many options
VMTurbo Operations Manager is being used to monitor 10 hosts and ~150 virtual machines; along with three storage architectures used as a back-end. This software is only used at my department level, and is not deployed on a large scale in my institution. VMTurbo Operations Manager is used from time to time to troubleshoot VMware infrastructure issues.
- Easy to navigate the interface.
- Easy to install.
- Constantly being updated.
- My biggest complaint is that the sales team is very pushy to make a sale and to renew software maintenance very early.
- VMTurbo Operations Manager is a useful tool to use when troubleshooting complex virtualization issues.
None.
- Vmware
It was not difficult to integrate into my VMware environment. However, we no longer use Tubonomic because we did not find the tool useful.
our group never found this tool useful. The interface as not intuitive.
No opinion.
February 12, 2022
Head to AIOps and enjoy!
Turbonomic helps with supporting application resource management and network performance data incorporating machine learning to help create a microservices architecture where AIOps is addressing the need to remove legacy applications. It's been able to allow to monitor across multiple service lines as storage and database capabilities while automating many tasks. It also supports virtual machine setup.
- Automation.
- Scaling VM's.
- Data analytics.
- Turning off some features at times may take some work, but feasible.
- More ways for targeting resources to make it more GUI-friendly.
- Reporting to be customized views (for some).
- Automation/saving time.
- Storage level forecasting option.
- Reduce MTTR.
Turbonomic has provided the ability to query out on business-critical applications and made it possible with AIOps. It's allowed us to monitor quickly, improve on the MTTR and extend this to the VM functionality. It has also allowed us to monitor data across multiple applications without any misconfiguring for the data to flow.
Yes - we could perform more data analysis and bring that towards customizable scripts which can help with automation, monitoring, and deployment. It has brought great unity between multiple teams in allowing for further collaboration. Also, Turbonomic has done this since application metrics can be compared much easier than before.
It has reduced our cloud spending and made our dependency less on the data center and more on the investment in AWS and Azure. The amount of savings is reflected based on the applications our team has been able to work through on new assignments through this capability from Turbonomic.
- Azure
- Microsoft
There is a target type and then an application-driven architecture in Azure for insights on the data almost for monitoring and utilization metrics. The integration wasn't difficult in that an Azure SQL Database Managed Instance could be created and then brought together with an SSO option in Azure and searching for Turbonomic.
It's helped for these cost savings since with the cost breakdown it is real-time costs and can be then used for scaling cloud instances accordingly in meeting the application demand. And migration planning is also part of the plan on determining which to execute and why.
It has been able to help with improving on migration to the public cloud, workload migration, and ability to add workloads easily. All of these core functions have helped to see how we can check which corresponding data regions and which VM's to use. And a place to compare with and without Turbonomic the differences.
September 19, 2017
A tool that does it all!
We are currently using VMTurbo Operations Manager to analyze resource usage and follow possible load balancing recommendations based on current and past trends. It is also being utilized to automatically vmotion servers across ESXi hosts for load balancing. It is only being used by our Infrastructure team.
- It provides comprehensive historical data.
- Great tool to vmotion VMs based on your configured specifications.
- It allows you to model possible increase or decrease of resources and see what the impact would be to your environment.
- So far I have not encountered functionality that I would need and it's not implemented.
- It allows us to quickly and efficiently identify possible problem sources.
- I helps in planning upgrades by providing trends.
It allows us to manage our virtual environment automation, monitoring and trends from one location.
- None
N/A
3
All three of them are systems administrators, supporting the day to day operations for 250 plus users, mostly infrastructure support for network, phone system, servers, storage, backups, computer imaging, security, patching, hardware and software
3
A good understanding of virtualization, specially vSphere, vcenter, vmotion and resource management in a virtual environment.
- Automatic resource balancing
- Virtual environment resource monitoring
- Virtual environment planning
- None
- Not sure.
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Analyst Reports
Product Usability is key in our purchasing decisions, we have to make sure the product does what we expect and we get the appropriate ROI, it should also allows us to work more efficiently with less available resources.
I did not evaluate this product or select this product.
- Don't know
- Not sure, the product had already been implemented when I was hired.
- Online training
- Self-taught
I would but it really depends on how people learn, some like a more hands on approach or in person guided training.
None
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
Not too bad.
None
No
We needed additional guidance when we were trying to spec out our system for a possible upgrade and they jumped on the phone with us right away to walk us through all of the analysis options available in the product, they helped us create a couple of test scenarios and followed up a couple of times after the support call to make sure everything had worked out as expected.
- Automation
- Monitoring
- Analysis
- None
- ibm storage
- dell storage
Not sure, I did not do any of the integration
- None at this time.
I don't know.
None
N/A
Not sure, I did not do the negotiation.
None.
No
- Have not done it yet.
- I have not looked at the new features or fixes from the new upgrade.
No
No
February 14, 2016
VMTurbo Review
It's nice to have VMTurbo Operations Manager; it is helping us with expanding our environment with existing unused resources.
- Suggests if resources are not being efficiently and should be reduced wherever required.
- Takes action based on defined rules rather just reporting an alert.
- Effective Reporting.
- Doing good so far, I do not have anything that I can suggest at this moment.
- Help identifying and can utilize unused resources.
It takes action rather just reporting as alert.
Information Technology.
MS Windows, Citrix, AD
- Based on the defined VM templates we were able to see the snapshot of available capacity.
- Many of the servers resources under utilized and VMTurbo could report those to revoke unused resources and increase capacity
- Reporting is the key information provider for management and give high level view resources being used.
- Before VMTurbo, no reporting of Hardware infrastructure.
- Were able to use available resources efficiently
- Can manage many options from single console.
- Optimum usage of available resources.
- Will help defining IT strategies and IT budgeting.
- Can automate action to save unused resources.
No
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
Automation of optimal resource utilization.
Test and deploy if satify IT users.
- Vendor implemented
No
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Planned change.
- Not applicable.
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
yes, as help content pretty descriptive and covers most of the contents.
Not really, but people can develop multiple template and import them for proper sizing and estimation to know how your virtualization environment is being utilized.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
It was so easy due to simple friendly user interface help contents.
Some - we have added small pieces of custom code
For ease and quick overview, reporting for senior management which give them highlight of the virtualization environment.
Not really.
No
While procuring new hardware, we did our capacity assessment and helped us to generate usage report.
- Alerts and actions
- Capacity assessments
- Reporting
- Importing templates for different profiles.
No
- VMware virtualization
Not really.
- nope.
yes
- File import/export
- Single Signon
not really.
Training
Up gradation
Up gradation
Keep contacting and reaching out techs.
Yes
yes, tech support was awesome.
- Lot of new features including multiple templates.
- Nothing really.
No
No