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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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Turboreffic!

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 27, 2024
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We currently use the Park My Cloud portion in IBM Turbonomic, and it saves us tremendous time and an amazing overall cost savings every month. This is a great feature and our ...
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Administrator
IBM Turbonomic5 years of experience

Turbonomics obs.

Rating: 5 out of 10
August 22, 2024
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We leveraged Turbonomics to proactively identify and address potential resource issues within our OpenShift cluster. By analyzing the insights provided, we aimed to implement ...
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Manager
IBM Turbonomic2 years of experience

Easily manage your virtual machines and kubernetes and reduce overall cost

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 31, 2024
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Lenora Blick
Analyst - Research & Development
Programmer Analyst
10Pearls
IBM Turbonomic4 years of experience

Useful Cloud Management tool

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 30, 2024
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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 ...
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Engineer
IBM Turbonomic2 years of experience

My experience with IBM Turbonomic

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 20, 2024
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My use of the IBM Turbonomic is directioning for a development product and service that will be sell by my company.
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Regis Machado Model
Professional - Product Management
Product Manager
Oi S/A
IBM Turbonomic1 year of experience

IBM Turbonomic will give your institution that extra boost you never new existed

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 20, 2024
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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 a...
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Administrator
IBM Turbonomic1 year of experience

Automation , resource management and performance management

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 6, 2024
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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 smal...
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Engineer
IBM Turbonomic10 years of experience

Optimum performance with cloud workloads, Turbonomic executes all actions to maintain control.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 17, 2023
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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, notab...
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Project Manager
IBM Turbonomic3 years of experience

Save time and money needed with this excellent tool, for better economic fluidity.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 14, 2023
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Cloud management is guaranteed with this tool. IBM Turbonomic delivers efficient performance with each application in service while continuously releasing any defects that may...
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Team Lead
IBM Turbonomic3 years of experience

Good experience

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 8, 2023
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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 rig...
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Consultant
IBM Turbonomic1 year of experience

Cloud pricing and performance can be optimized in real time.

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 6, 2023
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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 differe...
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Malia Klein
Project Manager - Information Technology
Senior Software Engineer
Trinetix
IBM Turbonomic3 years of experience

Optimize your cloud costs and performance on the fly

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 27, 2023
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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 t...
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MEI KAM WONG
C-Level Executive - Information Technology
CIO (Chief Information Officer)
Ivory Education Private Limited
IBM Turbonomic2 years of experience

Turbonomic, an IBM Company, solution for IT optimization

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 26, 2023
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IBM Turbonomic as an invaluable educational and assessment platform. It serves as a comprehensive solution for conducting labs, executing solution demos, and addressing crit...
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Andrew Starodubtsev
Engineer - Information Technology
DevOps engineer
Individual contribitor
IBM Turbonomic1 year of experience

An excellent means to manage resources for our virtual setup.

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 26, 2023
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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 ...
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Manager
IBM Turbonomic2 years of experience

Tool of excellence for the administration of resources in the cloud or any backup source.

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 20, 2023
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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, ...
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Kenzie Cranston Lee
Engineer - Engineering
Technical Support Engineer
GE
IBM Turbonomic3 years of experience
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How IBM Turbonomic Differs From Its Competitors

Staff Productivity and Collaboration

It has helped overall productivity by not having myself to constantly turn on and off environments that are globally and it has stopped the users from leaving the environment on 24/7 and incurring unwanted costs by having the ability to only allow users to set up the schedule to run for only 9 …
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Efficiency

Our cloud spending is, on average, anywhere from 6k to 8k per month in savings. We can sometimes get more depending on the circumstance and users needs.
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Efficiency

Thanks to detecting over-provisioning in the VMs, we were able to reduce the cost of computing and storage infrastructure by 5%. This discovery allowed us to consolidate several applications into a single VM, whereas previously, there was one VM per application. This application reorganization …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

Before we moved to IBM Turbonomic, we had to spend a lot of time to integrate our system with 3rd party programs but since we started using IBM Turbonomic, the integration process has become a lot more simpler. So now our IT staff has become more productive as they don't need to waste their time …
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Efficiency

IBM Turbonomic has helped us reduce our overall cost by almost thirty percent. As now we can manage our virtual machine and kubernetes with turbonomic, so if any virtual machine or kubernetes is free and not being used, we can easily close it which helps us cut cost.
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Application Development & Performance

Yes, we've been able to allocate our resources better to develop applications than to manage infrastructure. As with any AI/ML project, we conduct several experiments and build models which have to be back tested against large datasets. Managing infrastructure took over 50% of the projects time. …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

We've combined our application and operations team as one DevOps team and it has helped us reduce costs, specially in high cost locations. We are spending less time managing infrastructure and have been able to experiment better specially during initial data modelling and engineering phase where …
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Efficiency

We've reduced our cloud spend by over 25% and review our costs monthly at a senior level. We've been able to setup rules to automate the release or underutilized resources and build management reports to review usage.
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Application Development & Performance

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 …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

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.
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Efficiency

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 …
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Cost Savings

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 …
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Customer Experience

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.
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Application Development & Performance

Its search and analysis engine in high volume and flow work environments shows significant performance in results based on metrics of storage capacity and CPU and includes a bug search engine to monitor the overall performance of the entire company without directly affecting departmental work with …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

Our work infrastructure was at risk for some years, and there was no software to help integrate monitoring and security tools as Turbonomic does; the IT team can involve different parameters to comply with technological and informational development in all enterprise environments that can handle …
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Efficiency

The control of expenses in purchasing infrastructure is impressive, and also in more capacity in hybrid cloud environments; Turbonomic is software very capable of meeting the performance of infrastructure and cloud, I do not handle the financial numbers of the company's budget and expenses, but I …
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Application Development & Performance

If you've managed to drive the overall growth of the entire work environment with IBM technology from Turbonomic, of course it's also integrated with other IBM software already in place; it all helps when business processes need to be generally in a 60% manual, now with IBM Turbonomic, we know …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

The workload on the IT team is reduced by around 80% in cases of hybrid work infrastructure for our cloud environment, and in our teams, visualizing existing resources is also another important factor of this software and I consider that for the IT team is some of the best software they are using …
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Efficiency

I am not in charge of the financial expenses in the cloud, infrastructure, or in any other aspect of the acquisition of software for the work in the departments, but according to the satisfaction of the IT team, if the expenses have been reduced, but I do not handle the numbers exact details of …
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Application Development & Performance

implementing automated recommendations for raising or lowering compute, storage EBS, EKS, RDS
Turbonomics rightsizing lets app developers do more development rather than playing guessing games - which contribute to compute waste and the wrong size slows down agile development
Turbo can do more …
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Application Development & Performance

Our staff has been able to manage our day to day operation with ease thanks to the application resource management.
And the fact that we have been successful time and time again is making us very content. Also the integrated capacty reporting functions also helped us fine tune our apps and cut …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

There are times when it's hard to find performance issues. IBM Turbonomic makes it simple to see records of work. As a result, the application and infrastructure teams can work together more easily because they have a more complete picture of the IT environment. Also the IT team doesn't have to …
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Efficiency

Automated platform corrective methods prevent and fix issues before they cause damage. This ensures that applications are available and run well without costly additional infrastructure and increasing productivity. Thus, we could begin a huge project and application deployment that had been …
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Application Development & Performance

IBM Turbonomic has been instrumental in driving remarkable improvements in the performance and availability of our business-critical applications. By intelligently optimizing resource allocations based on workload demands, Turbonomic ensures that the right resources are allocated to meet …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

By providing a single, unified view of the IT environment, automated resource allocation and actionable insights and recommendations, IBM Turbonomic enables application and infrastructure teams to work together more effectively and efficiently, leading to improved collaboration and productivity, …
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Efficiency

By dynamically allocating resources based on the needs of each workload, IBM Turbonomic reduces resource wastage and improves resource utilization, which in turn can result in a significant reduction in cloud spend. The platform provides automated remediation actions that can prevent and resolve …
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Efficiency

Yes, positive returns on purchase anf acquisition cost has been observed due to reduction in cost of total output.
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Application Development & Performance

This interface allows the regulated automation of operations for the distribution of IT services where necessary and desired by the programs. This streamlines the functioning of the whole integrated solution in timely manner, with optimal utilization of resources.
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Efficiency

IBM Turbonomic has helped us save money on our IT infrastructure. It gave us an excellent notion of where we should actually spend and where we should drastically cut. The automated system can keep of all resource activities, provides trustworthy data, and gives us with a high-level perspective of …
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Efficiency

IBM Turbonomic has reduced the overall cost of our IT infrastructure. It offered us a good idea of where to spend money and where to cut back. The automated system monitors all resource workflows, generates reliable analysis, and provides us with an overview of our system flow.
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Application Development & Performance

Indeed IBM Turbonomic has enabled our organization to achieve faster time to market. The AI powered insights provided by the application has greatly supported us to make instant decisions which has provided a good return to us. The product is very smooth and can handle a big workload at once. It …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

Yes. Our own IT Team performances has gone up since they are working on very accurate insights provided by IBM Turbonomic. They are very confident to execute specific actions as the information is on point. As a user, I see the performance of IBM Turbonomic on a weekly basis and it is very clear …
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Efficiency

I am aware that the Infrastructure costs and data centre refresh costs has gone down from significant amounts. But I am unable to provide exact numbers as I do not have access to such information. But the decision to continue using IBM Turbonomic was made due to these cost savings as a one reason …
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Application Development & Performance

For sure, In a large scale and very complex applications management requires another vertical of the application resource management in todays IT worlds. Crossing the chasm with IBM Turbonomic accelerate the sustainable business of the complex Enterprise. Day to day operations, application and …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

Different mindset and Information Technology approach of the infrastructure teams and application developer teams are totally different. IBM Turbonomic brings together of that teams to use better application resources for the right application performance management. Infrastructure up and …
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Efficiency

continuous monitoring of the public cloud workloads and the resources utilization make possible to produce detailed utilization and optimization report for the public cloud observer. Hidden costs and right public cloud resources for the right applications minimize public cloud usage in a fast way. …
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Application Development & Performance

IBM Turbonomic has provided combined visibility into the applications for its performance or availability (specially business critical apps) and the dependent infrastructure, however still there are areas of improvement such as advance correlation among infra and apps (specially network components …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

Monitoring and Support staff has been benefited the most after the Application Deveopers since now they have visibility into the performance of their apps quickly with root cause findings. However impact on the larger staff such as management, infras support team is not that great due to the fact …
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Efficiency

IBM Turbonomic has reduced the following -

1. Cost on Infrastructure.
2. Cost on Databases.
3. Cost on Operating Systems.
4. Cost on Maintaining Infra, Database, storage, backup etc.

Before cloud version and other products we had a bad experience with expanding database as the monitoring scope …
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Application Development & Performance

Ofcourse, IBM Turbonomic has not only provided visibility into the Application Performance or their availability but also insights about related databases, servers, micro services, 3rd party dependent nodes etc. Due to its unified dashboard and events correlation capability our support teams are …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

Unifying Infrastructure and Applications team is still a challenge for many IT organizations and Business Companies due to the fact that both the teams have different goals. However the gap of visibility between application and infrastrcuture fault has been reduced to some extent as IBM Turbonomic …
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Efficiency

If I talk about in terms of Dollars then there is no major difference because even when we have now less dependency on physical DC or their infrastructure but still we need skilled resources to manage the applications, like architects, developers and admins. But the headache we had previously to …
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Application Development & Performance

Yes, it has an impact on application development because it helps to avoid over-interaction with service calls that you already know are troubled with peaks of demand. Also, it helps to demonstrate that many of the problems are bad database design with poor indexes. Because all the infrastructure …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

The complexity of the applications that use several resources like distinct databases and API calls to external servers does impossible the task of manual research of the cause of problems. The IT staff needs an Application Monitoring like IBM Turbonomic to respond to what is happening when the …
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Efficiency

You need to justify the purchase of infrastructure in the Cloud on Premises based on data and statistics. The traditional approach is just to increase the memory size of the servers until the performance problem disappears. But the situation could reach a point where more physical resources are …
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Application Development & Performance

Turbonomic has improved application performance for the business and all users/customers. Turbonomic keeps us running at optimal performance which allows us to better serve our end-users in the company; which then better serves our customers. Turbonomic helps limit the slowness that can be …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

IT staff productivity has been increased. The ability of Turbonomic making changes on it's own improved the response time to an issue (especially after hours). This allows IT staff to focus on other items/projects. Many times we see items after they have already been fixed. We can see what changes …
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Efficiency

Yes by uniting applications and infrastructure teams where we gain a common understanding of how infrastructure impacts performance and bridge the gap between application and infrastructure teams.
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Application Development & Performance

Having the vital apps registering high performance is of much importance to us, and so with IBM Turbonomic we can properly identify faulty machines from the monitor and fix the issues (saves us some good money on deployments in the long run). It has provided us with critical insights on resource …
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Staff Productivity and Collaboration

Our IT staff productivity has improved and by really great margins. This has been through the automation of processes and automatic performance analyses. We on the other hand just work on fixing faulty deployments and pick insights from performance reports. IBM Turbonomic fills the gap between …
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Efficiency

As I have mentioned before we are saving a good amount of money from cloud expenses and virtual infrastructure costs. It's even more economical since we were using the IBM cloud suite already. By factoring out all possible server management issues, we cut down the average costs per server by good …
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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

Varies - Request a Quote

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

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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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

7.2
Avg 8.6
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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

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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

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Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Turbonomic starts at $3333.

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Reviewers rate Cost Management highest, with a score of 7.5.

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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