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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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solving for too much time spent by folks in cloud economics building business cases and implementing recommendations. We're able to …
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10 out of 10
February 08, 2023
Incentivized
Turbonomic is useful to help us manage the computational resources in our data center and I have significantly increased our VM …
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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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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.

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Reviewers rate Availability and Online Training and Configurability highest, with a score of 10.

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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Reviews

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Chris Saenz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Not really; VMTurbo touts that it does a better job than DRS and sDRS, but for us at least, without many tiers and different environments, DRS and sDRS were fine at managing VM placement and sizing.Our group that manages VMs and cloud environments is fairly small, so managing it within our team has not been extremely difficult without VMTurbo
Ben Liebowitz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are not yet using this feature. We do not allow Turbonomic to deploy the VMs for us yet. There are several decisions that go into deploying VMs in our Environment. Is it DR protected? What DR Tier? Etc. We haven't started looking into setting up Turbonomic to make decisions based on these criteria. Maybe one day, we'll use Turbonomic for this too.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a small scale company and we haven't used Turbonomic to automate or deploy. I have personally tested the same and it handled all the operations well. I would ideally use it to completely automate the environment so there are less manual tasks to worry about from the systems perspective.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It allows VMs to be moved to better performing hosts, or if required assign more memory/CPUs to VMs that are under performing. This greatly improves performance and IT staff efficiency. I also like how the can reduce memory/CPUs to VMs that have been over allocated too.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With the ability to create logical clusters for load balancing workloads we now do not have to focus as much on which physical cluster we put new virtual machines on, but instead simply place it and allow Turbonomics to move as needed.
Scott Trautwein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it strictly for automatinig vmotion tasks to enable a balanced set of memory and CPU resources across our hosts. Once the parameters are set we are able to just let it work on its own, no further action is required. Also, we occasionally get into its reporting functions to verify certain vms have the resources they require.
Manish Goyal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Definitely yes Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo) has changed the way you manage virtual and cloud environments as many of the robust tasks are being taken care by Turbonomic so IT staff can be utilized for an upper-level productive approach which can speed up customer requests coming in.
René van den Bedem | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Turbonomic should be used as a control and automation platform; just using the monitoring feature is really a waste of investment. Generally, customers should use the vMotion and Storage vMotion functionality for test and development clusters and as they gain confidence, use this in production infrastructure as well. After that, customers can start investigating the advanced use of the Policy engine to solve business and technical problems.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It has certainly changed the manual processes and allows us to be confident that any adjustments and provisioning decisions do not need to be micromanaged and can happen now in the background with minimal or no supervision. That in turn allows us to focus on production rather than support.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We haven't deployed full automation due to restrictions on boundaries, but a hybrid case of manual review of suggestions made by turbonomics before implementing. since it is a relatively small environment, its provides us still the direct insight without causing us to spend too much time on it.
Ken Wilkey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In the past we relied on VMware DRS to make all performance related decisions as it related to the ESXi hosts. As our environments and workloads became more and more complex - we realized that we needed a tool to help us better understand where our hot spots were. With the analytical data Turbonomic provides, we are now able to scale both horizontally and vertically without jeopardizing the availability and uptime of our platforms.
Thomas Green | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have utilized the automation functionality before, but are not currently using it. We're basically control freaks, so we look at the recommendations that Turbonomic makes, and decide whether or not to apply them. If we do apply them (which is what happens most of the time), then we apply the change from within the Turbonomic interface.
Sean Frazier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At first, we used Turbonomic's automated placement feature and we allowed it to move VMs around at its discretion. We ended up disabling it at most sites because it was violating policies that we had in place to prevent problems. As far as automated provision and sizing, we have not used these features.
Ariel Dupar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We didn't have information about our virtual infrastructure, to optimize the environment. Rather, we consistently bought a lot of servers to solve application performances issues.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Overall I found the ease of use and fanatical support for this product refreshing in the me-too virtual systems management space. This company is doing many of the more important things you get with VROPS better than VMWare. I find they are very responsive in helping us with any issues as well as enabling us to become more proactive with less manpower.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have come to rely on VMturbo heavily in these past years, we aren't actually sure what we'd do without it at this point. We have changed how we ourselves manage it all. As instead of spending hundreds of hours monitoring and moving and changing things ourselves, we instead log in to VMturbo to make sure it's still working as we intend it to do, 5% of the effort of doing all this manually.
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