It's Turbo Time.
November 15, 2021
It's Turbo Time.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Enterprise Edition
Overall Satisfaction with Turbonomic, an IBM Company
Turbonomic provides operational excellence providing insight into workload consumption driving cost-optimal decisions without starving compute resources required to meet application requirements. Actions are implemented through automated orchestration removing the need to tie up critical engineer hours that would otherwise be taxed with manually scaling up or down resources. Changes to workloads are automated after hours as a turnkey execution. Optimization actions are tracked to calculate ongoing ROI for justification. Turbonomic removes the need to have specialized skilled engineers review ingested metric data to develop cost optimization configurations in an ever changing fluid public cloud paradigm. Turbonomic provides and acts on designs based on actual utilization metrics and scales accordingly with cost in mind removing the second guessing as to which compute sku is most optimal cost prohibited choice. Turbonomic takes the guess work out of resource allocation.
- Right sizing recommendations based on actual utilization with historic analysis.
- Automation of recommended actions. No complex programing required.
- Clear insight into projected usage metrics post recommended change implementation.
- Lacks custom role based permissions. Only allows assigning permissions based on specific built in roles.
- Business intelligence reporting could be better. No Power BI integration.
- Grafana integration available but requires advanced experience.
- Year over year the actions taken by Turbonomic pays for itself easily justifying ROI.
- The data provided by Turobnomic helps ease concerns that would otherwise be a tipping point of contention between application or development teams.
- Turobnomic has assisted in reducing performance impacts while in some cases reducing cost. We've identified a workload performing poorly, acted on the recommendation provided by Turbo and the net cost was a reduction. Double win!
Do you think IBM Turbonomic delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with IBM Turbonomic's feature set?
Yes
Did IBM Turbonomic live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of IBM Turbonomic go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IBM Turbonomic again?
Yes
We ingest all business-critical applications into Turbonomic. Applications are either manually scaled UP or down based on utilization-based recommendations. In some instances, these recommendations are automated after review during noncritical business hours to avoid production impacts. Taking advantage of Turbonomic some workloads have been automated to auto-scale up or down without requiring an engineer to review and approve. Instead, engineers review previously taken changes that occur off-hours instead of being reactive Turbonomic helps organizations be proactive.
Productivity has increased by removing unnecessary man-hours to investigate performance impacts. Turbonomic takes the guesswork out of analysis and recommendations and removes the need to have highly skilled IT staff that would otherwise need to open support tickets or develop their own action plans.
Turbonomic has helped reduce cloud spending by ensuring that public cloud workloads are not over-provisioned. Turbonomic can ensure that on-premise workloads are not over-provisioned resulting in less physical equipment on premise avoiding the need for added hardware, warranty, and support costs.