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    IBM Cloudability

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloudability is a cloud cost management and optimization tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their costs and communicate the business value of the cloud.N/A

    IBM Turbonomic

    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    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. One of the key features of IBM Turbonomic is its ability to continuously adjust application resources in real time. By monitoring resource utilization and application performance,…N/A
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    IBM CloudabilityIBM Turbonomic
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    IBM® Turbonomic On-Prem
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    per month IBM Turbonomic On-prem optimizes data center resources in real time, ensuring app performance at the lowest cost by aligning infrastructure supply with dynamic application demand.
    IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Standard
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    per month For customers with more than USD 1.6 million in annual cloud spend or 50 Managed Virtual Servers (MVS) or greater
    IBM® Turbonomic Hybrid Standard
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    per month Advanced hybrid cloud optimization capabilities for customers with 200 managed virtual servers (MVS) or more
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM CloudabilityIBM Turbonomic
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Volume discounting available.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM CloudabilityIBM Turbonomic
    Considered Both Products
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Cloudability has excellent reporting capabilities
    Turbonomic has an excellent recommendation engine that allows you to take action from the portal and even set policy and automation of tasks
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    Chose IBM Cloudability
    I believe that one complements the other, and it was great that Apptio brought them together on the same front.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Turbonomics appears to deliver capabilities in the automation and performance in the cloud.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    When compared to other tools for multi-cloud cost management, Cloudability is more streamlined and customizable.
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    IBM
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    IBM Turbonomic supports multi cloud deployments and work well with other IBM cloud/web tools we use within our organization.
    While there is an initial learning curve, over long period of time it pays off once the cost benefits are realized from the efficiency gains. Given the …
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    95%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    95%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    91%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM CloudabilityIBM Turbonomic
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of IBM Cloudability and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    IBM Cloudability
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Turbonomic
    6.7
    6 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings6.25 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings6.25 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings7.96 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings6.86 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings5.65 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM CloudabilityIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (110 ratings)
    7.8
    (138 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (110 ratings)
    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM CloudabilityIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Good tool to start FinOps journey in a medium sized (or above) company. Currently missing AI capabilities that are now available with a lot of FinOps vendors in the market. Also, apptio currently does not have FOCUS dataset nomenclature, that can be worked upon.
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    IBM
    Measure the usage of resources across different platforms, from Kubernetes to VMs on-premises or in the cloud, to obtain current capacity metrics and plan for future scenarios. Reduce IT infrastructure costs by taking automated actions based on resource underutilization, such as shutting down VMs or changing resource definitions.
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    Pros
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • It shows the visibility into the cost and a single pane of glass for all of our cloud providers, multiple products in those multi-cloud. So it shows us our spending across the cloud by vendor, by product, and by all the tags that we have in the cloud. So it gives us visibility into many different directions in our cost.
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    IBM
    • Presentation is nice. Its easy to understand what your looking at and the data that is being presented to you.
    • Properly identify resource utilization and recommendations for action on how VMs can be improved and resources can be better utilized.
    • It was also able to tell us the same information and analysis for cloud resources. I was not expecting that.
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    Cons
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • There is currently no ability to apply global filters over the data in cloudability. Rather users must go through a difficult process to create custom views which they are later able to apply over top of their datasets.
    • Drill functionality does not really exists but appears to be more of an after though add-on. Yes you are able to "drill" but the visuals disappear and even the ability to export the more detailed information.
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    IBM
    • It would be nice if the UI included a break-down of features that are both licensed as well as un-licensed. That way, you could not only see what you have, but what you don't.
    • The right-sizing recommendations are great, but very little info is given about why the recommendation is being made. More info would not only increase understanding, but would also help drive decision-making.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apptio an IBM Company
    We decided to build our own home-grown FinOps tool, but the results of the proof of concept were very promising.
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    IBM
    We are certainly happy with Turbonomic as a whole and have invested quite a bit of time and effort into learning the ins and outs of the product. We have our reporting setup the way we want it and have gained definite value from these features. I will say though that many products nowadays are offering more native monitoring, reporting, and alerting features which may eventually steer us away from this product
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    Usability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I gave the IBM Cloudability a 7/10 because it is good, but it could improve in some places. It is easy to get data uploaded and ready to view, but it is only up to a certain point in time, and not live data. As for how it looks, the interface is good for viewing, however navigation could be a little better, maybe supported with a roadmap.
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    IBM
    Excellent approach to larger VM organizational management. They have an very clean integrated dashboard that allows us to see everything in our environment and what that is doing in real-time. It works on multiple hyper-visors really well and integrates capacity planning on my local site as well as my cloud locations.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years
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    IBM
    VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.
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    Performance
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume
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    IBM
    It allocates resources among applications by showing more on the cost breakdown by cloud service, with metrics on cloud provider information like Azure Management, Identity, Networking, Storage with costs per day, and total services costs. This then could facilitate and show the corresponding actions thereafter upon scaling.
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    Support Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    While there have been few support cases where the experience was good. But in multiple support cases it's firstly delayed and even after weeks or months of time, team is not able to provide us with the RCA of the issue. All they are claiming is the issue is now fixed which I still see coming back after few days or weeks as we've never identified and addressed the root cause.
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    IBM
    When I contact support I get a quick response and they are able to solve my problem quickly. I also get a sense that they want to make sure that we are getting value from the product and walk me through whatever steps are needed to accomplish my goals.
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    In-Person Training
    Apptio an IBM Company
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Alex (from VMTurbo) has worked with the product for years and helped develop the product. He was very knowledgeable and was able to provide our support team with details knowledge on how to get our deployment configured correctly as well as help with another VMTurbo POC within another customers environment.
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    Online Training
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Training was adequate, but the real learning begins when you start using the product, like most things. All major functions were covered so as an entry point, was a good introduction to the product. The training pace was good as well, the areas were covered in decent depth, without being too much of an information overload.
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    IBM
    After buying VMTurbo Operations Manager, I was invited to an online user training event. I felt this training was effective and dug just deep enough to be informative yet still keep my attention. Additionally, the webinar was free.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Within months
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    IBM
    The implementation was very simple. Just upload an OVA file and power on the VM. Once it comes up enter some networking information and you can then access the web interface. From there, just begin configuring the system for your environment by adding you license and the various virtual environments and storage through the inventory tab
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Before Apptio we extensively used the cloud native and in house automated and developed cost optimization tool using python , powershell and leveraging the various cloud native services like AWS systems manager , Azure Functions and Azure automation run books.
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    IBM
    As the organization had experience of years in using IBM products, we had the confidence that they will provide us with great support. And we needed a reliable solution as a financial institute to ensure continuous operations. Even though the price was very high, we made the correct decision to go ahead with IBM Turbonomic as the feedback from existing users in the region was very positive. We needed a solution which was capable of handling our automation requirements. All these were green in IBM Turbonomic.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I wasn't personally involved, but all dealings with Apptio have been easy
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    IBM
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    Scalability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Works as designed
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    IBM
    It’s very scalable.
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    Professional Services
    Apptio an IBM Company
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    IBM
    Professional services were always there to guide us in our transformation to the cloud. They understood our business model and then were able to provide guidance on what we needed from the tool.
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    Return on Investment
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Positive - as our utilization of Cloud platforms has increased, getting better reporting has been a key objective and Cloudability has allowed us to achieve this.
    • Positive - has allowed us to find opportunities for Cloud savings and improve our utilization of Cloud resources.
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    IBM
    • Application performance has been a big one. With Turbonomic keeping everything running at top performance, it can make changes when extra resources are need, quicker than somebody being notified and then making the necessary changes.
    • Turbonomic has been a great cost savings for us on multiple occasions. We use it every time we are improving servers.
    • With the planning feature we get the best performance form new hardware purchases
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    ScreenShots

    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 On-prem Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.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 view 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.