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    IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AIBM Z® IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS® is a performance analysis solution that helps organizations monitor and optimize their mainframe environments. It enhances RMF and SMF data with built-in expertise to prevent disruptions, improve performance, and safeguard service availability. Key Features: Proactive Monitoring: Early warning system that identifies risks before they impact operations. Enhanced Performance: Fine-tunes configurations…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 Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OSIBM 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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    IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OSIBM Turbonomic
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsVolume discounting available.
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    IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OSIBM Turbonomic
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    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OSIBM Turbonomic
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS and IBM Turbonomic
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    IBM Turbonomic
    6.8
    6 Ratings
    24% 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 Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OSIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (16 ratings)
    7.8
    (138 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    9.8
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    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
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    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
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    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    In-Person Training
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
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    10.0
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    Implementation Rating
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    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    Configurability
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    10.0
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    9.1
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    Ease of integration
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    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
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    10.0
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    Professional Services
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    10.0
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.9
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OSIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is perfect for just about any after-the-fact analysis that I have tried to use it for. Sometimes it doesn't provide support for the latest SMF fields, but that is the nature of SMF data analysis - it is impossible to keep up with the rate at which new SMF fields are added. Combine that with the fact that the description of new fields is often poor, and it is amazing that IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is as up-to-date as it is. I think that less experienced users might benefit from material that more clearly differentiates products like IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, which feed off SMF data, and products like Omegamon, which report in real-time contents of various system control blocks.
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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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    • IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is easy to use for beginners and experts.
    • Search and drill down helps to find overview and deep dive.
    • IntelliMagic has implemented expert knowledge into Vision and the rating of the report is really helpful.
    • Predefined reports can be modified very easily and individually adapted reports (replacement of old SAS programs) are also possible without any problems
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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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    • The voluminous data is a challenge for all tools. As always, improved response time is always appreciated.
    • I really appreciate reading the descriptions and field descriptions that are provided with the screens. All additional elaborations will be appreciated.
    • Monthly trending and cyclical pattern detection
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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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    In comparison to other products (even on IBM Z), IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is really RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability). The GUI is really stable; analyze/reduce jobs with detailed diagnostics; restart functions with Automator
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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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    with more than 12 years of experience in Mainframe performance tuning and analysis, it was much easier to translate and understand the tool. New college grads without Mainframe exposure struggled a bit to connect the dots, it might be good to have a recording from IM to go through mainframe basics before the staff start to use the tool covering mainframe concepts than tool itself.
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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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    Really highly skilled IntelliMagic team:
    • Head of IntelliMagic (Gilbert Houtekamer, Els Das and Jean-Marc van der Kolk)
    • Account manager DACH/Europe local support team ...
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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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    These are the legacy products that have been used for capacity/performance/billing and report generation over many years. Some are better suited for solutions using programmatic interfaces ( internal billing ), and processing IMS transactional data in particular. For most tasks, however, Vision can generate charts, provide levels of drill-down, allow a focus on analysis rather than report generation, much faster with greater reliability and less required training than the above products
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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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    Scalability
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    IBM
    It’s very scalable.
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    Professional Services
    IntelliMagic, 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
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    • Based on data from Vision, we have not had to expand the hardware this year.
    • Any expansion of hardware in the coming years can be well supported by figures from Vision.
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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 Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Screenshots

    Screenshot of where IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS evaluates CICS metrics against best practices to highlight availability risks. Results are shown in red, yellow, and green, with detailed views by group, region, or time charts.Screenshot of an automated analysis of 80+ metrics for Db2 members and buffer pools, which detects availability and performance risks. The interactive report highlights warnings and exceptions, with drill-down capabilities for root cause analysis.Screenshot of a time chart for metrics. These are used to explore potential relationships during analysis. For example, assess time-of-day correlations between metrics with exceptions (orange/red borders) and overall get-page activity.Screenshot of where to filter network traffic by class or IP range to analyze protocol-specific data, including encryption algorithms, key lengths, and cryptographic attributes.Screenshot of analysis of transaction rates alongside response times to identify issues or track workload trends. Viewers can break down response times into components like System of Record (SOR) time, with adjustable data granularity.Screenshot of visual charts and dashboards, these showing CPU usage and transaction rates of WebSphere application workloads over time, enabling clearer communication and informed planning.

    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.