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    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 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 Turbonomic
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
    Additional DetailsVolume discounting available.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Turbonomic
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    IBM
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    Resource management with openshift and turbonomic forms an ideal set for observing problems and correctly dimensioning the environment

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    Simpler. IBM Turbonomic is more efficient and simpler to use.
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    I think IBM Turbonomic is much much better than Datadog. Both in terms of functionality and capabilities. AI driven resource allocation is the standout feature.
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    We already had the Turbonomic license acquired.
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    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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    I chose IBM Turbonomic because it is a good tool that integrates any CSP and on-premises solutions. It also helps with difficult tasks related to ARM issues.
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    We found that that the support we had from IBM and 3rd party vender on IBM Turbonomic was superb , and was one of deciding factors of why we choose IBM Turbonomic. We like a lot of the automation features , and how it helps our engineers work smarter. Even though the VM ware A…
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    Turbonomic is class apart compared to the others. It helps you achieve what is not possible with the other solutions. Turbonomic can work in an auto-mode and keep delivering savings and business performance. No other product comes even close.
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    I selected IBM Turbonomic because it is a comprehensive tool that can help me monitor and optimize the entire IT environment. The choice of IBM Turbonomic is often driven by its extensive feature set, scalability, and delivering tangible results. IBM Turbonomic stands out in …
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    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 …
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    Application awareness is the key success criteria of IBM Turbonomic when the comparison came on the table. To be aware of the application performance and nature when monitoring or analyzing the components and resources of the applications is the key differentiation of the IBM …
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    IBM Turbonomic is still trying the pick the pace and against the other products in the market. It is equivalent to SolarWinds, LogicMonitor and some part of AppDynamics but far behind SPLUNK Enterpsie and ServiceNow Now Platform due to the fact that they offer open wide …
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    IBM Turbonomic has grown to a respectable level now in the market and after associating with IBM its value has been increased in terms of trust and results. From technical point of view this is a potential solution and provide almost all similar features like its competitors. …
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    Turbonomic blew the doors off the competition. When we did a comparison to our current application that was monitoring our environment, Turbonomic surpassed them with flying colors at the start during the POC. Then during the POC white we were kicking the tires around the …
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    I like Turbonomic it helps us to ensure our applications get the resources they need to perform. With a complete understanding of the application and infrastructure stack, we are able to automate actions and prevent resource congestion across a hybrid cloud environment.
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    We tried the vRealize Suite but found it complicated and not very intuitive for first-time users. Meaning we could log into Turbonomic and click around to figure out what we needed, whereas vRealize was not as user-friendly in its UI. Ultimately that was why we choose to go …
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    We liked Turbonomic as it could work in the container space and the VM space. Other products were too one-dimensional. Additionally, the algorithm in Turbonomic is not typical. Turbonomic does not take the standard data elements and map them to consumption. Their use of a …
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    Turbonomic was recommended by one of our vendors to help handle and manage costs. We have not used any other company.
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    IBM Cloud Availability Monitoring is a very basic monitoring tool. As the name suggests, it only monitors the availability of your systems. While it is a good tool to get started with, it lacks many advanced features available with other solutions such as New Relic, which you …
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    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    The only comparable alternative has been DRS and sDRS which are native to vCenter. These tools have had to suffice for managing resources and placement. Thusfar, they have been working for us well. Although there is some manual work and reliance on monitoring tools to ensure …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    33 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Turbonomic
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    IBM Turbonomic
    6.7
    6 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Cloud Management Security6.25 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration6.25 Ratings
    Cost Management7.96 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring7.26 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance6.86 Ratings
    Resource Management7.35 Ratings
    Systems Integration5.65 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (138 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    IBM
    VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.
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    Performance
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    IBM
    It’s very scalable.
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    Professional Services
    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
    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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    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.