IBM Turbonomic
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about IBM Turbonomic is that it helps keep our applications running smoothly without needing a lot of manual work. It automatically adjusts resources like memory and CPU, so we don’t have to constantly monitor or fine-tune things. This not only saves us time but also helps avoid performance issues before they happen. It works well across different environments—whether it's in the cloud or on-prem—and gives helpful suggestions that are easy to understand and follow. Overall, it makes managing our systems much easier and more efficient.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can take a little time to learn how to use it, especially in the beginning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM Turbonomic helps solve the problem of managing resources across cloud and on-prem environments. It automatically makes sure that apps have the right amount of CPU, memory, and storage to perform well. This means we don’t have to guess or over-provision resources, which saves money and avoids slowdowns.
Super product in the market
What do you like best about the product?
The overall feel the user experience that is provided the ease of use and the way it makes the work effecient
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing in specific i felt i disliked maybe it could be little more of a simple application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it's solved the problem of detecting the issue and which is easy now.
IBM Turbonomic features
What do you like best about the product?
Turbonomic continuous monitor and analyzes resource. The plateform AI and machine learning to automatically recommended and execute actions. This plateform focuses on ensuring optimal performance for applications. Overall IBM Turbonomic is a valuable tool for any organisation looking to improve the performance, efficiency and cost effectiveness of their IT infrastructure
What do you dislike about the product?
Requires a significant initial investment in time and effort
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It automatically identifies and rectifies resources. Reduce cloude spending and lower hardware costs
Highly efficient to save resources
What do you like best about the product?
IBM Turbonomic helps save us tons of cloud resources using its AI technology. It helps us in reduced costs.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's quite complex to set up for a small project. Not suitable to small solutions/products that are intended for a small group of users otherwise it may be expensive and not worth it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM Turbonomic uses AI tools and help monitor cloud resources in a much better way helping manage computes and cost cutting. It helps us very much in cost cutting.
Great Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Cost Optimization: Reduces cloud expenditures by eliminating over-provisioning and automating resource allocation.
Improved Application Performance: Ensures applications always have the resources they need to perform optimally.
What do you dislike about the product?
Complexity: Turbonomic can be a complex platform to set up and manage, especially for organizations with limited IT resources.
Cost: The software itself can be expensive, and there may be additional ongoing costs for implementation and maintenance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuously automating resource allocation in real-time, eliminating the need for manual intervention
Very beneficial to optimize performance and cost
What do you like best about the product?
The most effective and efficient use of resources to your application at every layer of the stack. It is very useful in saving time and money .
What do you dislike about the product?
Challenges of selecting best practices for hosting your application on cloud.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cost effective toove your applications to cloud.
Turbonomic is not a monitoring tool, it is an automation tool.
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Turbonomic is the ease of configuring the necessary automations for our environment. This makes the work much easier, bringing labor savings and agility to the processes.
What do you dislike about the product?
I see no disadvantage in Turbonomic. The disadvantage, in fact, is not using all the functions that the tool offers you.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Turbonomic is showing the savings we can make in the infrastructure, as well as helping in troubleshooting various problems and errors in applications. It can show the entire application path and where there is a bottleneck, for example, which facilitates a quicker solution in a crisis moment.
right tool for the job
What do you like best about the product?
This tool is very helpful when you have a mixed virtual environment. IE fast/slow storage, different clock speed CPUs.
What do you dislike about the product?
For my use case we had all flash storage, and all the same CPU. We had to maintain specific settings as most of our virtual machines are considered medical devices. It would be nice to say these virtual machines will always keep these resources, so ignore them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Know when to add more resources to the underlying infrastructure for our environment.
Best tool in the market for cloud cost optimization
What do you like best about the product?
Single pane view for all the cloud, showing cost variances and opportunities
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost and some improvements for on-prem infrastructure
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Over cloud cost increased faster than our landscape hence it was necessary to optimize the cost and opportunty for cost savings without impacting the business operatons. IBM Turbonomic was able to solve it and wasa able to deploy the solution in minium time.
Helps visibility, bridges the data gap, and frees up time
What is our primary use case?
We leverage IBM Turbonomic to manage our 28 on-premises data centers, effectively optimizing resources and ensuring their operational efficiency. It helps us automate workload scaling to guarantee consistent application performance. Additionally, while we primarily use Turbonomic for on-premises management, we also utilize it within our AWS environment for cost optimization purposes. This allows us to identify and implement cost-saving measures within the cloud.
One of our key challenges was finding a tool that could provide a holistic view of our entire environment and report back key data points, such as CPU and memory usage. This would allow us to identify potential areas for cost savings. We were frequently receiving requests to increase resources like memory and CPU, so we needed a tool that not only gave us historical data but also empowered us to take action, whether that meant automating changes or manually making the changes and IBM Turbonomic does that.
How has it helped my organization?
We use IBM Turbonomic in a hybrid cloud environment. Although it supports multi-cloud capabilities, we currently operate in a single-cloud setting.
Turbonomic offers visibility into our environment's performance, spanning across applications, underlying infrastructure, and protection resources.
The visibility and analytics help to bridge the data gap between disparate IT teams such as applications and infrastructure. This is important for awareness collaboration, cost saving, and helping to design and improve our application.
Enhanced visibility and data analytics have contributed to a significant reduction in our mean time to resolve. Tools like Turbonomic provide crucial visualization and insights, empowering us to make data-driven decisions instead of relying on assumptions as we did before. This newfound transparency translates to a massive improvement, going from complete darkness to having a clear 100 percent view of the situation.
Although our applications are not optimized for the cloud we have seen some improvement in response time.
IBM Turbonomic empowers us to achieve more with fewer people thanks to automation. Previously, customers frequently contacted us requesting resource increases to resolve issues. Now, we have a tool that allows us to objectively assess their needs, leading to a deeper understanding of our applications. This solution also generates significant cost savings in the cloud and optimizes hardware utilization within our data centers. Its AI algorithm intelligently allocates servers on hosts, maximizing efficiency without compromising performance. By fine-tuning resource allocation without causing performance bottlenecks, Turbonomic extends the lifespan of existing hardware, postponing the need for new purchases. This effectively stretches our capital expenditure budget. We started to see the benefits of IBM Turbonomic within the first 60 days.
IBM is a fantastic partner. Their tech support has been outstanding, and the product itself is excellent - a very solid offering.
By automating resource management with Turbonomic, our engineers are freed up to focus on more strategic initiatives like innovation and ongoing organizational projects. Previously, manually adding resources was a time-consuming process that interrupted workflows. Now, automation handles scaling efficiently, saving us thousands of man-hours and significant costs.
It has illuminated the need for SetOps. It has highlighted areas of overspending, and the actions we've taken have demonstrated significant cost savings.
IBM Turbonomic has positively impacted our overall application performance.
IBM Turbonomic has helped reduce both CAPEX and OPEX. It has also significantly reduced cloud build times.
What is most valuable?
On-premises, one advantage I find particularly appealing is the ability to create policies for automatic CPU and memory scaling based on demand. This improves elasticity and responsiveness to application needs. Additionally, IBM Turbonomic helps us track and quantify cloud cost savings, facilitating informed decision-making.
We're also implementing FinOps principles. By collaborating with other departments, we can demonstrate the cost implications of various resource allocations. For example, specifying a minimum processor requirement might incur higher cloud costs. This increased awareness through IBM Turbonomic allows us to predict impact and make cost-effective decisions.
What needs improvement?
Turbonomic can modernize the look and feel, making it more user-friendly to access and obtain information.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using IBM Turbonomic for over two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
IBM Turbonomic is one of the most stable solutions that I have worked with in the last 26 years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
IBM Turbonomic is highly scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support team is both responsive and knowledgeable. They quickly escalate complex issues to someone who can resolve them efficiently.
How would you rate customer service and support?
How was the initial setup?
The initial deployment proved complex due to our extensive environment, encompassing over 23,000 VMs. This necessitated a year-long rollout, overseen by a dedicated team comprising a salesperson and a senior technical expert.
What about the implementation team?
IBM Turbonomic helped us with the implementation. They were a great partner.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment with IBM Turbonomic.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
IBM Turbonomic is an investment that we believe will deliver positive returns. We justified the purchase based on its potential to significantly reduce costs, which will allow us to recoup the investment and generate additional benefits. This ultimately makes refinancing a worthwhile option.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate IBM Turbonomic ten out of ten.
We need to perform regular maintenance due to the frequent release of updates.
I recommend that users review their internal processes and partner with other departments to facilitate company-wide implementation. Collaboration will be crucial, so ensure they have a FinOps practice in place, or establish one if necessary.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
