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 in the processes.
What do you dislike about the product?
I see no disadvantage in Turbonomic. The disadvantage is actually 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, in addition to helping with 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 resolution 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)
IBM Turbonomic works wonders with Clouds
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite thing about it is how practical it makes my work! Some points my team got to really apreciate was the resize of VMs, DB'S and Clusters :)
I also find the recommendations tool very useful! Helps me keep in check with services like Virtual Machines, Unattached Disks and Kubernets.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't think there's a bad side to IBM Turbonomic. Me and my coworkers are really enjoying it so far!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM Turbonomic is definetly solving financial issues we had before. It helps managing money, plans and performance (in Cloud)! It's a lot easier to organize myself now that we are using this :)) My coworkers also agree!
My experience with the tool was very positive.
What do you like best about the product?
Recommendations for resizing VM capacities
What do you dislike about the product?
Do not have ready reports on Idle VMs in my environment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
facilitate the extraction of problem resolution reports
Uma ferramenta fantástica de visibilidade de recursos
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Turbonomics is the ease with which we can visualize bottlenecks in certain groupings or even forgotten resources that generate costs. We can automate actions based on specific events in the environment. We can easily delegate to Project Managers the management of the tool's views in a segregated and secure manner.
What do you dislike about the product?
I believe we should have visibility modules in network management and security management with best practices and compliance. And I really miss a tool for analyzing resources versus revenue or accounts payable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The visibility over resources was the most impactful feature; we were able to have a real-time view of the usage and create savings strategies, whether through correct sizing or even by turning entire environments on and off.
The best tool to visualize the use of infrastructure resources
What do you like best about the product?
The intuitive way of making all infrastructure resources available through tree visualization and the possibility of seeing performance gains through resizing resources
What do you dislike about the product?
Not being able to directly see the final sum of the financial gains from resizing resources in a summarized way (when taking more than one action simultaneously)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being more productive with the cost killing and more efficient management of infrastructure resources,especially knowing the best types of virtual machines
Very Nice
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibilite in custo reduction and resilience with workload to able nice experience at company. I like with it`s working and offers possibilites for resolv your company.
What do you dislike about the product?
i didin`t find issue for to say dislike but one point is about the price of license for workload and this can be limited your workload and to be a issue for your company.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
very important resolv about some features and license for vcpu or machine. its very important for company about de cost to new workload and infrastructure. but i like this.
