Avepoint FLY vs IBM Turbonomic comparison

AvePoint and IBM are both solutions in the Cloud Migration category. AvePoint is ranked #4 with an average rating of 10.0, while IBM is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.0. AvePoint holds a 3.4% mindshare in CM, compared to IBM’s 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of AvePoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

IBM Turbonomic and Avepoint FLY are competing products in IT management and data migration. IBM Turbonomic likely holds the upper hand in resource optimization, whereas Avepoint FLY appears superior for cloud migration tasks based on feature comparisons and user data.

Features: IBM Turbonomic offers automation capabilities, application resource management, and performance optimization. Avepoint FLY provides robust cloud migration features, flexible multi-source migration, and comprehensive support for Microsoft 365.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Turbonomic supports on-premises and cloud deployment with a supportive structure and adaptability. Avepoint FLY is optimized for easy cloud deployment with seamless migrations supported by pre-migration assessments and extensive support to facilitate user transitions.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Turbonomic's setup costs can initially be higher due to advanced features but typically result in higher ROI over time through efficient resource management and cost savings. Avepoint FLY offers predictable pricing structures, appealing to businesses with fixed budget constraints, and delivers good ROI by minimizing migration time and downtime.

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Categories and Ranking

Avepoint FLY

Ranking in Cloud Migration

4th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Turbonomic

Ranking in Cloud Migration

6th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

205

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (5th), Virtualization Management Tools (4th), IT Financial Management (1st), IT Operations Analytics (5th), Cloud Analytics (1st), Cloud Cost Management (1st), AIOps (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of Avepoint FLY is 3.4%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 4.2%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Migration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Avepoint FLY	3.4%
IBM Turbonomic	4.2%
Other	92.4%

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Dave H

Technical Support Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Effortlessly manages large-scale data migrations and improves cost efficiency

There were some areas that could be improved with Avepoint FLY, particularly regarding an issue with the final reporting. While I cannot remember the exact issue, it was related to the final report concerning which files were migrated and what errors occurred. However, this could have been a user problem rather than an application problem.

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Dan Ambrose

Infrastructure Engineer 4 at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Helps visibility, bridges the data gap, and frees up time

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.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Some of the best features with Avepoint FLY are that it is very easy to use, and the tool moves files quite quickly."

"The initial setup phase can be described as a very user-friendly one...The solution's technical support was good since they responded very promptly."

"The solution is very straightforward to use. It's not overly difficult to figure out."

"The most valuable feature of AvePoint FLY is its ability to install or use multiple client servers using a single master server and balance the migration load depending on our needs."

"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."

"Turbonomic has helped optimize cloud operations and reduced our cloud costs significantly. Overall, we are at about 40 percent savings, and we spend about three million a year just in Azure. It reduces the size of the VMs, putting them into the right template for usage. People don't realize that you don't have to future-proof a virtual machine in Azure. You just need to build it for today. As the business or service grows, you can scale up or out. About 90 percent of all the costs that we've reduced has been from sizing machines appropriately."

"I have the ability to automate things similar to the Orchestrator stuff. I do have the ability to have it do some balancing, and if it sees some different performance metrics that I've set not being met, it'll actually move some of my virtual machines from, let's say, one host to another. It is sort of an automation tool that helps me. Basically, I specify the metric, and if I get a certain host or something being over-utilized, it'll automatically move the virtual machines around for me. It basically has to snap into my vCenter and then it can make adjustments and move my virtual machines around. It also has some very nice reporting tools built around virtual machines. It tells you how much storage, memory, or CPU is being used monthly, and then it gives you a very nice way to be able to send out billing structure to your end users who use servers within your environment."

"It helps us get a consolidated view of all customer spending into a single dashboard, allowing us to identify opportunities to improve their current spending."

"We have VM placement in Automated mode and currently have all other metrics in Recommend mode."

"We have a system where our developers automate machine builds, and that is constantly running out of resources. Turbonomic helps us with that, so I don't have to keep buying hardware. The developers always say, "They don't have enough. They don't have enough. They don't have enough," when they just configured it improperly. Therefore, Turbonomic helps us identify configuration issues on their side so it doesn't cost me money on the other end to buy resources that I don't really need."

"The primary features we have focused on are reporting and optimization."

"The recommendation of the family types is a huge help because it has saved us a lot of money. We use it primarily for that. Another thing that Turbonomic provides us with is a single platform that manages the full application stack and that's something I really like."

"It has automated a lot of things. We have saved 30 to 35 percent in human resource time and cost, which is pretty substantial. We don't have a big workforce here, so we have to use all the automation we can get."

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Cons

"The solution's reporting could be improved because it does not have a lot of reporting capabilities."

"Right now, AvePoint FLY doesn’t provide us with help to identify the size of the mailed items for a certain period."

"There were some areas that could be improved with Avepoint FLY, particularly regarding an issue with the final reporting. While I cannot remember the exact issue, it was related to the final report concerning which files were migrated and what errors occurred."

"The initial setup is a little bit more complex than setting up Cloud Backup for Avepoint."

"Technical support is lacking in that they don't seem to respond. I do a lot of research myself. I can't rely on them."

"Turbonomic can modernize the look and feel, making it more user-friendly to access and obtain information."

"Before IBM bought it, the support was fantastic. After IBM bought it, the support became very disappointing."

"The issue for us with the automation is we are considering starting to do the hot adds, but there are some problems with Windows Server 2019 and hot adds. It is a little buggy. So, if we turn that on with a cluster that has a lot of Windows 2019 Servers, then we would see a blue screen along with a lot of applications as well. Depending on what you are adding, cores or memory, it doesn't necessarily even take advantage of that at that moment. A reboot may be required, and we can't do that until later. So, that decreases the benefit of the real-time. For us, there is a lot of risk with real-time."

"Remove the need for special in-house knowledge and development."

"The deployment process is a little tricky. It wasn't hard for me because I have pretty in-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, and their software runs on Kubernetes. To deploy it or upgrade it, you have to be able to follow steps and use the Kubernetes command line, or you'll need someone to come in and do it for you."

"The way it handles updates needs to be improved."

"The automation area could be improved, and the generic reports are poor. We want more details in the analysis report from the application layer. The reports from the infrastructure layer are satisfactory, but Turbonomic won't provide much information if we dig down further than the application layer."

"I would love to see Turbonomic analyze backup data. We have had people in the past put servers into daily full backups with seven-year retention and where the disk size is two terabytes. So, every single day, there is a two terabyte snapshot put into a Blob somewhere. I would love to see Turbonomic say, "Here are all your backups along with the age of them," to help us manage the savings by not having us spend so much on the storage in Azure. That would be huge."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"AvePoint FLY's pricing is good enough for its capabilities."

"There are two different ways of licensing Avepoint FLY. So either you can use set up a licensing form based on objects which we do not recommend because then it will be more costly. So what you do is you set up the migration based on the users instead."

"The prices of the tool are neither low nor high, so it can be considered a moderately-priced product."

"We are using the trial version and find it to be costly. It's something around $20. With another attachment, the cost was lower, at about $3. However, you seem to have to buy more licenses than you need."

"If you're a super-small business, it may be a little bit pricey for you... But in large, enterprise companies where money is, maybe, less of an issue, Turbonomic is not that expensive. I can't imagine why any big company would not buy it, for what it does."

"You should understand the cost of your physical servers and how much time and money you are spending year over year on expanding your virtual farm."

"I don't know the current prices, but I like how the licensing is based on the number of instances instead of sockets, clusters, or cores. We have some VMs that are so heavy I can only fit four on one server. It's not cost-effective if we have to pay more for those. When I move around a VM SQL box with 30 cores and a half-terabyte of RAM, I'm not paying for an entire socket and cores where people assume you have at least 10 or 20 VMs on that socket for that pricing."

"We felt the pricing was very fair for the product. It is in no way prohibitive for larger deployments, unlike other similar product on the market."

"It's worth the time and money investment if you can afford it."

"Contact the Turbonomic sales team, explain your needs and what you're looking to monitor. They will get a pre-sales SE on the phone and together work up a very accurate quote."

"I know there have been some issues with the billing, when the numbers were first proposed, as to how much we would save. There was a huge miscommunication on our part. Turbonomic was led to believe that we could optimize our AWS footprint, because we didn't know we couldn't. So, we were promised savings of $750,000. Then, when we came to implement Turbonomic, the developers in AWS said, "Absolutely not. You're not putting that in our environment. We can't scale down anything because they coded it." Our AWS environment is a legacy environment. It has all these old applications, where all the developers who have made it are no longer with the company. Those applications generate a ton of money for us. So, if one breaks, we are really in trouble and they didn't want to have to deal with an environment that was changing and couldn't be supported. That number went from $750,000 to about $450,000. However, that wasn't Turbonomic's fault."

"I'm not involved in any of the billing, but my understanding is that is fairly expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	41
Midsize Enterprise	57
Large Enterprise	147

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Avepoint FLY?

My experience with the pricing and setup cost of Avepoint FLY was that it is very competitive and fairly priced. It was significantly cheaper than some of the alternatives I was exploring, such as ...

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What needs improvement with Avepoint FLY?

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What is your primary use case for Avepoint FLY?

The migration I was involved in with Avepoint FLY was for an oil and gas industry, specifically from a file server to SharePoint Online, and we moved approximately two terabytes of data.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?

It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is set as a percentage of the consumption of some of our customers' services. The ...

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What needs improvement with Turbonomic?

The implementation could be enhanced.

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What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?

We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting. This helps us get a consolidated view of all customer spending into a single d...

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Overview

True to its name, AvePoint FLY will help you fly through your migration to Microsoft 365 Cloud. AvePoint FLY is a highly-regarded solution that will quickly facilitate the migration and consolidation of data from file shares such as Google Drive, Slack, Dropbox, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 groups, and more, to your Microsoft 365 cloud.

AvePoint FLY is easy to set up and deploy and very easy to use. It provides for a thorough, speedy migration process that will save you and your organization time and money, while also ensuring any and all regulatory and compliance protocols are being thoroughly satisfied during the entire process.

Here is a quick rundown of how the solution works:

Analyze: AvePoint FLY starts with an intuitive analysis tool that can easily identify and determine which files are used regularly and are pertinent versus which files are stale and can be deleted or archived. The software can help enhance the migration planning and overall migration process while avoiding costly potential problems and threats. AvePoint FLY can easily understand what your current architecture comprises and make the very best, most precise decisions regarding your migration to Microsoft 365 cloud. The solution will greatly reduce administration time and will help you avoid costly hiccups and other issues, keeping the migration process moving smoothly at all times.

Migrate: AvePoint FLY tremendously simplifies the migration process by accurately consolidating the file shares using intuitive, policy-driven controls and solid migration planning to ensure every file share migrates according to your preset plans and protocols. You can choose to migrate in real time or schedule the migration for whenever you desire. The entire migration process can be managed with a simple drag-and-drop selection from the dashboard.

Monitor: You can closely track the progress and the results of your migration on the very user-friendly, easy-to-understand dashboard to ensure your pre-set, policy-driven controls and protocols are being met every step of the way. There are several different value-added reports available to access that will closely monitor what results and actions are being taken throughout the entire migration process. You can share that information with your clients and necessary team members so that everyone is fully aware of the progress of the migration at all times.

Support: AvePoint FLY offers outstanding, 24/7 support for the solution and throughout your migration process. There are several different support options available: phone, online, email, and now even a new customer portal.

AvePoint FLY is a great option if you need to declutter, purge or organize your data and you want it done quickly and economically. AvePoint FLY offers very flexible pricing options to fit just about every budget and every business size.

Reviews from Real Users

The solution is very straightforward to use. It's not overly difficult to figure out. Everything seems to be quite flexible. This is helpful as this was part of our requirements for a solution. The solution is quite stable and the performance has been good. - Manoj K., Senior System Administrator at a computer software company

AvePoint

IBM Turbonomic offers automation, planning, and right-sizing recommendations to streamline resource management, improve efficiencies, and optimize costs across virtualized environments and cloud platforms.

IBM Turbonomic is valued for its capability to optimize resource allocation and monitor virtual environments efficiently. It facilitates automated decision-making in VM sizing, load balancing, and cost optimization for both on-premises and cloud deployments. Users can leverage insights for workload placement, ensure peak performance assurance, and effectively right-size across VMware and Azure. The ongoing transition to HTML5 aims to improve visual and navigational ease, while expanded reporting features are anticipated. Opportunities for improved training, documentation, and integrations enhance platform usability and functionality.

What Are the Key Features?

Automation: Streamlines resource allocation and VM management.
Planning Tools: Supports capacity management and growth projections.
Right-Sizing: Optimizes VM configurations for efficient resource use.
Customizable Dashboards: Provides quick insights into environment health.
Reporting Capabilities: Offers valuable data for informed decision-making.
Cloud Integration: Ensures cost-effective resource utilization.

What Benefits Should Be Looked For?

Performance Enhancement: Improves application performance efficiency.
Cost Reduction: Minimizes operational expenses through optimizations.
Infrastructure Efficiency: Maximizes use of IT infrastructure resources.

In finance, IBM Turbonomic aids in maintaining platform efficiency during market fluctuations. Healthcare organizations leverage its capability for resource optimization during high-demand periods to enhance patient care support. Retailers use it for planning in peak seasons, ensuring resources align with fluctuating demand to maintain performance continuity.

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