Avepoint FLY vs IBM Turbonomic comparison

AvePoint and IBM are both solutions in the Cloud Migration category. AvePoint is ranked #5 with an average rating of 9.0, while IBM is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.6. AvePoint holds a 3.2% mindshare in CM, compared to IBM’s 3.7% 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

5th

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

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

205

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (4th), Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), IT Financial Management (1st), IT Operations Analytics (4th), Cloud Analytics (1st), Cloud Cost Management (1st), AIOps (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of Avepoint FLY is 3.2%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 3.7%, down from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Migration

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Robert Hedblom

Cloud and Solution Principal Architect at sumNERV Provider AB

Highly scalable and retains all metadata, properties, and essential information during user migrations from one tenant to another

I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. So it is only used while migration is occurring. But we do see that our clients are doing a lot of migrations since they make acquisitions of different companies. So I would say they are using it on a monthly basis.

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Dan Ambrose

Infrastructure Engineer 4 at Hyland

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

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

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

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

"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 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."

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

"Before implementing Turbonomic, we had difficulty reaching a consensus about VM placement and sizing. Everybody's opinion was wrong, including mine. The application developers, implementers, and infrastructure team could never decide the appropriate size of a virtual machine. I always made the machines small, and they always made them too big. We were both probably wrong."

"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."

"The proactive monitoring of all our open enrollment applications has improved our organization. We have used it to size applications that we are moving to the cloud. Therefore, when we move them out there, we have them appropriately sized. We use it for reporting to current application owners, showing them where they are wasting money. There are easy things to find for an application, e.g., they decommissioned the server, but they never took care of the storage. Without a tool like this, that storage would just sit there forever, with us getting billed for it."

"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."

"We've saved hundreds of hours. Most of the time those hours would have to be after hours as well, which are more valuable to me as that's my personal time."

"In our organization, optimizing application performance is a continuous process that is beyond human scale. We would not be able to do the number of actions that Turbonomic takes on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. It is humanly impossible with the little micro adjustments that it can make. That is a huge differentiator. If you just figure each action could take anywhere very conservatively from five to 10 minutes to act upon, then you multiply that out by thousands of actions every month, it is easily something where you could say, "I am saving a couple of FTEs.""

"I only deal with the infrastructure side, so I really couldn't speak to more than load balancing as the most valuable feature for me. It provides specific actions that prevent resource starvation. It always keeps things in perfect balance."

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Cons

"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."

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

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

"There is room for improvement [with] upgrades. We have deployed the newer version, version 8 of Turbonomic. The problem is that there is no way to upgrade between major Turbonomic versions. You can upgrade minor versions without a problem, but when you go from version 6 to version 7, or version 7 to version 8, you basically have to deploy it new and let it start gathering data again. That is a problem because all of the data, all of the savings calculations that had been done on the old version, are gone. There's no way to keep track of your lifetime savings across versions."

"The reporting needs to be improved. It's important for us to know and be able to look back on what happened and why certain decisions were made, and we want to use a custom report for this."

"Enhanced executive reporting standard with the tool beyond the reports that can be created today. Something that can easily be used with upper management on a monthly or quarterly basis to show the impact to our environment."

"Additional interfaces would be helpful."

"They have a long road map when we ask for certain things that will make the product better. It takes time, but that's understandable because there are other things that are higher on the priority list."

"We don't use Turbonomic for FinOps and part of the reason is its cost reporting. The reporting could be much more robust and, if that were the case, I could pitch it for FinOps."

"In Azure, it's not what you're using. You purchase the whole 8 TB disk and you pay for it. It doesn't matter how much you're using. So something that I've asked for from Turbonomic is recommendations based on disk utilization. In the example of the 8 TB disk where only 200 GBs are being used, based on the history, there should be a recommendation like, "You can safely use a 500 GB disk." That would create a lot of savings."

"It sometimes does get false positives. Sometimes, it'll move something when it really wasn't a performance metric. I've seen it do that, but it's pretty much an automated tool for performance. We've only got about 500 virtual machines, so lots of times, I'm able to manage it physically, but it's definitely a nice tool for a larger enterprise that might be managing 2,000 or 3,000 virtual machines."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"The product is fairly priced right now. Given its capabilities, it is excellently priced. We think that the product will become self-funding because we will be able to maximize our resources, which will help us from a capacity perspective. That should save us money in the long run."

"Licensing is per socket, so load up on the cores rather than a lot of lower core CPUs."

"The pricing and licensing are fair. We purchase based on benchmark pricing, which we have been able to get. There are no surprise charges nor hidden fees."

"I consider the pricing to be high."

"It is an endpoint type license, which is fine. It is not overly expensive."

"In the last year, Turbonomic has reduced our cloud costs by $94,000."

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

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

23%

Comms Service Provider

Real Estate/Law Firm

Government

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Avepoint FLY?

I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.

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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?

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...

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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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AvePoint

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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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