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Cloudability vs IBM Turbonomic comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.7
Users saved significantly with Cloudability, achieving a 20% budget reduction and ninefold ROI, despite similar AWS tools.
Sentiment score
7.2
IBM Turbonomic offers quick ROI by reducing hardware costs, optimizing resources, and decreasing operational expenses through automation and efficiency.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
2.9
Enterprise customers report inconsistent Cloudability support, with mixed reviews on availability, communication, and need for improved data safety strategies.
Sentiment score
8.9
IBM Turbonomic's customer service is highly rated for its responsiveness, knowledge, and effectiveness, despite some mixed post-acquisition experiences.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
Cloudability is praised for effective scalability, though some users note minor performance issues and suggest feature improvements.
Sentiment score
6.9
IBM Turbonomic is scalable, seamlessly integrating with various environments while its licensing supports expansion, focusing on additional requirements.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Cloudability is stable and well-regarded, offering effective cost management and resource optimization across single and multi-cloud environments.
Sentiment score
7.4
IBM Turbonomic is praised for stability and robust performance, with minor update issues swiftly resolved by support.
 

Room For Improvement

Cloudability needs user-friendly enhancements, predictive modeling, automation, improved UI, and better support to streamline cloud management for users.
IBM Turbonomic needs an improved interface, better reporting, clearer documentation, more integrations, and a stable, mobile-compatible platform.
I believe that automating all manual processes in Cloudability would be beneficial, providing a proactive prescriptive analysis on what needs to be done to lower costs.
 

Setup Cost

Cloudability pricing is costly for smaller businesses but valued for efficiency; large enterprises find it proportionate and satisfactory.
IBM Turbonomic offers flexible, competitive pricing models, providing value through resource optimization and reducing hardware expenses effectively.
 

Valuable Features

Cloudability optimizes cloud costs through customizable dashboards, accurate chargebacks, and detailed reports, enhancing efficient resource usage and transparency.
IBM Turbonomic enhances efficiency through automation, capacity management, reporting, and planning, optimizing resource allocation and infrastructure decisions.
I find the reports to be extensive and elaborate, and I get whatever information I require.
 

Categories and Ranking

Cloudability
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
4th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
4.7
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Turbonomic
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
205
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (7th), Cloud Management (5th), Virtualization Management Tools (4th), IT Financial Management (1st), IT Operations Analytics (4th), Cloud Analytics (1st), AIOps (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Cloudability is 10.3%, down from 12.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 8.7%, down from 15.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
IBM Turbonomic8.7%
Cloudability10.3%
Other81.0%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

BapineeduBollempalli - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides insightful cost analysis and reporting but could improve automation and user customization
I work on the cloud platform primarily. I work on Google Cloud Platform's cost optimization where I identify opportunities and resources to optimize costs for customers, including infrastructure costs and BigQuery costs. This also encompasses managing unused backups, data, decommissioning, archiving, right-sizing VM instances, and slot consumption. I am a consultant, not an end user of this solution. I use it internally in my company, and I collect data for the customers as I work in LTI Mindtree. Cloudability's customizable alerts help me maintain budgetary goals by providing recommendations and alerts on slot usages. It also alerts me if some VM suddenly causes a spike in cost and usage. We look at the policies in place for infrastructure optimization concerning Compute Engine, persistent disks, MIGs, and VMs, and we leverage decommissioning of VMs or persistent disks and right-sizing the Compute Engine to ensure the customer doesn't go on demand and has an appropriate size of reserved instances allocated, thereby lowering costs proactively. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Cloudability a six out of ten.
Dan Ambrose - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
6%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business41
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cloudability?
The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Clouda...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudability?
I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, where one is very cheap and ten is very expensive. Pricing is one of the main issues we face. Cloudability is actually expensive, and it's quite diffic...
What needs improvement with Cloudability?
The first one is, how to help users, especially practitioners, stick to their commitment plan. For example, how can I use Cloudability to help me optimize my selling plan and my residential plan? T...
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 ...
What needs improvement with Turbonomic?
The implementation could be enhanced.
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...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager
 

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Sample Customers

Adobe, Uber, Pega, imgur, Pixable, Blackboard, Keboola, Avalara
IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.
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