CloudBolt vs IBM Turbonomic vs vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] comparison

CloudBolt and IBM are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. CloudBolt is ranked #31 with an average rating of 8.0, while IBM is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.3. Additionally, 90% of CloudBolt users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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90% willing to recommend

IBM Turbonomic

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98% willing to recommend

vRealize Business for Cloud...

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100% willing to recommend

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

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AbhishekGupta2

Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Centralized self-service has unified hybrid clouds and has improved governance and cost control

The best features CloudBolt offers include governance and policy control, allowing security teams to set up their specific guardrails with governance at scale. Multi or hybrid cloud abstraction provides a single pane of glass for different types of environments, and self-service catalogs enable technical or business users to request services without multiple tickets. CloudBolt also offers strong integration capabilities that work well with existing tools without disrupting the current environment. From an integration standpoint, CloudBolt works well with various public and private cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and Nutanix, as well as different virtualization software, infrastructure as code templates such as Ansible and Terraform, ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, and CMDB platforms. CloudBolt has positively impacted my organization by managing multiple cloud environments for thousands of users with a complex enterprise workflow that has helped reduce man-hours required for provisioning resources. We have achieved faster delivery through standardized operating procedures and reduced reworks due to automation. The chargeback and showback mechanisms allow us to charge different business units according to their consumption, providing better governance, lower risk, and lower cost, resulting in a good return on investment. Since using CloudBolt, I have seen a 25 to 30 percent reduction in service delivery time and an improvement in efficiency of almost 20 to 25 percent within a timeframe of approximately 8 to 10 months.

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reviewer1446966

Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution reduced our operational expenditures and is able to identify points before we even noticed them

The management interface seems to be designed for high-resolution screens. Somebody with a smaller-resolution screen might not like the web interface. I run a 4K monitor on it, so everything fits on the screen. With a lower resolution like 1080, you need to scroll a lot. Everything is in smaller windows. It doesn't seem to be designed for smaller screens. When I change the resolution to 1080, I only see half of what I would on my big 4K monitor. It would be annoying to have to scroll to see the flow chart. They have a flow chart that goes top to bottom like a tree. On a lower resolution, it might be nice if that scrolls horizontally because it's long, narrow, and tall. It's only three icons wide, but it's 15 icons tall. I think it would be helpful to have the ability to change that for a smaller screen and customize the widget.

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ThomasMeyer

Solutions Architect and project manager at MIB leipzig

Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management

The most valuable feature is automation. With the automation, you can easily and quickly implement it by deploying gnashing on virtual environments. It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems. So automation helps us to do our work quickly and easily. VMware vRealize has standardized systems for doing work after the deployment. First, you have to set up the language on the system itself. Then there are vRealize's orchestration features. You can implement code in your deployment script to do this configuration automatically. So the orchestrator is a beneficial component. With this, you can implement automatic language selection and automated integration. In other systems, you can implement a multi-blueprint or multi-system environment to deploy the entire database environment and applications on this database with one click. The lifecycle manager is also essential. In version 7.5, you must provide a dir example username and password to access the Citrix server and controller. What's more, you have to include this in your script or your code. But in version 8, you can provide the username and password or store them in the lifecycle manager. So then you can pick it up from there. And that's the only location where you have to change the password. You don't have to change it in every script. That's a massive improvement in version 8.

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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

"Role-based access control and application blueprinting."

"The solution's biggest advantage is flexibility"

"CloudBolt's ease of use, coupled with our initial focus on fully automating infrastructure deployment, has won accolades from our internal stakeholders."

"The initial deployment was super easy."

"Hybrid cloud platform for VM and app deployment and management, with very good stability. It's customizable, easy to set up, and can be deployed within half an hour."

"Since using CloudBolt, I have seen a 25 to 30 percent reduction in service delivery time and an improvement in efficiency of almost 20 to 25 percent within a timeframe of approximately 8 to 10 months."

"The product takes care of a hybrid cloud environment and it helps me maintain control and insight across various cloud platforms."

"Customer Service: World class."

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"Customer Service: Excellent. My rep always stays in touch and keeps us in the loop when changes are coming."

"Customer Service: Excellent. They've always been quick to support any issues/queries we have."

"Due to automation of workload placements Infra Management has been more efficient and smooth."

"Customer service has always been exceptional and technical support has been very quick to respond and very knowledgeable."

"In the first month, we ran this as a POC, and it saved us over 5k a month in costs by implementing its recommendations."

"Great product and we use it extensively, from setting up VMturbo to load balance our VM's across a cluster, implementing right sizing recommendations, policy rules, memory/storage and CPU trends and plans for future projections in order to determine how we can reduce our hardware and licensing footprints."

"I like Turbonomic's automation and AI machine learning features. It shows you what it can do, but it can also act on recommendations automatically. Integration with an APM system makes the AI/ML features truly effective. Understanding what the application is doing and the trends of application behavior can help you make real-world decisions and act on that information."

"The Turbonomic solution works/performs as advertised and automatically removes a large workload in the day to day care of my virtual environment."

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"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."

"The flexibility of the solution is the most valuable feature."

"The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services."

"The features I find most valuable about this solution is it helps us to automate all the provisioning activities on the platform."

"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."

"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."

"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."

"I like the openness of the solution."

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Cons

"The management of SaaS must be improved."

"The scheduling feature of CloudBolt needs improvement because sometimes, it doesn't work."

"I had an issue with the scheduling feature of CloudBolt, but I'm not sure if that's been fixed in the new version."

"The area of integrating on-prem and cloud needs improvement."

"The solution is not easy to use. It's not intuitive enough to click anywhere in the solution and make it work."

"We did find it was a bit challenging to scale horizontally behind a load balancer in an active/active configuration."

"Support for containers is basic and needs improvement."

"Could increase the number of integrations and add more out-of-the-box work flows."

More CloudBolt cons

"Price is a little bit steep – if you have a targeted project, then its worth it, otherwise ongoing costs can be a little steep."

"UI is still maturing. The UI is relatively easy to use but still does not have that professional look to it."

"The GUI is not always user friendly and some settings are not where you would expect."

"Due to the planner feature's breadth of scenarios it can be a little confusing to get the right result for the scenario you need."

"Recovering resources when they're not needed is not as optimized as it could be."

"GUI can be more user friendly."

"A more interactive dashboard with integrated features."

"Some of the previous versions have had some issues with the stability, but the latest versions, >=5.7, seems to have fixed this."

More IBM Turbonomic cons

"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."

"It's not always easy to find the information you need. You must have a lot of technical experience to find the right location for what you're implementing within the program."

"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."

"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."

"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."

"It's not always easy to find the information you need."

"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."

"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the pricing an eight out of ten because the solution is expensive."

"The system is cheaper if a customer has fewer servers since you pay by the node."

"The solution is reasonably priced."

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

"We see ROI in extended support agreements (ESA) for old software. Migration activities seem to be where Turbonomic has really benefited us the most. It's one click and done. We have new machines ready to go with Turbonomic, which are properly sized instead of somebody sitting there with a spreadsheet and guessing. So, my return on investment would certainly be on currency, from a software and hardware perspective."

"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."

"I consider the pricing to be high."

"Everybody tells me the pricing is high. But the ROIs are great."

"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 pricing is in line with the other solutions that we have. It's not a bargain software, nor is it overly expensive."

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

More IBM Turbonomic pricing and cost advice

"The pricing model is complicated."

"It's expensive, which is one of the problems with this solution."

"The product is a cost-effective solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudBolt?

To improve CloudBolt, I believe the user experience needs enhancement as some users find it somewhat dated compared t...

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What is your primary use case for CloudBolt?

My main use case for CloudBolt includes having a centralized self-service provisioning and orchestration, allowing me...

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What advice do you have for others considering CloudBolt?

For others looking into using CloudBolt, I advise defining governance policies early, focusing on building modular au...

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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...

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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?

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Also Known As

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Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager

VMware IT Business Management Suite, VMware ITBM, IT Business Management Suite, Digital Fuel

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Overview

CloudBolt supports a variety of cloud technologies, from on-premises virtualization and private cloud to a wide range public and hybrid cloud configurations.

No need to rip-and-replace. CloudBolt provides easy import, syncing, and management of legacy deployments even as it helps you build out new cloud environments.

CloudBolt lets administrators create and maintain configuration standards while developing a reusable library of service and application templates.

CloudBolt

IBM Turbonomic enhances IT efficiency with automation, capacity planning, and reporting features, enabling organizations to optimize resource utilization and improve performance through advanced workload management and scenario analysis.

IBM Turbonomic equips organizations with robust capabilities for dynamic resource allocation and informed decision-making. Its planning module provides scenario analysis, right-sizing recommendations, and a customizable dashboard for tailored insights. Automation features improve workload placements and resource efficiency, while forecasting capabilities enhance performance. Simulation of environments helps in decision-making, leading to significant savings in cloud and hardware management. There is a need for a more intuitive interface, enhanced navigation, and improved customization in reporting with integration potential with third-party applications. Transition to the HTML5 interface and stronger training resources are among anticipated improvements.

What are the key features of IBM Turbonomic?

Automation: Automates workload placement and dynamic resource allocation to boost efficiency.
Capacity Planning: Provides scenario analysis and right-sizing for optimal resource use.
Customizable Dashboard: Offers tailored insights for organization needs.
Forecasting: Enhances decision-making through resource-use predictions.
Simulation Capabilities: Aids in assessing savings and performance gains.

What benefits and ROI should be evaluated?

Cost Optimization: Reduces spending on cloud and hardware resources.
Enhanced Performance: Promotes consistent application performance and resource efficiency.
Improved Decision-Making: Supports informed choices with scenario simulation.
Flexibility and Scalability: Assists with workload migrations and resource management across environments.

IBMTurbonomic is implemented across industries such as cloud management and virtualization, helping organizations balance clusters, optimize virtual machine performance, and manage Azure configurations. In resource-monitored environments like VMware and XenServer, its features facilitate load balancing, VM rightsizing, and automation shutoffs. Industries can rely on its insights for cost-saving measures, ensuring efficient resource allocation for hybrid and cloud environments.

IBM

VMware IT Business Management Suite offers in three editions: Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise. VMware IT Business Management Suite provides transparency and control over the cost and quality of IT services. By providing a business context to the services IT offers, IT Business Management helps IT organizations shift from a technology orientation to a service broker orientation, delivering a portfolio of IT services that align with the needs of line of business stakeholders. With benchmarks providing objective evidence, IT Business Management also provides the fact-based approach needed to minimize the cost of IT while maximizing the value IT delivers to its customers. Greater transparency and alignment, and the continuous improvement of IT services they enable, support IT as it seeks to develop competitive advantage through major IT transformation initiatives such as cloud, mobility and data center modernization.

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Sample Customers

WM, CyWest, Panic, Camden, University of Maryland, Xerox, Neustar, Medidata, Continu, Aruba Networks, Neuberger Berman, Peak6, EverBank, Ascensus, Hosting Edge

IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.

Rent-A-Center, SAIC - (Science Applications International Corporation), Tribune Media, iGATE, EMC, Deutsche Telekom, GEFCO, Banca Ifis

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