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Sam Beckett
The cost savings is significant, especially with our AWS computing
Cost savings is a significant benefit, especially with our AWS computing. It cuts down on human error. For example, sometimes someone will spin up... Read more →
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  • "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."
  • "It was an annual buy-in. You basically purchase it based on your host type stuff. The buy-in was about 20K, and the annual maintenance is about $3,000 a year."
  • "I'm not involved in any of the billing, but my understanding is that is fairly expensive."
  • "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."
  • "When we have expanded our licensing, it has always been easy to make an ROI-based decision. So, it's reasonably priced. We would like to have it cheaper, but we get more benefit from it than we pay for it. At the end of the day, that's all you can hope for."
  • "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."
  • "It is an endpoint type license, which is fine. It is not overly expensive."
  • "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."

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  • "It is definitely cheaper than VMware. Everything is included. There is no challenge there."

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    Questions from the Community
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?
    Top Answer: 
    Licensing costs are middle of the road; you need to take into account what the solution delivers to the customer. If… more »
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    What needs improvement with Turbonomic?
    Top Answer: 
    It's tough to say how they could improve. They've done a lot better with their Kubernetes integration. If you'd asked me… more »
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    What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?
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    We have a hybrid cloud setup that includes some on-prem resources, and then we have AWS as our primary cloud provider… more »
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    What do you like most about Red Hat CloudForms?
    Top Answer: 
    The multi-tenancy feature has been very helpful for our clients. It has been working fine and seamlessly for them. Its… more »
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    What needs improvement with Red Hat CloudForms?
    Top Answer: 
    Our clients had challenges or issues with the updates. Its updates should be better managed. They should provide quicker… more »
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    What advice do you have for others considering Red Hat CloudForms?
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    Its deployment was done by Red Hat for us. We had help from the best experts. I would advise others to get a few days of… more »
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    Also Known As
    VMTurbo Operations Manager
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    Turbonomic, an IBM company
    Apache
    Red Hat
    Overview

    Turbonomic, an IBM Company, provides Application Resource Management (ARM) software used by customers to assure application performance and governance by dynamically resourcing applications across hybrid and multicloud environments. Turbonomic Network Performance Management (NPM) provides modern monitoring and analytics solutions to help assure continuous network performance at scale across multivendor networks for enterprises, carriers and managed services providers.

    For further information, please visit www.turbonomic.com

    www.turbonomic.com/resources/case-studies

    Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

    Manage container, virtual, private, and public cloud infrastructures

    Managing a complex, hybrid IT environment can require multiple management tools, redundant policy implementations, and extra staff to handle the operations. Red Hat® CloudForms simplifies IT, providing unified management and operations in a hybrid environment.

    As your IT infrastructure progresses from traditional virtualization toward an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model, CloudForms evolves, protecting your investments and providing consistent user experience and functionality.

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    Sample Customers
    JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi, ANZ, Credit Suisse, State Street, Morningstar, VOYA, TPICAP, LPL Financial, Cisco, BMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Agilysys, MetLife, Hiscox, Humana, Tokio Marine, Allscripts, SHARP, Providence St. Joseph Health, NBC Universal, pwc, KPMG, Wayfair, Carhartt, Tiffany & Co., UCLA, NASA, NIH
    GreenQloud, Exoscale, TomTom, ASG, PC Extreme, ISWest, Grid'5000
    Cox Automotive, Penn State, FICO, G-ABLE, Seneca College, ITandTEL, The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), MyRepublic, Macquarie, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CBTS, Network Data Solutions (NDS)
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Healthcare Company14%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Energy/Utilities Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company31%
    Comms Service Provider20%
    Government6%
    Financial Services Firm5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider34%
    Computer Software Company27%
    Media Company5%
    Educational Organization4%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company31%
    Comms Service Provider29%
    Government6%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise51%
    Large Enterprise35%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise47%
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    CloudStack is ranked 22nd in Cloud Management while Red Hat CloudForms is ranked 12th in Cloud Management with 4 reviews. CloudStack is rated 0.0, while Red Hat CloudForms is rated 6.6. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat CloudForms writes "Simple interface, seamless multi-tenancy feature, and good scalability, but needs stable updates, better compatibility, and clarity about support". CloudStack is most compared with OpenNebula, VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), Cisco CloudCenter, vCloud Director and HPE Eucalyptus, whereas Red Hat CloudForms is most compared with IBM Spectrum Computing, VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), IBM Cloud Automation Manager and Cloudify.

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