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Datapipe Cloud Analytics for AWS vs IBM Turbonomic comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Datapipe Cloud Analytics fo...
Ranking in Cloud Analytics
10th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Turbonomic
Ranking in Cloud Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
205
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (5th), Cloud Management (4th), Virtualization Management Tools (5th), IT Financial Management (1st), IT Operations Analytics (11th), Cloud Cost Management (1st), AIOps (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Cloud Analytics category, the mindshare of Datapipe Cloud Analytics for AWS is 3.2%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 26.7%, down from 37.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Turbonomic26.7%
Datapipe Cloud Analytics for AWS3.2%
Other70.1%
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Featured Reviews

JC
Director of Data Science at HealthWorks Analytics
Stable, straightforward to set up and does have good integration with various useful tools
The on-demand pipeline execution is something that we've had some challenges with for on-demand scheduling, however, we have some fairly complex use cases there. That said, we have had some problems getting that to work across a wide variety of use cases. Therefore, depending on the latency and the on-demand nature of it, they could do some improvement there. QuickSight is evolving pretty quickly. While I liked it, it integrates with it, it would help if they did more coordinated releases so that those features in their other products are improved and that those are available too. I'd like to see it coordinated or integrated with more of a data catalog. While there are some features there, the data governance and data cataloging, they touch on that, however, that's an important area of growth. It's becoming more and more important. That's why I would like to see more sophisticated and more complete data cataloging and data governance in that product. I know they're working on that. And of course, sometimes you have to go to half a dozen different AWS products before you get the thing you want. That said, I would like to see more data cataloging, more governance.
reviewer1446966 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I like that it's integrated, and I also like that it works well with SageMaker, and the nice thing about AWS is it actually works well in combination with some of their other tools like QuickSight and SageMaker, and I've found that those workflows to be fairly seamless and easy to coordinate across their products."
"It has allowed our IT organization to keep investments in hardware flat for a projected three year period, and we have seen a 30% performance improvement overall."
"Turbonomic has helped optimize cloud operations and reduced our cloud costs significantly, with overall savings of about 40 percent on our roughly three million dollars a year Azure spend, primarily by right-sizing machines instead of overprovisioning."
"Turbonomic can show us if we're not using some of our storage volumes efficiently in AWS. For example, if we've over-provisioned one of our virtual machines to have dedicated IOPs that it doesn't need, Turbonomic will detect that and tell us."
"This product has extended the life of our HW and allowed us to get more utilization out of the existing HW before needing to add hosts to the cluster."
"Easy to use central management of resources and report capabilities."
"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."
"It has increased the utilization of our hosts without sacrificing performance."
"Provides a level of automation beyond VMware provided DRS."
 

Cons

"I'd like to see it coordinated or integrated with more of a data catalog."
"We haven't really seen an ROI. We're doing more with that product, however, probably not saving money."
"Some of the previous versions have had some issues with the stability, but the latest versions, >=5.7, seems to have fixed this."
"It does take a while to figure out their way of doing things."
"The interface could be a little cleaner and navigation a little easier."
"The solution could be improved by having all interfaces together and I'd really like to see more interfaces."
"We're still evaluating the solution, so I don't know enough about what I don't know. They've done a lot over the years. I used Turbonomics six or seven years ago before IBM bought them. They've matured a lot since then."
"While the product is fairly intuitive and easy to use once you learn it, it can be quite daunting until you have undergone a bit of training."
"There needs to be a way to permanently ignore certain alerts, such as if you have a server where you know the HDD space is low but also know it's never going to grow any to tell it to always ignore that one."
"I would like Turbonomic to add more services, especially in the cloud area. I have already told them this. They can add Azure NetApp Files. They can add Azure Blob storage. They have already added Azure App service, but they can do more."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"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."
"The pricing is in line with the other solutions that we have. It's not a bargain software, nor is it overly expensive."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I'm not involved in any of the billing, but my understanding is that is fairly expensive."
"Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced."
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Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
6%
 

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Small Business41
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
 

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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 ...
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...
 

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Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager
 

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