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Flexera Cloud Management Platform (CMP) vs HPE OneSphere vs IBM Turbonomic comparison

 

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Flexera Cloud Management Platform (CMP) is 2.2%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE OneSphere is 1.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 4.7%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Turbonomic4.7%
Flexera Cloud Management Platform (CMP)2.2%
HPE OneSphere1.6%
Other91.5%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2814465 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Cloud Cost Over And Visibility Parts at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Cloud governance has improved compliance and currently optimizes costs across providers
The most valuable features that Flexera Cloud Management Platform (CMP) offers are cost visibility, policy-based governance, and optimization insights. It helps identify unused and underutilized resources and enforces policies to avoid unnecessary cloud spending. The centralized view across cloud providers is a big advantage. We have saved money with Flexera Cloud Management Platform (CMP) and using the software has been very helpful for us to remain compliant. Since I have been in this organization, we have been using Flexera Cloud Management Platform (CMP) and I have not used a different solution before. Flexera Cloud Management Platform (CMP) improved compliance so effectively. For example, work that usually took 10 hours to complete now takes four hours, so we are saving six hours of time. Flexera Cloud Management Platform (CMP) impacted us positively. It supports optimization efforts and helps enable better financial planning and governance, matching our cloud consumption with business and budget goals. The centralized view across cloud providers helps my team by improving visibility into cloud storage, usage, and spend, enabling better financial planning and governance. It supports optimization efforts and helps my team align cloud consumption with business and budget goals.
it_user781113 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Engineer at Data Strategy
Worked right the first time out-of-the-box; we were provisioning to AWS within 10 minutes
Ironically, most of the features that we might have wanted to see were already introduced in the product announcement today, from what we saw in the beta, which was kind of cool. You can't come to market unless you have Azure support, and Azure was all over every slide we saw, so that was pretty cool. A couple of things that I did see, there are a couple of security features that need to be enhanced. It is way too easy to provision a VM onto a public cloud, wide open to everybody. So, there are a couple of issues there. We are obviously going to talk with the product teams and the architects about some of those things; a handful of things here and there. Most of the things we were looking for were already included. Things that we had requested a month ago, we are now seeing them here: Azure Stack integration and the OneView integration. These were the things we were saying, "Hey, if these were there, it would be really cool. We could use this." All of a sudden, "Oh hey, guess what is going to be at launch?" I am very eager to get my hands on the next version of this product, and to see what may or may not be missing.
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

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Pros

"With RightScale we now have the ability to provision an entire Data Center and Application stack in less than an hour."
"Flexera Cloud Management Platform (CMP) impacted us positively; it supports optimization efforts and helps enable better financial planning and governance, matching our cloud consumption with business and budget goals."
"The most valuable feature is Optima, which is something that we use quite extensively."
"Our customers are getting an ROI after 9 months and increasing productivity five-fold."
"With this platform, users could migrate to the cloud on the go and use public cloud services like Oracle database while integrating with their own local storage."
"On the cloud management side, this product works well and there is nothing that our customers have mentioned they would like to have improved."
"OneSphere being a SaaS platform, you do not have to deal with those issues, it is in quickly and you can begin utilizing it right away."
"With all the time and investment in all the competitive products, still it makes them not even a competitor anymore, with how this works."
"Our ROI occurred in less than 6 months by allowing us to avoid a costly server upgrade that was planned for parts of our VMware infrastructure."
"Customer service has been amazing, the guys on the tech teams have been available and helpful every time we have had an issue."
"Automation options for moving and resizing VMs as necessary have been crucial for our environment's performance."
"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."
"It allowed us to plan and scale our capacity based on our sales pipeline."
"It has saved us from purchasing new hardware in four regional offices and had us extend the service for two years, instead of buying new servers (HPE Gen8 and Gen9 servers running on fifth year)."
"ROI can sometimes be quite subjective; however, with Turbonomic it’s genuinely evident from the get-go, with automation working toward maximum optimization, efficiency, and uptime, and capacity and future planning capabilities that offer the ability to generate the what-if scenarios using your own current environment as the model to build on."
"This has saved us a great deal of expenses by better balancing workloads across ESXi hosts."
 

Cons

"There is room for improvement in the integrations and automation flexibility with Flexera Cloud Management Platform (CMP). In some cases, the learning curve can be steep, especially when dealing with more advanced automation or large-scale environments."
"Technical support is an area that can be improved."
"CAT creation."
"There is a problem with integration due to invalid private node security certificates."
"We are looking to be able to set a hard budget for the workspaces or projects."
"A couple of things that I did see, there are a couple of security features that need to be enhanced."
"Initially the GUI was difficult to follow and find where things are. It's gotten better but the GUI could still use some work to make certain functions more obvious."
"There are a few things that we did notice. It does kind of seem to run away from itself a little bit; it does seem to have a mind of its own sometimes, and it goes out there and just kind of goes crazy."
"There are a lot of preconfigured reports that can be ran within Turbonomics for some of the more common information needed. To do a custom report you have to create a SQL query string and add it as a report to gather custom information."
"Firstly the documentation and help files are not overly intuitive, providing very few examples or details on how to gain the most out of the product."
"The automation area could be improved, and the generic reports are poor. We want more details in the analysis report from the application layer. The reports from the infrastructure layer are satisfactory, but Turbonomic won't provide much information if we dig down further than the application layer."
"We did see a few issues on a previous version with reporting."
"The user interface has room for improvement, but it is well on its way with the new UI that is being developed."
"More Azure features are needed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is higher than an open-source product, or CloudForms, or IBM Cloud Pak, but it is still not very high."
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"I have not seen Turbonomic's new pricing since IBM purchased it. When we were looking at it in my previous company before IBM's purchase, it was compatible with other tools."
"It's worth the time and money investment if you can afford it."
"I don't know the current prices, but I like how the licensing is based on the number of instances instead of sockets, clusters, or cores. We have some VMs that are so heavy I can only fit four on one server. It's not cost-effective if we have to pay more for those. When I move around a VM SQL box with 30 cores and a half-terabyte of RAM, I'm not paying for an entire socket and cores where people assume you have at least 10 or 20 VMs on that socket for that pricing."
"The pricing is in line with the other solutions that we have. It's not a bargain software, nor is it overly expensive."
"What I can advise is to trial the product, taking advantage of the Turbonomic pre-sales implemention support and kickstart training."
"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."
"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."
"Licensing is per socket, so load up on the cores rather than a lot of lower core CPUs."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Construction Company
7%
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Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
6%
 

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Small Business41
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
 

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RightScale Cloud Management Platform, MultiCloud Platform
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Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager
 

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