IBM Turbonomic vs Morpheus comparison

IBM and Morpheus Data are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. IBM is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.1, while Morpheus Data is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.5. IBM holds a 4.0% mindshare in CM, compared to Morpheus Data’s 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Morpheus Data users who would recommend it.

IBM Turbonomic

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77% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

IBM Turbonomic and Morpheus are leading contenders in the cloud management platform category. Based on comparison, IBM Turbonomic leans towards automation and resource optimization, while Morpheus benefits from strong integration and multi-cloud support.

Features: IBM Turbonomic offers automation, resource balancing, and capacity planning. It stands out with its forecasting tool and economic algorithms for right-sizing, optimizing IT environments. Morpheus supports multi-cloud management, with a centralized platform for cost optimization and strong integration capabilities, enhancing resource management across various cloud services.

Room for Improvement: IBM Turbonomic users seek improvements in user interface design, comprehensive reporting, and better third-party integration. There's a need for intuitive dashboards and a transition from Flash to HTML5. Users also desire improved documentation for complex features. Morpheus could benefit from a simpler user interface, more effective handling of complex virtual machines, and better integration with telco workloads. Attention to pricing complexity and feature usability is also requested.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Turbonomic provides support for on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments, with customer service and technical support often exceeding expectations. However, a post-acquisition shift in service quality is noted. Morpheus supports hybrid, private, and public cloud deployments, with user satisfaction in service support akin to IBM's offerings.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Turbonomic's flexible licensing options per socket or VM often deliver ROI within a year by optimizing server use, avoiding extra hardware expenses. Morpheus's pay-as-you-grow model based on VMs benefits smaller deployments, though it can become expensive as usage scales. Both products feature distinct pricing strategies catering to different user needs.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Turbonomic

Ranking in Cloud Management

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

205

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (3rd), Virtualization Management Tools (4th), IT Financial Management (1st), IT Operations Analytics (5th), Cloud Analytics (1st), Cloud Cost Management (1st), AIOps (11th)

Morpheus

Ranking in Cloud Management

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 4.0%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Morpheus is 4.7%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM Turbonomic	4.0%
Morpheus	4.7%
Other	91.3%

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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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reviewer2773878

Morpheus specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Has improved automation by cutting VM provisioning time in half and simplifying environment setup

From my perspective, the best feature Morpheus offers is the service catalog. The service catalog stands out for me because it allows me to prepare or develop something for a client to automate or clearly prepare forms for a client who may not be familiar with more specific details of the product, such as the provision of virtual machines. In my organization, Morpheus is a very useful tool to automate processes. For example, provisioning new virtual machines reduces the time required, and every action is very fast using Morpheus, allowing me to prepare new environments for testing or proof-of-concept projects.

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

Pros

"The automation and orchestration components are definitely the best part, as you can tell it what it can do and when, and just let it be."

"With over 2500 ESX VMs, including 1500+ XenDesktop VDI desktops, hosted over two datacentres and 80+ vSphere hosts, firefighting has become something of the past."

"I like Turbonomic's built-in reporting. It provides a ton of information out of the box, so I don't have to build panels for the monthly summaries and other reports I need to present to management. We get better performance and bottleneck reporting from this than we do from our older EMC software."

"The solution has a good optimization feature."

"It has automated a lot of things. We have saved 30 to 35 percent in human resource time and cost, which is pretty substantial. We don't have a big workforce here, so we have to use all the automation we can get."

"Turbonomic helps us right-size virtual machines to utilize the available infrastructure components available and suggest where resources should exist. We also use the predictive tool to forecast what will happen when we add additional compute-demanding virtual machines or something to the environment. It shows us how that would impact existing resources. All of that frees up time that would otherwise be spent on manual calculation."

"We have seen a 30% performance improvement overall."

"We've saved hundreds of hours. Most of the time those hours would have to be after hours as well, which are more valuable to me as that's my personal time."

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"In my organization, Morpheus is a very useful tool to automate processes—for example, provisioning new virtual machines reduces the time required, and every action is very fast using Morpheus, allowing me to prepare new environments for testing or proof-of-concept projects."

"Provides a good automation platform."

"The user interface of the application is exceptional."

"Morpheus is an intuitive solution that is very easy to use."

"The most beneficial features for us were the API integrations with various cloud vendors like Nutanix, VMware, AWS, Azure, and GCP. It saved us the effort of doing that work ourselves."

"The most valuable feature for me was cost optimization."

"Morpheus provides a very easy and one-click solution to scaling up and down."

"The most valuable feature of Morpheus is its strong integration with vSphere Cloud."

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Cons

"Enhanced executive reporting standard with the tool beyond the reports that can be created today. Something that can easily be used with upper management on a monthly or quarterly basis to show the impact to our environment."

"It can be more agnostic in terms of the solutions that it provides. It can include some other cost-saving methods for the public cloud and SaaS applications as well."

"The one point is the reporting. We do have reports out of it, but they're not the level of graphical detail I would like."

"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."

"The reporting needs to be improved. It's important for us to know and be able to look back on what happened and why certain decisions were made, and we want to use a custom report for this."

"The way it handles updates needs to be improved."

"I like the detail I get in the old user interface and will miss some of that in the new interface when we perform our planned upgrade soon."

"Remove the need for special in-house knowledge and development."

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"The service is limited and somewhat lacking."

"We've been facing some challenges with Morpheus due to its design for public cloud usage."

"The solution's pricing and customization need to improve."

"We had to put in much effort ourselves since Morpheus's support wasn't always available to help us."

"I would suggest adding integrated tools such as FinOps or other management tools as improvements to Morpheus."

"The product has become overly complex. The biggest problem is that we find a bug, they fix the bug, but then another one pops up. We can never really deliver on the vision we had using Morpheus."

"There is room for enhancement in integrating Morpheus with other solutions."

"The tool could support virtual network functions better. It is really good at doing enterprise-type of things, but one of the things on which we're working with them is loading very complex virtual machines with it, such as Juniper SRX routers. It needs to support more complex virtualized resources a little bit better. Aside from that, it is a terrific tool. We really like it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"You should understand the cost of your physical servers and how much time and money you are spending year over year on expanding your virtual farm."

"What I can advise is to trial the product, taking advantage of the Turbonomic pre-sales implemention support and kickstart training."

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

"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 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."

"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 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."

"I consider the pricing to be high."

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"Initially, the license may seem like a good deal, but as we grow, it becomes costly."

"Licensing is on an annual basis, and it is upfront for the year. There is no extra cost unless you want additional support or specific deployment packs."

"Morpheus doesn't directly support cost optimization, but its API integration can facilitate resource optimization. It doesn't dynamically optimize resources like an aeronautic system would; it operates step by step."

"The solution is cheaper if you have less number of servers, but it becomes very expensive for a large number of servers."

"The license is based on the number of virtual machines that Morpheus is managing. So, it is a pay-as-you-grow model."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

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 ...

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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?

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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What do you like most about Morpheus?

The most beneficial features for us were the API integrations with various cloud vendors like Nutanix, VMware, AWS, Azure, and GCP. It saved us the effort of doing that work ourselves.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Morpheus?

We've been a Morpheus customer since the early days. I know what they're trying to sell now, and you'd really need a strong use case to justify the cost.

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What needs improvement with Morpheus?

I think that adding artificial intelligence or a large language model inside Morpheus would be very useful for clients. I would suggest adding integrated tools such as FinOps or other management to...

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Also Known As

Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager

Morpheus Cloud Management Platform, Morpheus CMP

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Overview

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

Morpheus is a 100% agnostic cloud management platform (CMP) designed from the ground up to unify management of multi-cloud and hybrid IT while empowering DevOps teams with self-service provisioning of bare metal, VM, and container-based application services.

Morpheus Data

Sample Customers

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

Morpheus CMP, mcdonalds, blackrock, HSBC, astrazeneca, arris, WGU, GBG, pennstate, beyondtrust

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