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Ervis Charles
Identifies configuration issues so it doesn't cost money to buy resources which are not needed
We have a system where our developers automate machine builds, and that is constantly running out of resources. Turbonomic helps us with that, so I... Read more →
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Its agentless, making the deployment fast and easy
It has improved our organization through provisioning and security hardening. When we do get a new VM, we have been able to bring on a provisioned... 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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  • "Red Hat's open source approach was a factor when choosing Ansible, since the solution is free as of right now."
  • "If you only need to use Ansible, it's free for any end-user, but when you require Ansible Tower, you need to pay per Ansible Tower server."

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    Questions from the Community
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?
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    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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    Red Hat Satellite has proven to be a worthwhile investment for me. Both its patch management and license management have… more »
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    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    VMTurbo Operations Manager
    Cloud Service Automation Manager, HPE Cloud Service Automation
    Ansible
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    Turbonomic, an IBM company
    Micro Focus
    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

    Micro Focus Cloud Service Automation (CSA) provides open, heterogeneous, extensible enterprise-grade cloud service lifecycle management to design and orchestrate full stack services. CSA embraces existing automation assets with an enhanced orchestration engine, which provides IT with an informed, transparent delivery of secure compliant services for the hybrid cloud.

    Ansible is the simplest way to deploy your applications. It gives you the power to deploy multi-tier applications reliably and consistently, all from one common framework. You can configure needed services as well as push application artifacts from one common system.
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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
    China Merchants Bank, Osiatis
    HootSuite Media, Inc., Cloud Physics, Narrative, BinckBank
    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
    Computer Software Company30%
    Comms Service Provider20%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Healthcare Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Healthcare Company22%
    Comms Service Provider17%
    Government11%
    Legal Firm11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company26%
    Comms Service Provider17%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise51%
    Large Enterprise35%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise78%
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    Micro Focus Cloud Service Automation is ranked 29th in Cloud Management while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 5 reviews. Micro Focus Cloud Service Automation is rated 0.0, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.4. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Enables us to efficiently manage an almost unlimited number of nodes". Micro Focus Cloud Service Automation is most compared with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), Control-M, AWS Control Tower and Operations Orchestration, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, Red Hat Satellite, VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), BigFix and Microsoft Azure DevOps.

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