2020-11-08T07:00:00Z

What do you like most about Turbonomic?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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Nicholas Diesel - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 20
2024-02-05T13:58:00Z
Feb 5, 2024

It is a good holistic platform that is easy to use. It works pretty well.

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MO
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2024-01-19T15:34:00Z
Jan 19, 2024

The primary features we have focused on are reporting and optimization.

KM
Real User
Top 20
2023-08-17T19:30:00Z
Aug 17, 2023

I like Turbonomic's automation and AI machine learning features. It shows you what it can do, but it can also act on recommendations automatically. Integration with an APM system makes the AI/ML features truly effective. Understanding what the application is doing and the trends of application behavior can help you make real-world decisions and act on that information.

BM
User
Top 20
2023-07-18T19:40:00Z
Jul 18, 2023

My favorite part of the solution is the automation scheduling. Being able to choose when actions happen, and how they happen...

JS
Real User
Top 20
2023-06-29T19:37:00Z
Jun 29, 2023

The notifications saying, "This is a corrective action," even though some of them can be automated, are always welcome to see. They summarize your entire infrastructure and how you can better utilize it. That is the biggest feature.

AS
Real User
Top 20
2023-02-17T19:44:00Z
Feb 17, 2023

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.

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SubashSubbiah - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
Top 20Leaderboard
2022-12-10T02:22:00Z
Dec 10, 2022

The most valuable features are the cluster utilization reports and the resource capacity planning. We can simulate how much capacity we can add to the current resources. The individual DM reports and VM-facing recommendations report are also helpful.

TS
Real User
Top 20
2022-09-21T07:03:00Z
Sep 21, 2022

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.

Keldric Emery - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10Leaderboard
2022-04-06T17:53:00Z
Apr 6, 2022

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.

Alex Darby - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2022-02-28T22:36:00Z
Feb 28, 2022

We can manage multiple environments using a single pane of glass, which is something that I really like.

SB
Real User
2021-11-11T12:39:00Z
Nov 11, 2021

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.

RM
Real User
2021-07-15T16:56:00Z
Jul 15, 2021

With Turbonomic, we were able to reduce our ESX cluster size and save money on our maintenance and license renewals. It saved us around $75,000 per year but it's a one-time reduction in VMware licensing. We don't renew the support. The ongoing savings is probably $50,000 to $75,000 a year, but there was a one-time of $200,000 plus.

MK
Real User
2021-05-10T20:46:00Z
May 10, 2021

The tool provides the ability to look at the consumption utilization over a period of time and determine if we need to change that resource allocation based on the actual workload consumption, as opposed to how IT has configured it. Therefore, we have come to realize that a lot of our workloads are overprovisioned, and we are spending more money in the public cloud than we need to.

DA
Real User
2021-03-31T06:40:00Z
Mar 31, 2021

The recommendation of the family types is a huge help because it has saved us a lot of money. We use it primarily for that. Another thing that Turbonomic provides us with is a single platform that manages the full application stack and that's something I really like.

LA
Real User
2021-03-30T22:26:00Z
Mar 30, 2021

We like that Turbonomic shows application metrics and estimates the impact of taking a suggested action. It provides us a map of resource utilization as part of its recommendation. We evaluate and compare that to what we think would be appropriate from a human perspective to that what Turbonomic is doing, then take the best action going forward.

AH
Real User
2020-12-29T10:56:00Z
Dec 29, 2020

In our organization, optimizing application performance is a continuous process that is beyond human scale. We would not be able to do the number of actions that Turbonomic takes on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. It is humanly impossible with the little micro adjustments that it can make. That is a huge differentiator. If you just figure each action could take anywhere very conservatively from five to 10 minutes to act upon, then you multiply that out by thousands of actions every month, it is easily something where you could say, "I am saving a couple of FTEs."

EC
Real User
2020-12-24T07:48:00Z
Dec 24, 2020

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 don't have to keep buying hardware. The developers always say, "They don't have enough. They don't have enough. They don't have enough," when they just configured it improperly. Therefore, Turbonomic helps us identify configuration issues on their side so it doesn't cost me money on the other end to buy resources that I don't really need.

CB
Real User
2020-12-06T06:40:00Z
Dec 6, 2020

Turbonomic has helped optimize cloud operations and reduced our cloud costs significantly. Overall, we are at about 40 percent savings, and we spend about three million a year just in Azure. It reduces the size of the VMs, putting them into the right template for usage. People don't realize that you don't have to future-proof a virtual machine in Azure. You just need to build it for today. As the business or service grows, you can scale up or out. About 90 percent of all the costs that we've reduced has been from sizing machines appropriately.

RM
Real User
2020-12-03T05:52:00Z
Dec 3, 2020

The proactive monitoring of all our open enrollment applications has improved our organization. We have used it to size applications that we are moving to the cloud. Therefore, when we move them out there, we have them appropriately sized. We use it for reporting to current application owners, showing them where they are wasting money. There are easy things to find for an application, e.g., they decommissioned the server, but they never took care of the storage. Without a tool like this, that storage would just sit there forever, with us getting billed for it.

TW
Real User
2020-12-02T06:24:00Z
Dec 2, 2020

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.

JK
Real User
2020-12-02T06:24:00Z
Dec 2, 2020

It also brings up a list of machines and if something is under-provisioned and needs more compute power it will tell you, 'This server needs more compute power, and we suggest you raise it up to this level.' It will even automatically do it for you. In Azure, you don't have to actually go into the cloud provider to resize. You can just say, 'Apply these resizes,' and Turbonomic uses some back-end APIs to make the changes for you.

KE
Real User
2020-12-02T06:24:00Z
Dec 2, 2020

The automated memory balancing, where it looks at whether it's being used in the most efficient way and adds or takes away memory, is the best part. If it didn't do that, it would be something that I would have to do. We have too many machines for one person to do that. The automation helps me in that it is done in a really efficient way and a balanced way because of the policies. It really helps.

DG
Real User
2020-11-08T07:00:00Z
Nov 8, 2020

I only deal with the infrastructure side, so I really couldn't speak to more than load balancing as the most valuable feature for me. It provides specific actions that prevent resource starvation. It always keeps things in perfect balance.

IBM Turbonomic is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by customers to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions. Common use cases include cloud cost optimization, cloud migration planning, data center modernization, FinOps acceleration, Kubernetes optimization, sustainable IT, and application resource management. Turbonomic customers...
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