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CelerData vs IBM Turbonomic comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CelerData
Ranking in Cloud Analytics
13th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
3
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 (3rd), Cloud Management (4th), Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), IT Financial Management (1st), IT Operations Analytics (8th), Cloud Cost Management (3rd), AIOps (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Cloud Analytics category, the mindshare of CelerData is 2.3%. The mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 21.8%, down from 24.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Turbonomic21.8%
CelerData2.3%
Other75.9%
Cloud Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Jorge Novo - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized analytics has improved real-time campaign reporting and accelerated dashboard insights
CelerData can be improved in several areas. I have identified issues where the transportation and documentation do not reflect the reality of the models, and I found data points issues related to bugs in the code, so for the open-source version, CelerData needs to be more consistent and reliable compared to the cloud version. Regarding CelerData's AI capabilities, I believe the governance and security need to be tested and integrated, and it is still too early in development to make a good determination. Concerning CelerData's AI capabilities, the accuracy and reliability of output depend significantly on the quality of log troubleshooting, which I believe is one of the most important parts.
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

"CelerData has positively impacted my organization by providing faster response times on reports, especially for real-time data, and I am finally able to centralize all integrated data from different systems for dashboards and reporting."
"CelerData has positively impacted my organization because we improved the production of new analytics; we improved the production by 30%."
"I appreciate CelerData for the agility we have to ingest data."
"Customer service has always been exceptional and technical support has been very quick to respond and very knowledgeable."
"Turbonomic, per its design, finds bottlenecks and, depending on how it is configured, recommends actions and takes action to resolve the bottlenecks."
"Auto load balance recommendations always keep our VMware cluster optimized."
"Customer Service: Excellent. We largely don't have to touch the product which has led to us missing out on an occasional feature."
"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."
"It has allowed me to manage over 19 sites with one person after losing two supporting staff members without a negative impact on operations."
"Customer Service is excellent; I have yet to open a ticket and not have my problem looked at right away, and 99% of the time, the issues were resolved right away."
"We have used the planning feature to retire ESXi hosts and move hosts from one datacenter to another."
 

Cons

"I have identified issues where the transportation and documentation do not reflect the reality of the models, and I found data points issues related to bugs in the code, so for the open-source version, CelerData needs to be more consistent and reliable compared to the cloud version."
"Reports could be more versatile."
"Wish the storage move accounts for possible VMware snapshots that existed on some host."
"Due to the planner feature's breadth of scenarios it can be a little confusing to get the right result for the scenario you need."
"The deployment process is a little tricky. It wasn't hard for me because I have pretty in-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, and their software runs on Kubernetes. To deploy it or upgrade it, you have to be able to follow steps and use the Kubernetes command line, or you'll need someone to come in and do it for you."
"It does take a while to figure out their way of doing things."
"We did have an issue certain build causing the database to fill up however technical support was very helpful in getting updated to a newer version to correct this issue."
"The product is administered using a web based interface. This interface was written in Adobe's Flash product which requires the Adobe Flash plugin to be installed on any device accessing it."
"A more robust reporting engine would be a huge boon to us."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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's worth the time and money investment if you can afford it."
"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."
"I consider the pricing to be high."
"Licensing is per socket, so load up on the cores rather than a lot of lower core CPUs."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
44%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business42
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CelerData?
I have no comments regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing.
What needs improvement with CelerData?
CelerData can be improved in several areas. I have identified issues where the transportation and documentation do not reflect the reality of the models, and I found data points issues related to b...
What is your primary use case for CelerData?
My main use case for CelerData is data analytics. I primarily use CelerData for data analytics at CVS Health, examining models for future campaigns and using different data types and subsets to gen...
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Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager
 

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Sample Customers

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