ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations vs IBM Turbonomic comparison

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ExtraHop Networks and IBM are both solutions in the IT Operations Analytics category. ExtraHop Networks is ranked #13, while IBM is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.3. ExtraHop Networks holds a 4.2% mindshare in IOA, compared to IBM’s 3.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of ExtraHop Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

ExtraHop Reveal(x) and IBM Turbonomic are key players in IT operations management. ExtraHop shines with security-focused analytics, while Turbonomic's strength lies in extensive features and automation, justifying its cost for many users.

Features: ExtraHop Reveal(x) offers real-time threat detection, intelligent automated responses, and detailed packet-level analysis for enhanced visibility and security. IBM Turbonomic provides AI-driven resource management, automatic workload optimization for application performance, and cost efficiency, prioritizing operational efficiency.

Room for Improvement: ExtraHop can expand on its operational features beyond security to appeal to broader IT needs, reduce complexity in its advanced threat detection settings, and integrate more with existing IT ecosystems. IBM Turbonomic could improve its user interface to be more intuitive for first-time users, streamline integration processes with third-party applications, and offer more transparent pricing models.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ExtraHop Reveal(x) enables quick deployment with strong customer support throughout the setup process. IBM Turbonomic offers adequate customer assistance, though its deployment process is more involved due to its extensive configuration options, aligning with its feature-rich nature.

Pricing and ROI: ExtraHop Reveal(x) is competitively priced, showing favorable ROI, especially in security. IBM Turbonomic has higher setup costs but its advanced features can provide greater ROI by optimizing resources and reducing operational overhead, tailored to specific operational needs.

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Categories and Ranking

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Ranking in IT Operations Analytics

13th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (71st), Network Diagnostics (10th), Network Packet Capture (6th)

IBM Turbonomic

Ranking in IT Operations Analytics

9th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

205

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (2nd), Cloud Management (4th), Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), IT Financial Management (1st), Cloud Analytics (1st), Cloud Cost Management (3rd), AIOps (17th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations is 4.2%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 3.4%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
IBM Turbonomic	3.4%
ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations	4.2%
Other	92.4%

IT Operations Analytics

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Out West

Project Manager and IT Management Consultant at a integrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

Great for identifying application interdependencies with helpful support but needs better visualizations

We're just trying to identify the application interdependencies, which normally reside on different servers, including web servers, database servers, enterprise service bus, et cetera, up to your presentation layer before we start moving stuff around. Normally, the reason why we use these tools is to understand what assets we have, where they're deployed, and how they enter and operate before we decide to go move something from point A to point B. The solution is going to allow me to establish a wave or migration plan where you have different waves of migration and then you actually have move groups to try and get your application moved from A to B seamlessly. A to B could be on-premise to on-premise. It could be on-premise to cloud. Et cetera. The solution can tell me what components can I deploy, for example, into a cloud space, without having to refactor my applications since that can be quite time-consuming and costly.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's a must-have solution for large IT Operations, providing the ability to analyze infrastructure and application-related performance and data from the wire perspective."

"Not only can you look at the protocol import level. It also has a live PCAP analysis."

"The most valuable feature is the way it handles data, from Layer 2 up to Layer 7. We can see everything that happens in the network."

"There are many valuable features in this product, but probably the biggest is the customization capability it has."

"ExtraHop is far ahead of anything comparable in the industry."

"You cannot hide from the wire; all truth lives in the packets, and ExtraHop gets them to talk!"

"This is a must-try product."

"This solution is more applications reference architecture focused. Its benefit is that it specializes in that space."

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"Customer Service: Excellent. Technical Support: Excellent."

"VMTurbo Operations Manager has given myself and my staff more time to focus on other projects and tasks as well as improved overall performance of the virtual environment."

"With a high memory contention environment Turbonomic has been invaluable in maintaining excellent performance across all of our clusters."

"Improvements for performance or growth can be executed without human interference."

"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."

"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."

"It has allowed me to manage over 19 sites with one person after losing two supporting staff members without a negative impact on operations."

"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."

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Cons

"Additional out-of-the-box solutions and use cases would be nice."

"There is room for improvement in the security part. They have a new solution, ExtraHop Reveal(x), and I think it needs improvement."

"I would improve the Rule-Based Access Control (RBAC) by providing granular access control to the data."

"This solution would be improved if it had the ability to retain data longer."

"The solution could get more aggressive in the discounting of the overall cost."

"The improvement that would make the most impact would be expanding on the new EXA big data back end."

"We'd like to see a local presence within the region in order to have seamless service whether it's the support, the implementation, or professional services."

"They either have to go broad or decide what their bread and butter is and get really good at that."

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"After running this solution in production for a year, we may want a more granular approach to how we utilize the product because we are planning to use some of its metrics to feed into our financial system."

"They could do with a little less UI clutter."

"There is an area where new workloads can be created and placed. I've had trouble with that feature and find it easier to create new machines directly in vCenter and let it get the address by Turbonomic after the fact."

"The planning and costing areas could be a little bit more detailed."

"Occasionally after changes in our environment, we often needed to restart the Tomcat service on the instance."

"It would be good for Turbonomic, on their side, to integrate with other companies like AppDynamics or SolarWinds or other monitoring softwares. I feel that the actual monitoring of applications, mixed in with their abilities, would help. That would be the case wherever Turbonomic lacks the ability to monitor an application or in cases where applications are so customized that it's not going to be able to handle them. There is monitoring that you can do with scripting that you may not be able to do with Turbonomic."

"I do not like Turbonomic's new licensing model. The previous model was pretty straightforward, whereas the new model incorporates what most of the vendors are doing now with cores and utilization. Our pricing under the new model will go up quite a bit. Before, it was pretty straightforward, easy to understand, and reasonable."

"The flash interface looks dated and is a little cluttered making navigating the portal less than optimal."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of this solution for our environment is about £650,000 ($855,000 USD) for three years."

"The pricing is fair considering the value provided."

"The pricing is higher than other solutions, but with such good features, I think it's worth 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."

"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."

"Contact the Turbonomic sales team, explain your needs and what you're looking to monitor. They will get a pre-sales SE on the phone and together work up a very accurate quote."

"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."

"I'm not involved in any of the billing, but my understanding is that is fairly expensive."

"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 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."

"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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	42
Midsize Enterprise	57
Large Enterprise	147

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Overview

ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations leverages wire data analytics to provide valuable insights across all network layers. Offering auto-discovery, live PCAP analysis, and customizable dashboards, it empowers IT teams with enhanced application analysis and security detections.

Focusing on wire data analytics from Layer 2 to Layer 7, ExtraHop Reveal(x) delivers application analysis, security anomaly monitoring, and real-time traffic analysis. With plug-and-play deployment and minimal administration, it facilitates seamless integration. Users benefit from its comprehensive network performance evaluation, insightful network topology mapping, and capabilities like auto-discovery. Despite room for enhancement in industry-specific solutions, visualizations, and security features, its extensive programmability supports diverse IT operations needs. It is perfect for monitoring enterprise applications and ensuring efficient network security and operations.

What are the key features of ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations?

Wire Data Analytics: Analyzes data from Layer 2 to 7 for comprehensive insights into network performance.
Application Analysis: Offers deep analysis of applications to optimize performance and resolve issues quickly.
Security Detections: Provides robust anomaly detection for enhanced network security.
Customizable Dashboards: Users can tailor dashboards for specific monitoring needs.
Plug-and-Play Deployment: Ensures easy setup and integration with existing infrastructure.

What benefits and ROI should users look for in reviews?

Network Performance Insights: Provides detailed insights to improve network efficiency and performance.
Real-Time Traffic Analysis: Enables quick response to network anomalies with real-time data.
Enhanced Security Monitoring: Strengthens security through comprehensive anomaly detection.
Efficient Problem Resolution: Facilitates identification of root causes for rapid issue resolution.
Reduced Administrative Overhead: Requires minimal administration with an easy-to-deploy configuration.

ExtraHop Reveal(x) is implemented in industries requiring detailed IT infrastructure monitoring, enterprise application tracking, and network security evaluation. It aids in identifying device misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and analyzing IT component interactions to ensure secure and efficient operations.

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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.

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Alaska Airlines, bet365, Concur, McKesson, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Practice Fusion, Seattle Children's Hospital, Steward Health Care System

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

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