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IBM Turbonomic vs Microsoft Azure portal comparison

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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 (2nd), Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), IT Financial Management (3rd), IT Operations Analytics (9th), Cloud Analytics (1st), Cloud Cost Management (3rd), AIOps (18th)
Microsoft Azure portal
Ranking in Cloud Management
45th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Dan Ambrose - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer 4 at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Helps visibility, bridges the data gap, and frees up time
We use IBM Turbonomic in a hybrid cloud environment. Although it supports multi-cloud capabilities, we currently operate in a single-cloud setting. Turbonomic offers visibility into our environment's performance, spanning across applications, underlying infrastructure, and protection resources. The visibility and analytics help to bridge the data gap between disparate IT teams such as applications and infrastructure. This is important for awareness collaboration, cost saving, and helping to design and improve our application. Enhanced visibility and data analytics have contributed to a significant reduction in our mean time to resolve. Tools like Turbonomic provide crucial visualization and insights, empowering us to make data-driven decisions instead of relying on assumptions as we did before. This newfound transparency translates to a massive improvement, going from complete darkness to having a clear 100 percent view of the situation. Although our applications are not optimized for the cloud we have seen some improvement in response time. IBM Turbonomic empowers us to achieve more with fewer people thanks to automation. Previously, customers frequently contacted us requesting resource increases to resolve issues. Now, we have a tool that allows us to objectively assess their needs, leading to a deeper understanding of our applications. This solution also generates significant cost savings in the cloud and optimizes hardware utilization within our data centers. Its AI algorithm intelligently allocates servers on hosts, maximizing efficiency without compromising performance. By fine-tuning resource allocation without causing performance bottlenecks, Turbonomic extends the lifespan of existing hardware, postponing the need for new purchases. This effectively stretches our capital expenditure budget. We started to see the benefits of IBM Turbonomic within the first 60 days. IBM is a fantastic partner. Their tech support has been outstanding, and the product itself is excellent - a very solid offering. By automating resource management with Turbonomic, our engineers are freed up to focus on more strategic initiatives like innovation and ongoing organizational projects. Previously, manually adding resources was a time-consuming process that interrupted workflows. Now, automation handles scaling efficiently, saving us thousands of man-hours and significant costs. It has illuminated the need for SetOps. It has highlighted areas of overspending, and the actions we've taken have demonstrated significant cost savings. IBM Turbonomic has positively impacted our overall application performance. IBM Turbonomic has helped reduce both CAPEX and OPEX. It has also significantly reduced cloud build times.
Duy AnhMai - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner at Heineken
Integrated data storage has supported large teams and simplified connections with other tools
The speed and performance are satisfactory to me, and overall everything meets my needs. I do not have specific improvements in mind that Microsoft Azure portal needs to implement. Regarding AI products, I am uncertain about their capabilities. Both Microsoft Azure portal and AWS offer similar AI deployment options. Currently, my organization does not use AI products in Microsoft Azure portal or another cloud platform, so I cannot comment further on this aspect.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Turbonomic is an excellent product as far as we are concerned for managing the pod sizes and determining the best sizing for those pods."
"It helps us get a consolidated view of all customer spending into a single dashboard, allowing us to identify opportunities to improve their current spending."
"It has saved us from buying lots of hardware that we would have bought if it weren't for Turbonomic."
"Automation, policies, and reports have made a lot of previously manual work now either more efficient or completely automated."
"It has allowed our IT organization to keep investments in hardware flat for a projected three year period, and we have seen a 30% performance improvement overall."
"It has increased the utilization of our hosts without sacrificing performance."
"We have seen a 30% performance improvement overall."
"On-premises, one advantage I find particularly appealing is the ability to create policies for automatic CPU and memory scaling based on demand."
"My personal opinion is that the ecosystem of Microsoft is very large, and I can use many platforms related to Microsoft, such as Microsoft Power Platform, which makes it easy to integrate with other Microsoft-related platforms."
 

Cons

"Every once in a while when we perform an upgrade, it wipes out our setting."
"Alert emails could be more comprehensive."
"The only issue I had in the past is the fact that the manager was equipped with only one hard disk so excessive logging could cause an issue."
"There are charts and graphs in the dashboard that are confusing to read and understand."
"It does not fully understand our DR/SRM (active/standby) infrastructure as we have hosts with nothing on them."
"When upgrading prior versions, I sometimes lost prior performance data. Even support was not able to retrieve it."
"Turbonomic can modernize the look and feel, making it more user-friendly to access and obtain information."
"Initial setup was complex to get reports we wanted."
"When comparing Microsoft Azure portal with AWS, the cost of Microsoft Azure is higher than AWS."
 

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."
"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."
"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 is an endpoint type license, which is fine. It is not overly expensive."
"What I can advise is to trial the product, taking advantage of the Turbonomic pre-sales implemention support and kickstart training."
"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."
"I'm not involved in any of the billing, but my understanding is that is fairly expensive."
"IBM Turbonomic is an investment that we believe will deliver positive returns."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
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Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager
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