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IBM Turbonomic vs North Cloud comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
IBM Turbonomic offers quick ROI by reducing hardware costs, optimizing resources, and decreasing operational expenses through automation and efficiency.
Sentiment score
5.2
North Cloud users saw a 25% ROI by reducing resource waste, cutting costs, and simplifying billing, saving time and effort.
I did not need more employees and was able to reduce headcount by a ratio of one to three because North Cloud performs the work that other engineers would do.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
I have seen a return on investment through time saved and achieving 10 to 30% cloud cost savings by optimizing my environment and reducing idle resource wastage.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.9
IBM Turbonomic's customer service is highly rated for its responsiveness, knowledge, and effectiveness, despite some mixed post-acquisition experiences.
Sentiment score
5.4
North Cloud's customer service is praised for friendliness, helpfulness, and responsiveness, despite occasional response delays.
We reached out during onboarding, and they were very responsive and technically helpful.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
Customer support for North Cloud is really good, as I receive responses within a timely manner.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
Customer support for North Cloud is great; they are friendly.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
IBM Turbonomic is scalable, seamlessly integrating with various environments while its licensing supports expansion, focusing on additional requirements.
Sentiment score
5.7
North Cloud offers scalable, stable solutions with efficient multi-cloud support, enhanced dashboard speed, and no reported downtime issues.
North Cloud's scalability is excellent, as it handles growth and changes in our cloud environment well.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
North Cloud is scalable in a way that when you are growing your enterprise, it grows with you.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
It supports multiple cloud accounts and business units, and handles large-scale enterprise billing data.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
IBM Turbonomic is praised for stability and robust performance, with minor update issues swiftly resolved by support.
Sentiment score
8.0
North Cloud offers reliable performance with stable uptime, efficient cost reporting, and source-based billing reliability despite minor update delays.
The output of North Cloud is very efficient and reliable, providing appropriate answers with high accuracy in cost reporting and billing source-based reliability.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
I have not seen any downtime in the tool.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
North Cloud is stable as we have not experienced any downtime or issues.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
 

Room For Improvement

IBM Turbonomic needs an improved interface, better reporting, clearer documentation, more integrations, and a stable, mobile-compatible platform.
North Cloud should expand AWS savings plans, improve multilingual support, enhance AI, and offer better customer service and integration.
Enhancing custom reporting with a more flexible report builder, drag-and-drop functionality, SQL support, and the ability to create custom KPIs per unit.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
North Cloud does not have a global search function, so I would prefer to search for a feature I want to access instead of navigating through the standard navigation structure.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
North Cloud is accurate and provides good responses, but it often lacks what we call memory.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
 

Setup Cost

IBM Turbonomic offers flexible, competitive pricing models, providing value through resource optimization and reducing hardware expenses effectively.
North Cloud offers flexible, affordable pricing and easy setup, appealing to enterprises needing quick implementation without long-term commitments.
The setup cost is low with minimal infrastructure efforts needed, as it is fully cloud-based and requires cloud account integrations, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, billing access setup, and roles and permission configurations.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
Pricing for North Cloud is acceptable at $99 per month, which is affordable.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
The pricing is affordable, and you do not need to pay for extended periods like annual payments.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
 

Valuable Features

IBM Turbonomic enhances efficiency through automation, capacity management, reporting, and planning, optimizing resource allocation and infrastructure decisions.
North Cloud provides seamless multi-cloud support, cost-saving insights, intuitive tools, and real-time analytics for effective financial management.
North Cloud has positively impacted my organization by delivering a strong ROI through reducing unnecessary cloud spending and achieving 10 to 30% in cloud cost savings.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
North Cloud has positively impacted our organization because we are aware of what we will incur in terms of the cost of using AWS or GCP. It has really helped us to save more, which was not happening in the past.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
We were able to reduce spend on our AWS bill without using any internal employee hours and without worrying about any complicated account changes.
CTO & Co-Founder at Cabinet
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Turbonomic
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
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 (10th), Cloud Analytics (1st), AIOps (16th)
North Cloud
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
10th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 5.9%, down from 12.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of North Cloud is 1.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Turbonomic5.9%
North Cloud1.2%
Other92.9%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

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.
AmandeepSingh4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
Improved cloud cost governance has enabled precise budgeting, monitoring, and waste reduction
For North Cloud's improvement, I would suggest enhancing its AI capabilities, adding advanced AI/ML features, improving real-time cost tracking to reduce the delay between cloud usage and dashboard updates, enhancing custom reporting with a more flexible report builder, drag-and-drop functionality, SQL support, and the ability to create custom KPIs per unit, as well as deeper cloud integrations beyond Azure, AWS, and GCP to Kubernetes cost tracking, improving tagging governance, and providing automatic detection of missing and incorrect cloud tags, plus AI-based tagging recommendations and a better user experience with more modern and interactive dashboards for easier navigation for non-technical users. For needed improvements, I would add that there should be easier navigation for non-technical users for the financial team and a simplified onboarding for new users, along with advanced alerting systems, smart alert thresholds using historical trends, predictive alerts, and multi-channel notifications via Slack, Teams, email, and PagerDuty.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
6%
Construction Company
30%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business41
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?
It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is set as a percentage of the consumption of some of our customers' services. The ...
What needs improvement with Turbonomic?
The implementation could be enhanced.
What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?
We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting. This helps us get a consolidated view of all customer spending into a single d...
What needs improvement with North Cloud?
North recently added support for database reservations, which would have been next on my wish list. I look forward to their menu expanding as AWS adds additional savings vehicles.
What advice do you have for others considering North Cloud?
The team is extremely helpful and communicative. Immediately upon working with them, they set up a Slack connect channel and give you a live line of communication with someone in their engineering ...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager
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Sample Customers

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