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IBM Turbonomic vs North Cloud comparison

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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
6.0
North Cloud reduces Azure spending by up to 30%, improving efficiency and providing quick, straightforward savings with minimal idle wastage.
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
6.3
North Cloud's customer service is praised for being reliable, timely, and friendly, enhancing user experience despite occasional delays.
We reached out during onboarding, and they were very responsive and technically helpful.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
Customer support is reliable.
Founder, Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Customer support for North Cloud is really good, as I receive responses within a timely manner.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
 

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
5.6
North Cloud efficiently manages enterprise data growth, impressing users with scalability, performance, reliability, and stable pricing in multi-cloud contexts.
North Cloud is scalable in a way that when you are growing your enterprise, it grows with you.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
North Cloud's scalability is excellent, as it handles growth and changes in our cloud environment well.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
It is optimized for multi-accounts and multi-cloud environments, with a better caching mechanism for frequent queries.
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
8.2
North Cloud excels in stability, offering reliable cost management, accurate billing, and scalability, with minimal synchronization delays.
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
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
 

Room For Improvement

IBM Turbonomic needs an improved interface, better reporting, clearer documentation, more integrations, and a stable, mobile-compatible platform.
North Cloud requires improved integrations, flexibility, support, and features to enhance user experience and operational efficiency.
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
This isn't a limitation on the North side, as they were able to rapidly add support for the existing database savings plans offerings when they launched, but more of an AWS limitation.
Director of Engineering at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
I would like to see additional savings for RDS and data transfer, as that would help my organization.
CTO & Co-Founder at Cabinet
 

Setup Cost

IBM Turbonomic offers flexible, competitive pricing models, providing value through resource optimization and reducing hardware expenses effectively.
North Cloud offers straightforward, flexible pricing with easy integration, accommodating various business needs without long-term commitments.
Pricing for North Cloud is acceptable at $99 per month, which is affordable.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
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
With our North Cloud account, we can take advantage of cost savings without committing to a contract, which makes it flexible for seasons when usage fluctuates.
Co-Founder at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

IBM Turbonomic enhances efficiency through automation, capacity management, reporting, and planning, optimizing resource allocation and infrastructure decisions.
North Cloud offers efficient cost management and analytics with customizable dashboards, AI-driven automation, and seamless cloud integration.
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
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
The unique aspect of the real-time analytics feature is that instead of logging into Google Cloud Platform, I can log into North Cloud and see exactly how the usage breaks down across CPU, RAM, storage, and network components.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Turbonomic
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
3rd
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 (3rd), IT Operations Analytics (9th), Cloud Analytics (1st), AIOps (18th)
North Cloud
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
16th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 5.4%, down from 8.7% 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 Turbonomic5.4%
North Cloud1.2%
Other93.4%
Cloud Cost Management
 

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.
Amandeep Pawar - 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
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business42
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with North Cloud?
I think North Cloud can be improved by enhancing what we call client support. Currently, when you need to chat with an agent, you have to go through the chatbot, which sometimes tries to solve your...
What is your primary use case for North Cloud?
I use North Cloud to optimize AWS costs and to receive alerts when costs become too high, and also to integrate it with FinOps, which helps me catch costs across the clouds I use. For example, we h...
What advice do you have for others considering North Cloud?
My advice to others looking into using North Cloud is that if you have the budget and you want to optimize the cost of AWS and Google Cloud and need a tool that does not require technical knowledge...
 

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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