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IBM Turbonomic vs YaRKEN comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Turbonomic
Ranking in IT Financial 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 Operations Analytics (9th), Cloud Analytics (1st), Cloud Cost Management (3rd), AIOps (18th)
YaRKEN
Ranking in IT Financial Management
1st
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the IT Financial Management category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 20.1%, up from 19.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of YaRKEN is 12.7%, up from 12.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Financial Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
YaRKEN12.7%
IBM Turbonomic20.1%
Other67.2%
IT Financial 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.
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Associate technical desktop support at Digitaltrack soluctions Pvt. ltd
Targeted phishing simulations have strengthened employee awareness and reduced human error risk
The best features YaRKEN offers are phishing simulations, customizable security awareness trainings, detailed reporting, user risk scoring, and campaign automation.I find myself relying the most on phishing simulations because they provide a realistic way to assess user behavior, identify high-risk employees, and improve awareness through targeted training. One standout feature of YaRKEN is the detailed reporting and user risk scoring, which helps security teams measure progress and focus training where it is needed most. YaRKEN has positively impacted my organization by improving employee awareness, reducing phishing susceptibility, strengthening the organization's security culture, and helping to lower the risk of human error-related security incidents.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Overall, Turbonomic has had a positive effect on our application performance, helping on many different levels, including toward the resolution of problems and even flat out preventing problems from happening in the first place."
"Customer Service: Great. Always very helpful, above and beyond most companies."
"We no longer have to continuously monitor our virtual environment through multiple interfaces to discover issues impairing performance, as we now receive three separate reports every morning, all from a single product and all visible from a single pane of glass."
"It has saved us from purchasing new hardware in four regional offices and had us extend the service for two years, instead of buying new servers (HPE Gen8 and Gen9 servers running on fifth year)."
"It has helped us to show real resource usage in order to justify or deny application owner requests for additional resources, and has helped us to rightsize our VMs to reclaim wasted CPU, memory, and disk space so we can avoid additional hardware procurement."
"Customer service and support are one of the tops in the industry."
"Turbonomic is hands down one of the best products; it does a really excellent job of reporting, handling placement, measuring resources, and increasing or decreasing those resources, and overall the product just sells itself while being very helpful in the cloud and on-premise."
"YaRKEN has positively impacted my organization by improving employee awareness, reducing phishing susceptibility, strengthening the organization's security culture, and helping to lower the risk of human error-related security incidents."
 

Cons

"I have found the interface not to be intuitive."
"Initially the GUI was difficult to follow and find where things are. It's gotten better but the GUI could still use some work to make certain functions more obvious."
"GUI can be more user friendly."
"Alert emails could be more comprehensive."
"Additional interfaces would be helpful."
"The interface has so much to offer, it is a bit complex and there is a learning curve."
"The reporting needs to be improved."
"Reports: Have a wider variety of canned reports ready to go."
"YaRKEN could be improved with more training content, deeper third-party integrations, enhanced reporting customization, and a more intuitive administration interface."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I'm not involved in any of the billing, but my understanding is that is fairly expensive."
"The product is fairly priced right now. Given its capabilities, it is excellently priced. We think that the product will become self-funding because we will be able to maximize our resources, which will help us from a capacity perspective. That should save us money in the long run."
"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."
"I have not seen Turbonomic's new pricing since IBM purchased it. When we were looking at it in my previous company before IBM's purchase, it was compatible with other tools."
"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."
"It is an endpoint type license, which is fine. It is not overly expensive."
"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."
"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%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
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Company Size

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Small Business42
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
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What needs improvement with YaRKEN?
I measure improvements by tracking phishing click rates, training completion rates, repeat offender trends, and the number of reported phishing emails, all of which have shown steady improvement ov...
What is your primary use case for YaRKEN?
My main use case for YaRKEN at Track Solutions is for cybersecurity awareness training, phishing simulation, and measuring employee security awareness across the organization.I run simulated phishi...
What advice do you have for others considering YaRKEN?
Regarding YaRKEN's AI capabilities, its governance and security are strong with appropriate access controls, secure handling of training data, and features that support compliance and user privacy....
 

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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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