Continuous, Cost-Effective

Application Performance

IBM Turbonomic

Dynamic IT resource management for continuous hybrid

cloud optimization
As multicloud adoption accelerates…
complexity and cost are increasing

More clouds More workloads More cloud waste More uncertainty

93% of organizations have In 2024, world-wide spending Executives estimate that at 7 in 10 organizations have
a multicloud strategy.* on public cloud services is least 30% of their cloud experienced higher-than
forecast to grow 20.4% to spending is wasted.* expected cloud costs,
$678 billion.** demonstrating the need for
effective cloud planning.***

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This complexity brings new challenges

HOW DO I?
• Assure application performance to meet customer demand?

• Optimize my environment to improve efficiency without risking

performance?

• Prevent bottlenecks and correct issues before they happen and end
the firefighting?

• Enable elasticity to meet the ever-changing demands of the

business.

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#1 Job for IT is delivering and running applications that help
the business meet business objectives

Defensible IT Spending
Always know exactly what is needed to spend to deliver on IT business
To enable successful business outcomes and objectives with proof that IT is not spending more than the need.
customer experiences, IT teams must
consider:
Automation to protect the business
Spending less is meaningless if it puts the business at risk. Organizations
need automated elasticity to continuously assures application performance
at the lowest cost.

Future Proof Strategy

Future proof Kubernetes and cloud application resourcing to evolve and
grow with the changing needs of the business. Ability to match supply and
demand across hybrid cloud, multicloud, edge and beyond.

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IBM Turbonomic
Hybrid Cloud Optimization 247% ROI and <6
Manage, automate and continuously optimize your hybrid cloud
months payback

Get 30% of your engineering time back.

1 Understand Performance Needs

Assure application performance.

2 Identify Waste
Improve cloud investments by 35%

3 Automate Optimization Reduce data center refresh costs by 75%

Use less carbon by spending less on IT

Hybrid cloud Multicloud PaaS/containers

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IBM Turbonomic Key
Features

Full-stack AI-powered Operationalize Comprehensive

visualization insights elasticity integrations

Complete visualization of your applications AI-driven insights that empower teams to Operationalize elasticity to size up or down Seamlessly integrate with your
and infrastructure to stop guessing and start make informed decisions to enhance on demand to assure application organizations existing tools, enabling rapid
knowing the health of your environment efficiency without sacrificing performance performance at the lowest cost time to value

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The application
stack

Driven by ever changing demand

Performance Risk

Inefficient

Transactions | Response Time | Memory | CPU | …

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 Continuous performance and the lowest cost, automatically

Generate actions that prevent problems,

not just alerts…

With Turbonomic, applications get

exactly the resources they need when
they need them, continuously and
automatically.

• App-first, demand-based analysis

ensures actions can be safely
automated.

• Automated actions prevent

resource congestion (and cost
overruns) across the hybrid cloud
environment.

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Benefits of IBM Turbonomic

Assure application performance Optimize IT resources in real time Optimize costs

Automate processes and eliminate guess
Intelligent automation proactively identifies Application-aware analytics dynamically optimize
work in resourcing applications, freeing
bottlenecks, and takes corrective actions to resources ensuring that workloads receive the right
up IT teams to focus on strategic
enhance performance and availability amount of workload resources without over or
priorities.
under-provisioning.

Align infrastructure and application Manage hybrid and multicloud Integrate seamlessly
teams Integrations powered by a patented abstraction Turbonomic seamlessly integrates with
Unified data model aligns infrastructure, application, enable self-optimizing resource management your organization’s existing tools enabling
and DevOps teams around a single view of from your own private data centers to AWS, rapid time to value.
application and infrastructure health in real time and Azure, and Google Cloud
over time.

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World-class companies use IBM Turbonomic

Banking Financial Services Technology Insurance Healthcare Communications Consulting Consumer Goods Education Government
The IBM Efficiency that never risks Automation that Engineering, Integrations that ensure
Turbonomic performance. Ops, and App teams can trust. operationalization.

Difference Application-aware, full-stack

analytics ensure automation drives
Engineering, Ops, and App teams
always get the data they need to
Automation can be integrated with
pipelines, processes, and
efficiency but never risks confidently execute actions, then workflows. Customizable policies
performance. adopt automation at scale. ensure business context mitigates
risk.

One platform, many ways to A platform that is future-proof. It’s time you Turbo
optimize for cost and performance
Analytics can be extended to Start your journey to continuous
Supports cloud cost optimization future tech because it is grounded application performance while
across compute, volumes, in the fundamentals of IT, safely reducing cost. Try
database, Kubernetes, including matching demand to supply across Turbonomic today.
RIs/discounts. multicloud and beyond.

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 “In our organization, optimizing application
performance is a continuous process that is
beyond human scale. We see tremendous value

How does this multinational in IBM Turbonomic to help us close that gap as
much as possible within our organization.”

manufacturing firm use intelligent Matthew Koozer

Cloud Engineer, Komatsu Ltd.
automation help assure application
performance?
Read the full story

Like many other IT organizations, the Solution components:

infrastructure team at Komatsu Ltd. historically • Reduced cloud spend by
relied on disparate monitoring tools, user
complaints and manual intervention to address
over USD 650,000
performance issues. Once they implemented the
IBM® Turbonomic®
IBM Turbonomic hybrid cloud cost
optimization solution, the team was finally able • Achieved 33% savings on
to break this cycle of fighting fires. Armed with
Turbonomic’s full-stack visibility, the team at server run rates
Komatsu is now able to quickly assess potential
performance risk and identify the optimal way
to reallocate resources to eliminate that risk
without compromising performance in another
• Reduced user complaints to
layer of their technology stack. 10 tickets per year

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 IBM Turbonomic gave us the data we needed to
show the broader team that overprovisioning
would not only fail to assure performance, but
actually put performance at risk.
Nick Steensland

How does Denver Service Delivery Manager,

City and County of Denver, CO

assure the performance of the various

applications its citizens and
employees rely on every day?
Read the full story

Historically, the City of Denver’s IT Operations • 33% reduction in CPU and “We chose IBM Turbonomic Solution components:
team used disparate monitoring tools and
manual intervention to address performance RAM usage because we were looking for a
issue. There was a misconception that common language that everyone IBM® Turbonomic®
overprovisioning could assure performance.
Once they installed the IBM Turbonomic • 24x7 performance assurance of in the organization could rely on
solution, the IT Operations team finally had a 1,500 VMs as a source of truth for what we
single source of truth to understand how their need to right-size our
environment was performing. They had
concrete evidence to show app owners where environments.”
their VMs were overprovisioned. This allowed
them to reallocate resources to improve
performance and efficiency.
Nick Steensland
Service Delivery Manager, City
and County of Denver, CO

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 “The sustainability paradigm in IT rests on an
organization’s ability to achieve the right
balance between resource allocation and end-

How does BlueIT use Turbonomic

user experience. In my opinion, implementing
Turbonomic and Instana is without a doubt the
best way to right-size your infrastructure and

and Instana to assure application reduce your carbon footprint without sacrificing
performance.”

performance and cut carbon Francesco Sartini

Chief Innovation Officer, BlueIT
emissions?
Read the full story

Given the heterogeneity of their clients’ In a single day, both tools can be deployed and
start proactively identifying resizing
• With AIOps, the team is Solution components:
environments, it is critical that BlueIT Chief
Innovation Officer Francesco Sartini and his opportunities. With the help of Turbonomic and executing resourcing
Instana Observability, BlueIT has achieved a
team have tools to efficiently onboard each new
50% reduction in MTTR and a 60% reduction decisions 60% faster IBM® Instana® Observability
client and continuously optimize application
performance moving forward. Ease of
in the time required to implement a resourcing IBM Turbonomic®
action, while also reducing waste across their
deployment and time to value are key. clients’ environments. • Achieved 10% reduction in
“We have found that the initial setup of For example, one BlueIT client achieved a 10% memory and CPU over-
Turbonomic and Instana is simple and
immediate”
reduction in memory and CPU over-allocation allocation for one client
after executing Turbonomic’s AI-powered
resourcing recommendations.
Francesco Sartini,
Chief Innovation Officer, Blue IT • Reduced MTTR by 50%
across the organization

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 “When you look at the complexity of our
environment and the impact Turbonomic has
had, you can’t count the amount of time that

How does an IT team supporting over

we’ve saved by implementing Turbonomic
automated resourcing actions because we could
not execute that volume of actions without

280,000 users all over the world Turbonomic automation.”

continuously deliver performant IT Matt Lyteson

VP, CIO Hybrid Cloud Platforms, IBM

services?
Read the full story

The IBM CIO Organization began adopting Red Observability with IBM Instana Dynamic resourcing with IBM Turbonomic Solution components:
Hat OpenShift in 2019, as part of an
overarching enterprise platform-oriented
approach across IBM Z, IBM Power, x86 and • 22 tenants and growing • 3.8 TB decrease in cumulative IBM® Instana® Observability
container architectures. This meant adopting
• 1300+ hosts being monitored memory limits IBM Turbonomic®
standard platforms at enterprise scale to increase
velocity. With OpenShift, the migration to a
multiplatform with IBM Power, • 64% decrease in CPU requests
large multi-tenant environment also made it IBM Z, and Intel • 45,000 automated resourcing actions
increasingly difficult to rely on their existing • 370 critical applications observed in per month, delivering 24x7
tools and processes to manage capacity and context performance assurance
maintain optimal application density.
• 80+ websites observed with RUM
• OpenTelemetry enabled.

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 IBM Turbonomic can help you make sure you
are fully utilizing and optimizing your
infrastructure to simultaneously assure
performance and minimize cost (both
How does IBM Hursley implement financially and environmentally).
Colin Holyoake

automation in its journey to carbon Certified Datacenter Design and Sustainability

Manager, IBM Hursley

neutrality?

Read the full story

IBM’s goal is to achieve net zero greenhouse Dynamic resourcing with IBM With the help of Turbonomic, Solution components:
gas emissions by the year 2030. The Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic solution helps the IBM optimized
Hursley team identify opportunities to rebalance 6,000 IBM Turbonomic®
resources across the IBM Hursley data center
and maximize their utilization of their existing
• Reduces performance risk virtual systems IBM® Instana® Observability
infrastructure without sacrificing performance. across the data center
By extending the use of their existing Those who rely on IBM Hursley’s
infrastructure, the IBM Hursley team avoids • Extends the lifespan of existing
unnecessary expenditures on new hardware as data center include
well as the operational expense to power and infrastructure and reduces 11,000
cool it. environmental impact
developers

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