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IBM Turbonomic

Application Resource Management

Assure application performance and eliminate cloud waste

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Prevent performance issues & save money automatically, in real time

Assure Application Performance

Capita assures the performance of 11,100 Workloads across a hybrid cloud deployment.

Optimize Resource Utilization

Robabank reduced their hardware consumption by 23%.

Automatically & In Real-Time

Carhartt achieved a 25% improvement in application performance while freeing up the team to further innovation.

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Are Traditional Methods Of Maintaining Application Performance Affecting Your Success?

It’s Inconsistent

Demand is always fluctuating and matching resource supply is a constant struggle often beyond human scale.

It's Inefficient 

Overprovisioning resources is a common approach that doesn’t always work and still requires constant oversight.

It's Expensive

Cloud vendors charge by the second making overprovisioning even more expensive.

Key Features

Real-Time Performance Optimization

Prevents issues before they occur with real-time analysis and automatic resource allocations.

Optimize Resource Utilization

Full-stack analysis of both application and resource layers enables optimal workload allocation to assure performance with minimalized overhead.

Maximize Cloud Savings

Automatically tracks cloud offerings and recommends (or even enacts) cost-saving solutions.

Low Maintenance

Fully automated analysis and remedial actions minimize manual overhead.

Rapid Deployment

An agentless deployment process integrates into your existing environment to produce results within hours.

Simulate Migration Plans

Simulate full migration plans and find optimal cloud configurations for your assets before you migrate.

Significant ROI

Ideal Optimization

Turbonomic AI driven automation optimizes workloads, assures performance and minimizes manual overhead to deliver significant ROI in months.

Cost Effective

Turbonomic enabled Providence Health to save over 2 million USD throughout their cloud migration process.

Time Efficient

JB Hunt freed up 650 hours over 1 year through Turbonomic automatically executing 2,000 remedial actions.

Turbonomic Under The Hood

Desired State

How Turbonomic measures the balance between performance and utilization

Turbonomic defines the “Desired State” as an optimal balance between application performance and resource utilization.

Turbonomic measures application performance in terms of “delay” or the response time of applications. If we were to chart delay vs utilization, we would see a curve where up to a certain point, increasing resource utilization generates minimal increases in delay. However, a critical threshold exists, after which even small increases in utilization will result in unacceptable performance degradation. Right before this critical threshold is where Turbonomic’s “Desired State” sits, representing an optimal balance between performance and utilization.

To maintain the “Desired State”, Turbonomic uses an AI-powered decision engine to constantly monitor and analyze the entire IT stack, then leverage this data to optimize the allocation of infrastructure resources and workloads in real-time, preventing performance issues before they occur. 

The Market

How Turbonomic optimizes resource allocation with market principles

Turbonomic envisions the entire IT stack as a supply-and-demand model where infrastructure resources are bought and sold at a market price. A host machine buys physical space, power, and cooling from a data center, then sells CPU cycles and memory to VMs. VMs then sell vCPU and vMem to containers which then, in turn, sell resources to applications.

These abstractions open the whole spectrum of the environment to a single mode of analysis — market analysis. Resources and services can be priced to reflect changes in supply and demand, and pricing can drive resource allocation decisions. For example, a bottleneck (excess demand over supply) raises prices for a given resource. Applications competing for that same resource can lower costs by shifting their workloads to other resource suppliers, evening out demand across the environment and resolving the bottleneck.

Risk Index

How Turbonomic assigns cost to supply

Turbonomic uses the Risk Index as a pricing mechanism for resources in its market model. The Risk Index reflects the level of resource utilization, consumer delay, and risk to Quality of Service (QoS) associated with a given resource. Turbonomic constantly monitors and adjusts the Risk Index to ensure it stays within acceptable bounds.

By analyzing the full range of buyer/seller relationships, Turbonomic determines the most economical transactions available and strives to keep the cost of resources competitive. This dynamic approach to workload management allows Turbonomic to optimize workload distribution and drive the virtual environment towards the desired state.

Supply Chain

How Turbonomic models supply & demand within the IT stack

Turbonomic models your environment using a market-based approach, where different entities are mapped to the supply chain to manage the workloads they support. It discovers various entities via the targets added, such as VMs, hosts, datastores, applications for hypervisor targets, and services, namespaces, containers, container pods, and nodes for Kubernetes targets.

These entities form a chain of supply and demand, where some provide resources and others consume them. Turbonomic stitches these entities together by connecting them, allowing it to manage the environment’s workload distribution effectively.

Why KCM Solutions?

At KCM Solutions, we like to keep things simple and to the point.
We prioritize speed, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility in projects to help our clients succeed in today’s ever-changing and ever-more competitive IT landscape. Our team of certified architects has, for over 15 years, consistently leveraged the latest technologies from partners such as IBM to deliver real-world solutions and results for organizations large and small across North America.

Contact Us

Initial Consultation

We’ll assess your environment and present solutions with Turbonomic to address the specific challenges you face.

Solution Demo 

Get Turbonomic into your hands with our complimentary Proof Of Value (POV) and experience the value it can deliver firsthand in your environment.

Full implementation

Fully Integrate Turbonomic into your environment and begin realising the true potential of AI automated application resource management.

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What Customers Say

‘IBM Turbonomic’s full-stack visibility has not only helped us achieve a 15% – 23% hardware reduction. It has also allowed us to enhance our customer experience by reducing our time to market and improving application response time.’

Colin Chatelier Manager of Storage and Compute, Rabobank

“Turbonomic’s automated actions not only improve performance, but they free up the team’s resources. The team now has more time to innovate rather than focusing on keeping the lights on.”

Gary Prindle Senior Systems Engineer, Carhartt

“Because we had the partnership with Turbonomic, it expedited our ability to execute. It helped us tell the story and gave us better data. Instead of it being a two- or three-year journey for people to start to conceptualize that cloud is elastic, we showed how we could use the cloud to better manage costs and performance.”

Bryan de Boer Executive Director, Providence

FAQ

Turbonomic can break down technology silos by providing a unified platform for managing the entire IT environment, fostering better communication and collaboration between teams, and using data-driven insights to align around shared goals. To use Turbonomic with siloed teams, it’s important to involve all relevant teams in the deployment and management process and ensure that everyone is on the same page.

No, you don’t have to rip and replace your existing APM tools to use Turbonomic. Turbonomic provides complementary functionality, such as performance optimization and capacity planning for multi-cloud and multi-platform environments. It can work alongside other APM tools to provide a more comprehensive view of your IT environment and help ensure that your applications and infrastructure are performing optimally.

Yes, Turbonomic can benefit small organizations without application monitoring. It provides a comprehensive solution for managing IT performance, compliance and cost, and offers real-time actionable insights, easy-to-use interface, and automated workflows. Even without specialized skills, small organizations can quickly benefit from Turbonomic’s full-featured IT optimization.

Turbonomic provides added value to your current use of Cloud Health by offering real-time, automated optimization for both performance and cost management in your cloud infrastructure. While Cloud Health provides cost reporting and management, Turbonomic goes a step further by analyzing and adjusting your entire IT stack in real-time to prevent issues, maintain performance, and ensure optimal utilization of resources for both performance and cost objectives.

 Turbonomic can run on multiple cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments. It also provides a SaaS offering, so you can run it as a cloud-hosted service without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. So you can choose the deployment option that best meets your needs, whether it be on-premises, in a public cloud, or as a SaaS offering.

Turbonomic stores its data in a database that can be either on-premises or hosted in the cloud, using databases such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle. The data includes information about the IT environment, resource utilization, performance metrics, and more to provide optimization and management.

Simple to set up and can see insights in a couple of hours

  • Turbonomic excels in environments of all sizes and scales exceptionally well with high workload volumes. 
  • Generally, Turbonomic excels in large scale environments of over 250 workloads

Work with our team

As IBM Turbonomic partners, the team at KCM Solutions will help you get started quickly and effortlessly.

We will help you re-model you current processes to be used in Turbonomic, giving you a functional base.

Then, we will work with you to capitalize on all its advanced features and get insights far beyond what human powered analysis can do.

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