Optimizing IT landscapes: understanding IBM Turbonomic through Proof of Value

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Blog - January 2024: How IBM Turbonomic allows you to optimize your IT infrastructure, and achieve efficiency, scalability and agility


Today, more than ever, it is important to stay ahead of the competition. This requires not only innovation but also efficient management of resources.  

This is where IBM Turbonomic comes in. With this technology, you can not only optimize your IT infrastructure, but also enable your organization to achieve efficiency, scalability and agility.  

In this blog, we will explore the core features and transformative capabilities of IBM Turbonomic. We will uncover how this intelligent automation platform: 

  • enables businesses to maximize the value of their investments,  
  • ensures optimal performance,  
  • optimizes resource utilization,  
  • and achieves cost-effectiveness. 

With this blog, we want to show you the possibilities IBM Turbonomic to enable a seamless, data-driven, and responsive IT management. But to be able to understand its full potential and how it can change your organization's approach to IT management, let us start with explaining the basics of IBM Turbonomic. 


What is IBM Turbonomic?
 

IBM Turbonomic is a resource management and automation platform designed to optimize application performance, assure compliance, and reduce cloud costs. It can be applied across various use cases in different industries. Some common use cases for IBM Turbonomic are: 

Optimization of your  Use cases 
Public Cloud

VM rightsizing 

Storage volume configuration 

Database configuration 

Maximize RI coverage  

Optimize RI purchasing 

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Data center 

Continuous compute placement 

VM rightsizing 

continuous storage placement 

Superclusters 

Initial placement 

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Kubernetes

Container rightsizing 

Pod moves 

Cluster scaling 

Container platform planning 

SLO-driven scaling 

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Sustainable IT

Understand current footprint

Execute sustainable actions

Compare CO2e emissions

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These use cases demonstrate the versatility of IBM Turbonomic in addressing various challenges related to: 

  • cloud management,  
  • performance optimization,  
  • and cost efficiency in modern IT environments. 

Proof of Value 

You might be wondering how would this work in your environment. Softline can do this for you. You can experience first-hand what IBM Turbonomic can do in your own unique environment with our validation offer.  

Our Proof of Value process comprises the following key steps: 

  1. Defining success: Together with you, we outline clear success criteria tailored to your specific needs and objectives. 
  2. Validation: We validate the expected outcomes and establish precise metrics, to measure the value IBM Turbonomic brings to your organization. 
  3. Integration: Once all that is done, a Softline expert integrates IBM Turbonomic with one of your live environments in the cloud (AWS or Azure), ensuring a smooth and efficient connection.  
  4. Business impact & ROI: We collect data and discuss the impact of these with you. At the end we provide you with a detailed analysis of the business impact IBM Turbonomic has on your operations, accompanied by a concise Return on Investment summary. 
  5. Conclusion: To finalize the Proof of Value, Softline experts draw insightful conclusions from this Proof of Value process, summarizing the key findings and highlighting the tangible benefits for your organization to your management. 


Impact on you and your organization 

What impact does the Proof of Value have on you and your colleagues? Experience learns that we would need 2 or 3 days of your time, especially in the ”defining success” and “Conclusion” phases. For “getting started” (phases 2 & 3) and “installation review” (phase 4), which normally takes 2 to 3 weeks, we know by now that we need just 4 hours from one of your technical colleagues, to support us. 

By involving Turbonomic, you can continuously ensure optimal application performance while also minimizing costs. Organizations that have embarked on this Proof of Value journey have witnessed significant improvements in, for example, cloud spend and infrastructure utilization.  

Don't miss this opportunity to validate IBM Turbonomic's value proposition, and our expertise, in your own environment. We can support your organization in navigating the digital landscape effectively. 

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