IBM Turbonomic Services & Support

Cloud resource management and optimisation

If your applications run across complex hybrid and multicloud environments, you’ll need a solution that guarantees performance while keeping costs under control. IBM Turbonomic is an AI-powered Application Resource Management (ARM) platform that can automatically optimise cloud and IT infrastructure in real time. It does this by dynamically allocating resources, ensuring that your applications always perform at their best while reducing waste, costs, and environmental impact.

What is IBM Turbonomic?

IBM Turbonomic is an AI-driven platform that continuously analyses resource supply and demand across your entire IT infrastructure – from on-premise data centres to hybrid and multicloud environments. It acts like a real-time marketplace, balancing workloads, cost, and performance without the need for manual intervention.

Key benefits include:

• Guaranteed Performance: applications always get the CPU, memory, and storage they need.
• Cost Savings: eliminate over-provisioning and cut cloud spend by up to 33%.
• Sustainability: reduce wasted energy and align with environmental goals.
• Automation: proactive actions ensure efficiency without relying on manual resource allocation.
• Visibility: from apps to infrastructure, get full-stack insights to guide decisions.

How Does IBM Turbonomic Work?

Think of your IT environment as a marketplace. Your applications are the buyers, completing for resources like CPU, memory, and storage. IBM Turbonomic acts as the broker – constantly negotiating supply and demand across your cloud, private data centres, and hybrid environments.

As workloads shift and costs fluctuate, Turbonomic’s economic scheduling engine dynamically reallocates resources in real time. This results in:

• Applications getting what they need, when they need it.
• Costs staying aligned with actual usage.
• IT performance remaining balanced, efficient, and scalable.

Turbonomic also integrates with APM tools such as New Relic, AppDynamics, and Instana, making your performance insights even more powerful.

What is IBM Turbonomic used for?

• Optimising Application Performance: Ensures your applications always get the resources they require, preventing slowdowns or outages.
• Cost Management: Minimises cloud and infrastructure spend by eliminating overprovisioning and aligning costs with actual usage.
• Automation: Replaces manual resource management with intelligent automation, freeing IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives.
• Supporting Hybrid and Multicloud: Seamlessly manages resources across on-premises, public, private, hybrid, and multicloud environments.

Watch this video from IBM for an overview of what Turbonomic is and how it is used for Application Performance Management.

The Importance of Cloud Cost Optimisation

Cloud cost optimisation has become essential as organisations increasingly adopt complex, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments with providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Without intelligent management, businesses risk over-provisioning resources, leading to unnecessary costs and inefficiencies. Organisations are experiencing over 30% of annual cloud spend being wasted. The more complex applications you have running in your business, the more you need them to perform at their best. If they don’t, it can put strain on your teams. To avoid disruption, you may end up putting more resources into your cloud environment than necessary and this can impact your cloud bill and ROI.

IBM Turbonomic helps you:

• Right-size resources across hybrid and multicloud environments.
• Minimise overprovisioning and unnecessary cloud spend.
• Improve sustainability with reduced carbon emissions.
• Realise significant ROI (up to 471% over three years).

IBM Turbonomic, with its hybrid cloud cost optimsiation platform, addresses these challenges by leveraging AI-powered automation to continuously analyse and optimise resource allocation in real time, ensuring that applications receive the resources they need—no more, no less—while reducing waste and cutting cloud spend by up to 33%. This approach not only improves financial efficiency but also supports sustainability goals by minimising the environmental impact of IT operations.

In addition to Turbonomic, IBM offers a suite of optimisation tools and integrations, such as support for Kubernetes, OpenShift, and leading application performance monitoring solutions. These capabilities enable organisations to automate critical actions, manage costs across diverse environments, and maintain governance with policy-driven controls. By operationalising cloud cost management, IBM’s optimisation platforms empower IT, cloud, and FinOps teams to achieve tangible, lasting outcomes—such as a 471% ROI over three years—while enhancing agility, scalability, and business performance.

Speak to us today about how DeeperThanBlue make your hybrid and multicloud environments more efficient.