IBM Turbonomic

Cloud optimisation

Cloud resource management and optimisation

If your applications run across complex hybrid and multicloud environments, there is a solution that guarantees cloud optimisation and improved performance.

IBM Turbonomic is an AI-powered Application Resource Management (ARM) platform designed to automatically and proactively optimise the performance and cost of IT infrastructure across public, private, private data centres, and hybrid cloud environments. It ensures applications are always available and performing at their best by dynamically allocating resources in real time, reducing both financial and environmental impact.

Key benefits of Application Performance Management with IBM Turbonomic

Reduced IT Costs

Achieve up to 33% savings on cloud spend and up to 75% on infrastructure costs.

Improved ROI

Organisations have realised up to 471% return on investment over three years.

Enhanced Efficiency

Automates resource optimisation, saving IT personnel up to 50 hours per month.

Business Agility

Enables faster time to market and improved customer experience by preventing performance bottlenecks.

Sustainability

Reduces resource waste and supports environmental goals by using only what is required.

Full-Stack Visibility

Provides comprehensive insights from applications down to infrastructure, enabling better decision-making

Application Performance Management from DeeperThanBlue

As an IBM Business Partner, DeeperThanBlue has access to a wealth of expertise within our own team and from IBM to help our customers with Application Performance Management using IBM Turbonomic. We work with you to make your cloud stack smooth, effective and high-performing. With our strategic technology partnerships and our in-depth knowledge of the cloud technology landscape, we help your business grow and meet your objectives with our cloud strategies and cloud implementation.

How does IBM Turbonomic work?

Think of your IT environment as a market. Your applications are customers looking for resources such as CPU, memory and storage which are provided by sellers. Everything is available with an associated cost in the form of a virtual currency. Turbonomic acts as a middleman, seeking the resources, comparing and negotiating costs across all tiers of the IT environment, from on-premise data centres to cloud infrastructures.

As in any marketplace, supply and demand changes and costs fluctuate, so as demand for resources changes, Turbonomic’s economic scheduling engine dynamically adjusts allocations in real time, ensuring applications always receive the resources they need while minimising waste and cost.

The platform continuously monitors resource utilisation and application performance, analysing real-time and historical data to recommend or execute optimisation actions automatically.

This closed-loop system means Turbonomic proactively keeps your infrastructure in a desired state, balancing efficiency and performance without manual intervention, and scaling resources as needed to support business growth and agility. It will rationalise your complex cloud estate into a supply chain of computer resources. You receive recommendations on how to optimise your cloud estate, which can be automated through the platform or done manually.

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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 overprovisioning 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, 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.

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Why IBM Turbonomic is right for your business

One of the most significant benefits of the cloud has been the ability to boost efficiency across your business. But things are getting complex. As technology continues to scale and more apps are required by different teams across your organisation, it’s becoming difficult, impractical and costly for your cloud operations teams to stay on top of it.

Moreover, your cloud and application operation teams may be disparate within your organisation and have responsibilities for different apps and services across your cloud estate. Often you’re dealing with conflicting views on how to approach resource allocation. This can lead to further cloud application inefficiencies.

With IBM Turbonomic, you have a unified view of resource allocation across your entire organisation’s cloud estate. You can automate applications in real-time to ensure the most efficient use of your resources and apps. Plus, you’ll save on infrastructure costs and cloud spend, and you can boost your ROI.

You even have the power to enhance your environmental credentials too. Turbonomic powers climate insights within your cloud efficiency models. This means that compute resizing actions can be calculated into carbon footprint savings helping to drive your sustainability agenda.

It can also be integrated with leading application performance monitoring (APM) solutions, including New Relic, App Dynamics and Instana to further enhance data and insights across your cloud estate.

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IBM Turbonomic Application Performance Management FAQs

What is application performance monitoring?

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) refers to the process of tracking and managing the performance and availability of software applications. It involves collecting metrics such as response times, error rates, and throughput to ensure applications run smoothly and meet user expectations. APM tools help identify performance bottlenecks, detect anomalies, and provide insights into the root causes of issues, enabling faster resolution and improved user experience. IBM Turbonomic, for example, integrates APM by continuously analyzing application demand and automatically allocating resources to maintain optimal performance.

How to measure application performance?

Application performance is typically measured using key metrics such as response time (how long it takes for an application to respond to a request), throughput (the number of transactions processed in a given time), error rate (frequency of failed transactions), and resource utilization (CPU, memory, disk, and network usage). Tools like IBM Turbonomic enhance this by using real-time data and AI-driven analytics to correlate application performance with infrastructure behavior, ensuring that applications receive the resources they need without overprovisioning.

What is cloud optimisation?

Cloud optimisation is the process of improving the efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness of cloud environments. It involves right-sizing resources, automating workload placement, and eliminating waste such as idle or underutilized instances. IBM Turbonomic plays a key role in cloud optimisation by continuously analyzing application demand and infrastructure supply, then automatically making decisions to allocate resources dynamically. This ensures that applications perform reliably while minimizing cloud costs and maximizing return on investment.

What types of environments does IBM Turbonomic support?

Turbonomic supports on-premises, public cloud, private cloud private data centre, hybrid, and multicloud environments, including Kubernetes and major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

How does Turbonomic optimise resources?

It uses AI-driven analytics and an economic scheduling engine to model your IT environment as a market, dynamically allocating resources where they are needed most to ensure optimal performance and cost efficiency.

Can Turbonomic automate resource management?

Yes, Turbonomic can automate optimisation actions in real time, reducing manual intervention and enabling continuous, proactive management of your IT resources.

What business outcomes can I expect?

You can expect reduced IT and cloud costs, improved application performance, increased operational efficiency, and better alignment of IT with business goals.

Is Turbonomic suitable for organisations adopting FinOps?

Absolutely. Turbonomic is ideal for organisations looking to improve cloud cost management and operationalise FinOps practices, delivering tangible savings and efficiency gains.

How does Turbonomic improve sustainability?

By ensuring resources are only used when and where needed, Turbonomic helps organisations reduce their carbon footprint and support sustainability objectives