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IBM Turbonomic

IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management for IBM Cloud Paks drives application performance while maximizing efficiency and maintaining compliance throughout the application lifecycle.

Company size
Company size

250,000

Founded
Founded

2008 (Turbonomic)

Funding
Funding

Acquired

Turbonomic was acquired by IBM in 2021

IBM Turbonomic is categorized as:
Application Resource Management

What is the difference between Harness Cloud Cost Management vs. IBM Turbonomic?

IBM Turbonomic is an application resource management tool that lacks the core cloud cost management features such as billing, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting that can be found in Harness Cloud Cost Management.

Turbonomic vs Harness: DevOps Tools Comparison

Updated

November 30, 2023

  • SaaS
  • Audience & Primary Users
  • Cloud Support
  • Time Granularity
  • Tag Management Required
  • Hybrid Cloud Visibility
  • Cloud Account Visibility
  • Cloud Region Visibility
  • Application Visibility
  • Microservice Visibility
  • Environment Visibility
  • Non-Cluster Visibility (Services)
  • Cluster Visibility (Kubernetes/ECS)
  • Root Cost Analysis (3 Metrics)
  • Cloud Event Correlation (e.g. deploy)
  • Cost Recommendations
  • Alerting & Budgets
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Reporting
  • Documentation
  • Support
  • Training
  • Automated Idle Resource Management
  • Cloud Cost Business Intelligence

<yes><yes>

Engineering & Finance

All

Hourly

<yes><yes> Optional

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Utilized, Idle, Unallocated

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Engineering

All

Hourly

<no><no> Required

<no><no>

<no><no>

<no><no>

<no><no>

<no><no>

<no><no>

<no><no>

<no><no>

<no><no>

<no><no>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

<no><no>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

<no><no>

Features
Harness CCM
Harness CCM
IBM Turbonomic
Solution
Deployment Option

SaaS and Self-Hosted

Self-Hosted and SaaS

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Multi-Cloud Support

AWS, Azure, and GCP

AWS, Azure and GCP

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
On-Prem Cost Monitoring

<with><with>
Kubernetes Only

<yes><yes>

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Pricing Model

Percentage Cloud Spend

Per Workload / Node

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Cost Visibility
Cost Perspectives / Chargeback / Showback

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Cost Categories / Dynamic Bucketing

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Kubernetes Cost Allocation (By Node/Cluster/Workload)

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Multi-Cloud Cost Visualizations

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Import 3rd Party Costs

Coming soon

<yes><yes>

Out-of-the-Box Dashboards

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Custom BI Dashboards

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Forecasting

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Cloud Inventory

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Cost Optimization
Anomaly Detection

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Automated Idle Resource Management

<yes><yes>

<with><with> Manual Schedule

Spot Orchestration

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Cluster Orchestration on Spot Instances

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Kubernetes Node-Pool Recommendations

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Kubernetes Workload Recommendations

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

AWS Compute Recommendations

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Azure Compute Recommendations

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

GCP Compute Recommendations

<no><no>

<yes><yes>

RI / SP Planning and Recommendations

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Automated RI / SP Contract Execution

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Governance
Out-of-the-Box Governance Policy Rules

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Automated Governance Rule Enforcement

<yes><yes>

<with><with>

AI Assisted Governance Rule Creation

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Budgets

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Alerts

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Reporting

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Administrative
Multi-Currency Support

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

MSP Margin Adjustments

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Role-based Access Control

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Full Audit Trails

<yes><yes>

<with><with> Requires ServiceNow

APIs Available

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

24/7 Support Available

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Training

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Documentation

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

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Summary: 

If you’re a large organization with a data center on-premises or are in a hybrid cloud environment, IBM Turbonomic seems like a good solution. It’s not a cloud cost management tool in and of itself though, describing itself as an application resource management (ARM) tool. While it does have some interesting AI-powered features like Actions that can automatically reallocate resources, its main function is resource efficiency optimization, not cloud cost management. It falls short on cloud cost management functionality, lacking fundamental features such as budgeting/forecasting, cost anomaly detection, and even basic cloud cost reporting and billing.

If you’re looking for rich multi-cloud and container cost visibility, automated cloud cost savings, and cost forecasting, Harness Cloud Cost Management is the clear winner. Harness understands the pressure on engineering and FinOps teams to optimize cloud efficiency, along with the requirement to paint a full picture of cloud costs that includes container costs. Harness is a powerful, easy to implement solution that gets customers more value out of the cloud.

Tag Management Required:

Tag management is essential to understanding your infrastructure costs, and having a strong tagging policy is the foundation for cloud asset management. With Harness CCM, there’s no need for  manual tagging of cloud resources to maintain excellent tag cleanliness. The Harness Platform automates the creation of cloud infrastructure throughout the CD development pipeline and can automatically provision resources and tag them at creation time.

Unfortunately, manual tagging and great tag health is a requirement to get the full value out of Turbonomic’s resource management capabilities. The tool relies heavily on customers creating, applying, and maintaining good tagging policies to get granular control over resources and workflows. 

Cost Anomaly Detection:

Harness allows  customers to automatically flag and drill down to any anomalous cost spikes, avoiding end-of-month surprises. Leveraging machine learning that customizes itself to a customer’s environment, including customizations for seasonality, customers can proactively detect and resolve cost spikes. Turbonomic does not provide any insights into unexpected cost spikes.

Resource Management:

One of the core benefits of using cloud cost management tools is the recommendations for optimizing the efficiency of cloud infrastructure resources. The challenge that all companies face is making sure that the right engineers are reviewing those recommendations and taking action. Harness goes beyond cost recommendations to actively manage cloud resource idle time effectively with Cloud Autostopping, without custom scripts or manual engineering effort. So  engineers are free to focus on what matters most: revenue generating application development.

While Turbonomic does have some nice automation to push recommendation reviews into Jira or ServiceNow and take action on approved recommendations, it doesn’t solve the problem that  engineers must review those tickets, taking engineering time away from development. There is no support for managing idle resources, whether via schedule or otherwise.

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