IBM Turbonomic 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

IBM Turbonomic

4.4

(14)

Pricing

Starting at $18.75 per month

About IBM Turbonomic

Turbonomic is an application resource management solution that helps businesses across healthcare, banking, retail and other industries track the performance of applications in various cloud environments. It allows IT teams to allocate resources, manage multiple workloads and streamline data migration operations.

It enables employees to measure key performance indicators (KPIs) and set up compliance policies. Turbonomic offers an application programming interface (API), which facilitates integration with several third-party platforms such as IBM WebSphere, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Mesosphere, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Foundry, Docker and more. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via phone, email and other online measures.

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IBM Turbonomic Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $18.75 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

IBM Turbonomic Cloud

$18.75

per month

Plan includes:

Public cloud optimization
Kubernetes optimization
Application and database resource optimization

IBM Turbonomic Standard

$225.00

usage based, per year

Plan includes:

Public cloud optimization
Kubernetes optimization
Application and database resource optimization
Datacenter Secure Connect Tunnel
On-premises data center optimization
SLO-driven optimization
Enterprise SSO

IBM Turbonomic Features

Popular features found in Cloud Management
Capacity Analytics
Compliance Management
Disaster Recovery
Event Logs
Real-Time Monitoring
Reporting & Statistics
Resource Management
Security Management
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
Third-Party Integrations
More features of IBM Turbonomic
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
API
Application Management
Audit Management
Bottleneck Identification
Capacity Management
Collaboration Tools
Container Monitoring
Cost Management
Customizable Reports
Dashboard Creation
Database Monitoring
Database Support
Data Import/Export
Data Storage Management
Data Visualization
Drag & Drop
Email Alerts
Load Balancing
Monitoring
Multi-Cloud Management
Namespace Management
Performance Analysis
Performance Metrics
Performance Monitoring
Prioritization
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Remote Monitoring & Management
Remote Update/Installation
Reporting/Analytics
Role-Based Permissions
Search/Filter
Server Monitoring
Single Sign On
SSL Security
Trend Analysis
User Management
Virtual Machine Monitoring
Workflow Management

IBM Turbonomic Integrations

Microsoft Azure

IBM Instana

Dynatrace

vCenter Server

Amazon EC2

AppDynamics

See all 11 integrations

IBM Turbonomic User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

43%

57%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.8

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.3

Gaurav B.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

Ibm turbomonic a easy solution for optimization for cloud

For my team in my company it works very well easy to adapt

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's automaton and resources management, optimize cloud operations and and significant cost savings

Cons:

I think it's complex for new user They need documentation to use this service

Dale G.

Verified reviewer

Insurance

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2025

Great Product

It’s been a very solid product that has paid for itself several times over

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The long term insights for right sizing workloads

Cons:

Lack of HCI target support, if more HCI targets were supported it would make the solution perfect. Specifically Dell PowerFlex

Reasons for choosing IBM Turbonomic

Turbonomic was cheaper and the feature set met what we needed at the time while also adding features we knew we would use in the future

Chris S.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

It does resource management well; but that's about it

It is a nice product. I used there new HTML5 interface and it presented data very nicely. The ability to enforce policies without managing individual VMs is nice, but could not justify its cost. Our system administrators will simply need to manage resources manually.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It does resource managment, allocation, forecasting, and policies better than something like DRS and sDRS native to vCenter, but that is about it. It's nice that it also does it for resources in the cloud.

Cons:

The cost is pretty hard to justify for any organization on a budget. You could get close to the same results by simply buying more hardware resources or administrative personnel to manage resources more closely.

AMAR M.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Steep learning curve but beneficial in the long run

It was a little costly but overall we did bring client issues down by identifying where we were over utilizing resources and where we needed to add more.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We would constantly run out of resources on our VMware 5.5 environment. Turbonomic ran for about a week and was able to extrapolate where we could shrink resources and where we needed to add more resources so we don't have slowness.

Cons:

The VM appliance is linux based and a bit hard to manage but the web client interface is easier to manage.

Reasons for choosing IBM Turbonomic

It also monitored our VMs along with running analytics.

Amit G.

Verified reviewer

Semiconductors

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed March 2025

IBM Turbonomic Key Features

Overall experience is excellent and it's an scalable platform with perfect ROI

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Cost optimization along with comprehensive view into the health of IT Infra

Cons:

As of now I can't see any dislikes in the platform

Dhanush R.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used monthly for free trial

Reviewed June 2025

Smart Automation for Cloud Efficiency

powerful tool, saves cost, needs training initially. Teams may hesitate to enable full automation and it may lead Trust Barrier.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Al powered automation, multi cloud and hybrid support, agentless integration, cost optimization, Actionable insights

Cons:

Initial setup complexity, small cap teams might feel expensive, Teams may hesitate to enable full automation.

Ben L.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Great software for automating your virtualization environment

I keep finding new things that I can gather information for. From finding out when I'm going to need to add resources to an environment, to planning a workload migration from one datacenter to another, or even automating the vMotion of VMs to better balance a cluster. Great tool!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The wide range of things this product can do. From reporting on the performance of an environment, to automating the migration of VMs, to planning workload migrations, to planning deployments, the list goes on and on!

Cons:

When they upgraded to a new version, they dropped several built-in dashboards. Although you can still login to the old interface and access them, I'd like the dashboards to be available in the new version as well.

Verified

Reviewer

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

The Operations Manager Killer!

Easy installation and use, multi cloud integration, and automatized solution, the best monitoring software that i worked

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is the bestMonitoring and Planing virtualization infraestructure, have a fresh and easy dashboard view, and automaticed improviments to the infraestucture, connection with cloud enviroments

Cons:

I don't have anything to say in cons, may be the support because i don't use yet, it is a simple product and works fine.

Eric W.

Verified reviewer

Oil & Energy

51-200 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Turbonomic automates right sizing my VM workloads

The software assisted us in getting the most life our of our aging equipment as possible, giving us time to upgrade and making our upgrade process a little easier.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Helps make sure my VM's are allocated the correct amount of resources at any given time. It also assists in regular maintenance components such as regular scheduled reboots to apply updates after hours without having to be present to do them myself for our non critical systems.

Cons:

The interface can be fairly complicated, especially writing queries and getting scheduling correct. The interface feels rudimentary and there is no automatic updates. the name change from VMTurbo to Turbonomic was an awful decision. I can't say it outloud and expect people to take me seriously.

Verified

Reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

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