IBM's acquisition of Turbonomic adds application resource management capabilities to its AI-powered automation portfolio
Overview
What is Turbonomic Application Resource Management for IBM Cloud® Paks?
Turbonomic Application Resource Management for IBM Cloud Paks continuously analyzes applications' resource utilization. Gain fully automated actions to ensure applications get what they need to perform, while adhering to your business policies.
Use cases
Automate at scale
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Automate at scale
Shift a greater percentage of IT and development efforts to innovation projects that enable faster application development and delivery by automating capabilities across all of your cloud environments.
Get top-down, full-stack observability
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Get top-down, full-stack observability
Gain full-stack views of applications, services, containers, pods, nodes/VMs and networks enabling AppDev, DevOps and SRE teams to modernize applications for the best user experience and performance.
Instana and Turbonomic working together
Intelligent app resource management with AI-powered automation
Get steady, predictable performance by combining the application-level understanding of an APM tool with the infrastructure know-how of an ARM solution.
Benefits
Improve application performance
Help ensure your applications get the resources they need to perform. With a complete understanding of the application and infrastructure stack, you can automate actions and prevent resource congestion across a hybrid cloud environment.
Increase IT productivity
Automatically manage resources based on real-time demand to drive continuous performance and enable your application and infrastructure teams to shift their priorities to deliver better experiences for your end users.
Unite application and infrastructure teams
Gain a common understanding of how infrastructure impacts performance and bridge the gap between application and infrastructure teams. With your applications running on auto-pilot, you can shift your energy to innovation and reclaim time to drive better customer experiences.
The impact of AI-powered automation
IBM and Turbonomic executives explain why now is the perfect time for the acquisition, how both companies will transform the future of application performance with application resource management, and how enterprise customers will benefit.
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Other Turbonomic capabilities
Public cloud optimization
Deliver on-target application performance while eliminating excessive cloud resources
Network performance management
Enable smooth transitions to virtualized networking and cloud services
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