IBM Turbonomic in 5 Minutes or Less

This video explores how IBM Turbonomic helps optimize application performance and reduce cloud waste. It demonstrates Turbonomic's ability to provide proactive recommendations for resource optimization and shows how these actions can be implemented directly through Instana. Viewers will learn how this integration simplifies resource management, minimizes overprovisioning, and ensures applications run efficiently, all while providing clear insights into performance improvements. Perfect for understanding the power of automation in hybrid-cloud environments in just a few minutes.

Video Transcript:

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Welcome everyone to C4G Insights in five minutes or less. Today we're talking about IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management. Let's get started. Turbonomic is a powerful application resource management solution designed to keep your hybrid environment running optimally by focusing on three key objectives; ensuring your applications always get the resources they need, maximizing the efficiency of on premises and cloud resources, and keeping costs as low as possible, all while adhering to your organization's compliance and business policies.

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When you deploy turbonomic, it automatically discovers all entities in your targeted environment and builds a dynamic supply chain model. This gives you full stack visibility, showing how everything from business applications to the underlying infrastructure works together.

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It's a clear and actionable view of your hybrid environment. Turbonomic integrates with tools like IBM Instana, AppDynamics, Dynatrace and New Relic to pull in data on applications, transactions, and components.

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It seamlessly maps containers, nodes, virtual machines, and storage, whether on premises or in the cloud. Turbonomic doesn't require agents. It pulls everything directly via APIs and organizes it into a unified data model within 30 minutes.

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It identifies the exact actions needed to ensure your environment is performing optimally. Actions can include resizing virtual machines or databases, deleting orphaned storage volumes, optimizing reserved instances, or even turning off idle resources.

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These aren't just recommendations either. They're actionable insights you can execute directly in turbonomic or automate entirely. With the right automation policies in place, Turbonomic can handle resource adjustments proactively, so issues are resolved before they impact performance.

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Here's how it works in practice. Imagine one of your applications is running slowly. Turbonomic pinpoints risks at every level, whether it's a congested host, an under-provisioned component, or an over-provisioned resource. With a few clicks you can apply actions to address those issues.

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For example, Turbonomic might recommend scaling a virtual machine to better match workload demands or reallocating resources to free up capacity, all with immediate insights into the before and after impact on your environment. At its core, Turbonomic ensures application demand is met in real time by available IT supply.

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Its automation capabilities can go further, allowing you to define policies that execute actions during maintenance windows or integrate approvals through tools like ServiceNow. Whether you choose to automate fully or keep manual control, you'll always have the flexibility to align turbonomic with your operational needs.

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Today we talked about how IBM Turbonomic can help you get a handle on your application resource management, but there's a lot more to it. Let us know if you'd like a demo. Next time, we'll talk about how IBM Turbonomic plus IBM Instana is a powerhouse for transforming reactive operations into proactive innovation.

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Thank you for joining us on this quick insight into IBM Turbonomic, and we look forward to exploring more with you next time.