IBM Turbonomic Pricing
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reviewer1446966
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I don't know the current prices, but I like how the licensing is based on the number of instances instead of sockets, clusters, or cores. We have some VMs that are so heavy I can only fit four on one server. It's not cost-effective if we have to pay more for those. When I move around a VM SQL box with 30 cores and a half-terabyte of RAM, I'm not paying for an entire socket and cores where people assume I have at least 10 or 20 VMs on that socket for that pricing.
We're not in the cloud, so we pay per VM. I have the license set at $500. We have around 400 VMs. I don't have to go over the price break at $500 that we got. We're a public institution, so I can't talk about the exact cost, but I can talk about strategy. We discovered that the one VM at $500 was better than getting four plus a couple of 10 packs. It was better for us to go ahead and call 500 in and use that as our leverage to bring the cost down.
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David Grudek
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
If you're a super-small business, it may be a little bit pricey for you. The problem with small businesses is that the owners are super-cheap and they don't want to spend anything unless they absolutely have to. It's really hard to explain this solution to people with that mentality. But you can run more servers on less physical hardware because it will keep things balanced based on your usage patterns.
But in large, enterprise companies where money is, maybe, less of an issue, Turbonomic is not that expensive. I can't imagine why any big company would not buy it, for what it does.
If you didn't have it and you went out and bought a whole new server, you're talking about spending something like $7,000 with Microsoft for a decent license, and then you're talking about a VMware license as well, which I would venture is in the $5,000 to $7000 range. And memory is so expensive all the time. And another server is going to cost, say, $10,000 to $15,000. If you do that twice over a couple of years, Turbonomic will have paid for itself. And that's not to mention the fact that it's also made things so much better for you because it has kept the system stable. I don't think Turbonomic is expensive, in that sense.
I put in a lot of expense and time in the very beginning, because I was trying to learn it. But if you're smart, you'll look back and see how well it's managing your systems now and you'll feel like a fool that you went out and bought all that new hardware in the past, because you probably could have gotten away without it. If you're truly maximizing your systems, the way that Turbonomic does, you can get away with less hardware with the same infrastructure because it's maximizing the hardware better. And that keeps your licensing costs down.
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Chris Bannoura
Sr System Engineer at Liquidity Services
I know there have been some issues with the billing, when the numbers were first proposed, as to how much we would save. There was a huge miscommunication on our part. Turbonomic was led to believe that we could optimize our AWS footprint, because we didn't know we couldn't. So, we were promised savings of $750,000. Then, when we came to implement Turbonomic, the developers in AWS said, "Absolutely not. You're not putting that in our environment. We can't scale down anything because they coded it."
Our AWS environment is a legacy environment. It has all these old applications, where all the developers who have made it are no longer with the company. Those applications generate a ton of money for us. So, if one breaks, we are really in trouble and they didn't want to have to deal with an environment that was changing and couldn't be supported. That number went from $750,000 to about $450,000. However, that wasn't Turbonomic's fault.
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Reviewer:704357
Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
When we first bought Turbonomic, we paid by ESXi host or something like that. We have several hosts with small workloads and a few with high workloads. We negotiated with Turbonomic, but the licensing model prevented us from covering a significant portion of our workload. Later, we got everything covered because they changed their pricing to a per VM model.
I believe they modified it when IBM acquired Turbonomic or maybe right before. We could cover all the VMs that weren't included when it was charged by the number of hosts. We use virtualization for fault tolerance and high availability, but we might only have a handful of VMs.
The licensing is now straightforward. You have a fee for a certain number of VMs plus maintenance. Everybody's switching to a subscription model these days. I'm an engineer, so I don't care how much anything costs. I only care that it works and doesn't keep me up at night. I'm not involved in purchasing. I don't think there are better, cheaper alternatives, but we review that annually.
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Anita H
AVP Global Hosting Operations at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing and licensing are fair. We purchase based on benchmark pricing, which we have been able to get. There are no surprise charges nor hidden fees.
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reviewer2339589
Senior Member of Tech Staff at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I have not seen Turbonomic's new pricing since IBM purchased it. When we were looking at it in my previous company before IBM's purchase, it was compatible with other tools.
View full review »In terms of pricing and licensing, I wasn't involved too much in that portion. In terms of the licensing, I would say it's definitely worth the investment. Even initially, if it seems out of range, the cost savings will make up for it.
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Rick Mount
Director of Enterprise Server Technology at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
When we have expanded our licensing, it has always been easy to make an ROI-based decision. So, it's reasonably priced. We would like to have it cheaper, but we get more benefit from it than we pay for it. At the end of the day, that's all you can hope for.
We paid for our TAM, but I'm sure it's embedded in the cost. However, that's optional. Obviously, you can do it all yourself: Open all your own support tickets and just send in an email to your TAM. Our TAM has access to log in, because she's set up as a contractor for us. So, she can actually get in and work with us.
View full review »IBM Turbonomic is an investment that we believe will deliver positive returns. We justified the purchase based on its potential to significantly reduce costs, which will allow us to recoup the investment and generate additional benefits. This ultimately makes refinancing a worthwhile option.
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reviewer1826193
Chief Information Officer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
The pricing is in line with the other solutions that we have. It's not a bargain software, nor is it overly expensive.
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Ryan Mahon
Team Lead, Systems Engineering at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Pricing is pretty straightforward. We haven't seen any major increases in it. It's a flexible model.
There aren't additional costs to the standard license.
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reviewer1464390
Server Administrator at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'm not involved in any of the billing, but my understanding is that is fairly expensive.
It would be great if the price of the solution would scale with the amount of money that you are saving in the cloud. If the solution itself cost, say, $300,000 over the course of three years, it should be saving you $750,000 in cloud spend. They should make it worth it. At this point, I don't think there's any built-in tool to show you if the price that you're paying for Turbonomic is worth the cost savings that you're getting from it.
Or maybe the licensing and pricing could be done in tiers. If you had 100 virtual machines in the cloud, they would sell you licensing for 100 machines, and then 500, and then 1000. It would help if they did it in tiers so that you're not paying a massive amount of money for Turbonomic as a whole, and not saving as much as you were hoping.
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Linley Ali
Head of Enterprise Wide Technical Architecture / Enterprise Technology Specialist at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The product is fairly priced right now. Given its capabilities, it is excellently priced. We think that the product will become self-funding because we will be able to maximize our resources, which will help us from a capacity perspective. That should save us money in the long run.
View full review »I believe our initial investment was $25k. I don’t have a day to day number, but it is pretty low as I generally jump into it once or twice a day for 5-10 minutes to look over the main screen to see if anything is going crazy and then print off some reports for management. I have email alerting set up, but I like to jump into the main interface.
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reviewer2225052
Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
I consider the pricing to be high.
View full review »Take the time to evaluate the complete suite. The base package does a lot, but there are several modules that make the product more complete end to end, and are at least worth investigating.
View full review »Look at deals that can show you an ROI within 12 months - easy to get approved and the product lives up to the hype.
View full review »I think our startup cost was around $49K (plus another $40K or so for the VNX storage module eight months later). The day-to-day cost is about $50/day.
View full review »Nothing specific, just to only license what you need. For us, we license only our production environment. It would be at least a 25% increase if we licensed our development/test environment too.
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Calvin Engen
CTO at F12.net
Ensure that you do a multi-year agreement to get the best discounts.
View full review »It's worth the time and money investment if you can afford it.
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Rodney Barnhardt
Server\Storage Administrator at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry
The pricing is fairly straightforward. It is based on the number of physical CPUs. There is now an option for per VM pricing. This can be valuable if you are monitoring VM's in a Cloud environment.
View full review »Not applicable.
View full review »The pricing is very competitive and much cheaper than VMware.
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Tjeerd Saijoen
CEO at Rufusforyou
Licensing costs are middle of the road; you need to take into account what the solution delivers to the customer. If it's running automatic remediation then it saves a lot of money for an organization.
If you compare other solutions, you'll witness the value of the product.
View full review »Negotiate and analyze how you want to use the product (automate/analyze/both) and which systems you report against. You don't need to monitor all of your systems. I have a lot of small, remote locations that have two hosts and under 10 VMs, and it is not worth spending money for those sites. Let VMWare HA/DRS handle it, because you are probably not going to run into performance or scalability issues.
View full review »Turbonomic essentially pays for itself in the first 30 days of use. Can completely replace an operations team for maintaining a healthy environment.
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Ervis Charles
Principal Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is an endpoint type license, which is fine. It is not overly expensive.
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reviewer1271802
Operations Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
It was an annual buy-in. You basically purchase it based on your host type stuff. The buy-in was about 20K, and the annual maintenance is about $3,000 a year.
View full review »We pay a subscription model, which more than pays for itself each year.
View full review »Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced. We also were able to get additional modules that helped us with our specific needs without much more costs.
View full review »Talk to your sales rep.
View full review »Pricing has changed considerably since we purchased the product several years ago.
View full review »It's very reasonable when you compare it against the cost of buying more VMware hosts, licenses and potentially storage. Don't forget to include the ongoing support costs for the additional hardware and VMware licenses as those really rack up over the 3-5 year lifespan of a server!
View full review »You should understand the cost of your physical servers and how much time and money you are spending year over year on expanding your virtual farm.
View full review »Get what you need plus enough for another server or two.
Definitely more cost effective and with nearly the same options as other more expensive solutions. Licensing is per socket, so load up on the cores rather than a lot of lower core CPUs.
View full review »There are several tiers. Implement the basics, build confidence, and add more as needed.
View full review »Licensing is easy to understand when you have an existing environment but determining growth or greenfield implementations may be difficult to get the right amount of licensing.
View full review »Only license what you want to monitor, this product will monitor everything connected to your vCenter unless you restrict the access of the service account. having the restrictions in place ahead of deployment can make for a much easier time dealing with the licenses. Pricing-wise this wasn't the cheapest but it also wasn't the most expensive. I was more looking for something to fit my needs than something affordable so price wasn't something I put too much thought into.
View full review »he original purchase cost was $11,000 USD with a setup cost of approximately $1000 USD (includes engineering time). Ongoing day-to-day costs are negligible, with time spent reading recommendations and a weekly check for updates of the product.
View full review »It's by no means a cheap product, but worth the investment.
View full review »I do not.
View full review »The solution was well worth the cost for us. It allows our admins to function on the other pieces of our environment.
View full review »It is worth every penny you spend on it. Also, you can "deny" it from seeing hosts and environments that you don't want managed (ie DEV).
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Anoop Dabral
Technical Consultant at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees
We have easily saved extra cost after optimizing resources with VMturbo.
View full review »Turbonomic is a good value for the money, and they've always been fantastic to work with.
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John Dopson
Network Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Very affordable compared to VMware.
View full review »Turbonomic new pricing seem to be more expensive, but not sure.
View full review »I wasn't involved in the pricing or licensing.
View full review »The pricing is transparent and straightforward. It is on a per-socket model.
View full review »They license by socket. Buy for the sockets you need.
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Mark Kaplan
Senior Director IT at BARBRI Inc.
Make sure you do a POC first so you can see the benefit this product will bring.
View full review »Speak with your account manager.
View full review »What I can advise is to trial the product, taking advantage of the Turbonomic pre-sales implemention support and kickstart training.
View full review »It's not the cheapest but it's a very good product for the cost.
View full review »Try the solution out; it is easy to set up and the first 30 days are free. After that, scope your requirements and talk to Turbonomic about the cost of the solution and then NEGOTIATE a discount.
View full review »If you're on a strict budget and the numbers on the quote aren't far-off, let them work with you. I've also had sizable discounts when returning for more licensing and modules.
View full review »The pricing and licensing are fair.
View full review »Not sure.
View full review »It was reasonable. Also, they've been very forgiving on the trail end of things, as we only bought licensing for our "new" infrastructure, but monitored the whole (old and new) throughout our transition.
View full review »Pricing is a bit high IMHO. Our hope is that this solution will delay some planned hardware purchases by allowing us to resize according to true demand.
View full review »None.
View full review »Reasonable with other products on the market.
View full review »Reach out to the Turbonomic team directly and work with your local rep so that you can get the best solution/pricing available to you.
View full review »It is an expensive product so we have only licenced the critical hosts in production. Some of the features may not work if your VMware hosts are not licenced. Features such as DRS will not work unless you have a cluster licenced for DRS in VMware. Therefore the workload placement VMTurbo tries to carry out will not work as the VMs will not migrate.
View full review »The pricing is competitive and the licensing model is flexible. We knew that we would be significantly reducing our host count over the six months following implementation. There were license options available for this exact type of scenario
View full review »Just license what you want to monitor. We have a DR environment which we chose not to monitor.
View full review »No comment.
View full review »I was not personally involved with the purchase, but I feel it was a wise decision.
View full review »Pricing is a little on the high side but you get what you pay for.
View full review »It is most applicable with clusters that host large numbers of VMs.
View full review »Great value for the money.
View full review »Reasonable costs based on a per socket license model.
View full review »Compare it to other solutions and you will find that the equilibrium equation is not available with other solutions. I feel this tool is the equivalent of two engineers under me .
View full review »Contact Sales about pricing and licensing as they will work with you on the best solution.
View full review »Reasonable as a bundle product.
View full review »We felt the pricing was very fair for the product. It is in no way prohibitive for larger deployments, unlike other similar product on the market.
View full review »As compared with vROPS, licensing cost is less.
View full review »Well worth the investment!
View full review »It is fair.
View full review »This will help you realize where your money is spent.
View full review »Complicated
View full review »The pricing was very reasonable.
View full review »Contact the Turbonomic sales team, explain your needs and what you're looking to monitor. They will get a pre-sales SE on the phone and together work up a very accurate quote.
View full review »None.
View full review »They are very flexible on how to make it happen.
View full review »The pricing is quite fair, especially compared to VMware Operation Manager.
View full review »Simple per processor, typical of a hypervisor based product.
View full review »Compared to other competitors, Turbonomic is reasonable priced.
View full review »Pricing is very competitive.
View full review »You always get what you pay for.... but in this case - I feel like I get a lot more. Completely worth it.
View full review »Ensure to order the correct/complete modules for your environment and equipment.
View full review »Very fair for what you get.
View full review »Simple, straightforward, inline with others.
View full review »Be very clear about what your needs are to ensure you receive proper licensing.
View full review »There is a balance of pricing between others software.
View full review »Licensing is pretty straightforward. It is similar to the VM model pricing per socket.
View full review »Their per-socket perpetual licensing works very well for us. Pricing was aggressive, as compared to other options we had.
View full review »In order to get the most out of the product cost, you need to drive the rightsizing of workloads. Trust in what it recommends.
View full review »Speak with a rep.
View full review »The software is very cost effective, especially in comparison to other products.
View full review »Make sure you account for future cores, if this is still the licensing model.
View full review »This product is very competitively priced for all the automation it brings.
View full review »Cost effective solution that works.
Call the sales team and ensure you get the solution that fits your needs.
View full review »Turbonomic was able to accommodate our perhaps unique needs in purchasing. Capital expenditures are easier for our team to make versus subscriptions Operating expenditures. Turbonomic offered both models and made it easy for us to even switch between them.
View full review »No advice.
View full review »It is easy for licensing the physical core CPU.
View full review »It is a good product for the money.
View full review »Go for perpetual licensing where possible you will get a return on investment just on the features alone.
View full review »Management dealt with the licensing and pricing.
View full review »No advice.
View full review »Definitely try this if you have a huge virtual infrastructure, it has become a staple in our environment.
View full review »Licensing cost is relatively cost effective.
View full review »After the first year the costs are very reasonable.
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