Turbonomic Delivers Measurable Impact Across Enterprise IT

Optimizing Infrastructure Performance at Scale

In today's hybrid and multicloud environment, maintaining application performance while controlling costs is no longer optional—it's essential. Enterprise leaders such as Hyland Software, IBM CIO Office, APIS IT, and IBM TechZone turned to IBM Turbonomic to navigate this complex landscape. The result: automated resource optimization, significant cost savings, and assured performance across thousands of workloads.

Challenge: Managing Resources Across Complex IT Environments

All four organizations faced common pain points:

• Manual capacity planning and resource allocation that slowed operations and risked performance issues

• Overprovisioned infrastructure driving unnecessary cloud and licensing costs

• Lack of real-time visibility into application resource demands across hybrid environments

• Increasing pressure to optimize spending while maintaining strict SLOs and performance standards

Performance assurance requires not only continuous monitoring but also intelligent automation that can act in real time across diverse infrastructure. Legacy tools and reactive approaches created inefficiencies, increased operational risk, and prevented teams from scaling their operations effectively.

Solution: IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management

To address these challenges, these organizations implemented IBM Turbonomic—a comprehensive platform that continuously analyzes application dependencies, automates resource optimization, and assures performance across the full stack.

Key capabilities deployed included:

• Full-stack visibility across applications, containers, VMs, and infrastructure

• Real-time workload right-sizing and automated scaling actions

• Policy-driven automation to maintain compliance and control

• Capacity planning and forecasting based on live utilization metrics

• Native integration with VMware, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments

These capabilities helped each organization build an intelligent resource management foundation, enabling proactive optimization, continuous cost control, and a data-driven approach to infrastructure operations.

Results: Performance and Cost Optimization at Scale

The impact of IBM Turbonomic was significant across all four companies:

Dramatic Cost Reduction

• Hyland Software achieved 15% savings in computing costs through over 2,000 automated resourcing actions

• APIS IT reduced VMware licensing costs by 30% while increasing utilization by 15%

• IBM TechZone saved USD619,000 through 175,000 automated resourcing actions

Optimized Resource Utilization

• IBM CIO Office decreased cumulative memory limits by 3.8 TB through 45,000 monthly automated actions

• Eliminated overprovisioning across compute, storage, and network resources

• Right-sized workloads continuously without manual intervention

Assured Application Performance

• Maintained SLOs while reducing resource allocation

• Prevented performance bottlenecks through real-time monitoring and automation

• Improved infrastructure efficiency without compromising service delivery

Operational Excellence

• Reduced manual capacity planning effort by up to 70%

• Enabled teams to scale operations across thousands of workloads

• Improved transparency and decision-making with real-time dashboards and forecasting

Conclusion: A Strategic Advantage

By deploying IBM Turbonomic, these enterprise leaders not only optimized costs—they turned resource management into a competitive advantage. The platform's intelligent automation approach helped them eliminate waste, assure performance, and scale operations efficiently in an increasingly complex IT landscape.

As organizations continue to expand across hybrid and multicloud environments with AI workloads, containers, and distributed applications, the need for automated, application-aware resource management will only increase. Expert implementation partners empower enterprises to unlock the full potential of IBM Turbonomic for lasting operational and financial impact.