Turbonomic Blog

Across every enterprise, there is unprecedented investment in modern applications and the cloud and cloud native environments that support them. A recent KPMG 2020 US Survey found that 74% of CEOs are accelerating digitization of operations and creation of a next-generation operating model.

On a recent Turbonomic webinar, Linley Ali, Enterprise Architect and IT Strategist at Florida Blue, provided insights on application modernization at Florida Blue. Linley has been at Florida Blue for over eight years and was previously with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) for 20 years.

Florida Blue is a member company of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association focused on health insurance in Florida. With over 12,000 employees and $19B in revenue, Florida Blue is in the middle of an application modernization and cloud native journey. The following blog provides excerpts from our recent webinar, “DevOps Workflow: Better Collaboration Between Application Development and IT Operations”.

Introduction
Choosing the right compute size for a VM is always a challenge. In the cloud environment, choosing the right size for a VM from hundreds of instances offered by the provider is even more challenging. Generally, app owners look at vCPU and vMEM usage of the workload to determine the configuration required for the particular VM. In Azure, there are more factors that need to be considered. In this article, we will focus on Azure’s VM IOPS requirements and how the new feature in Turbonomic 7.22.8 enhances the recommendation for continuously choosing the right size for VMs while assuring performance and reducing costs.

Today is a fantastic day as we share the news of our next-generation Turbonomic platform. Turbonomic 8—now in Preview—is built to scale to even the largest and most complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments as proven by our current early access customers who are each running with hundreds of thousands of objects managed by a single Turbonomic platform instance!

The most common request I get from tech folks in the field is that they don’t have enough time to experiment and learn new technologies. As a systems architect in my career, I had to really work hard to stay on top of trends and new technologies with both research and hands-on usage., so I know your pain.

The cloud is evolving at a furious pace.

Like all major technology revolutions, the cloud brings with it the mysticism of new technology, the fear of the unknown, and the opportunity to master a whole new set of challenges. It can be awesome and scary at the same time - provisioning servers in minutes instead of months, automation that can replace whole teams, and whole new security attack vectors.

Today, Turbonomic was named to Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators List! Joined by 100 other companies like Dell, Google, Etsy, and Nestle, Turbonomic came in at #57 for its ability to create a culture that empowers employees at all levels to improve processes, create new products, or invent new ways of doing business. This designation is awarded to organizations who demonstrate a serious and established commitment to building a culture of innovation that yields tangible results. 

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Super Clusters!

One of the most valuable capabilities that organizations enjoy with Turbonomic is the ability to create what we call “super clusters”. A super cluster is a virtual resource pool comprised of physical clusters in your environment.

As a part of Turbonomic’s continued effort to support diversity in leadership, we are excited to sign on as founding members of the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color. This pledge asks companies to commit to interview at least one qualified person of color for every open leadership role, VP and higher, including the C-suite and Board of Directors. 

Turbonomic is thrilled to announce that we have been named an EMA Vendor to Watch! This designation is awarded to companies that deliver unique customer value or provide value in innovative ways. It honors vendors that dare to go off the beaten path and have defined their own market niches – Turbonomic’s market niche being Application Resource Management (ARM). This designation categorizes Turbonomic’s ARM as a leading solution in the AIOps market for its valuable combination of analytics and automation that produce revolutionizing AI.