Turbonomic Blog

We are excited to be a part of the return to an in-person Cisco Live next week! From June 13–16th, technology innovators from all over will gather to learn and share ways of fueling the digital future. This is a special event for us as this will be our first presence as Turbonomic, an IBM Company.

We are excited to announce that Turbonomic supports horizontal scaling of cloud native application services as well as the underlying compute resources based on customer experience Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Released with 8.4.4, this feature is a huge step in supporting our customers who have modernized their business-critical applications to deliver great customer experiences while increasing elasticity. Too often organizations find themselves scaling microservices based on default utilization metrics and, unable to correlate autoscaling at the application layer with the underlying compute, spending a significant amount of labor setting triggers and policies that ultimately limit elasticity. With Turbonomic the investment in modern, cloud native microservices achieves elasticity that simultaneously benefits your bottom-line, customer experience, and even your sustainability goals.

Data centers globally use an estimated 200 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity each year. If the collective data centers of the world were a country, it would rank #23 on a list of highest electricity consumers by nation. Put another way, that’s equivalent to nearly 40% of Germany’s electricity consumption, or 5% of the United States.’ But what’s your IT organization’s impact? What can you do about it?

This is the third blog in a series that will cover the most pressing challenges, opportunities, best practices, and first steps for organizations on their path towards green IT. Be sure to check out Four Roadblocks to Green IT and First Three Steps to Green IT.

We have more dynamic infrastructure options than ever before and it’s growing every single day. We also see organizations and teams still struggling with the challenge of managing software licensing and reconciling the cost of licenses alongside the day-to-day challenges of operating application infrastructure.

This is the second blog in a series that will cover the most pressing challenges, opportunities, best practices, and first steps for organizations on their path towards green IT. Check out the first blog, Four Roadblocks to Green IT, here. 

Enterprise companies can save up to 70% on compute costs by committing to short- or long-term usage. So why aren’t all businesses using Reserved Instances for their applications? The reason is that purchasing, renewing, and managing the usage or coverage of Reserved Instances is extremely complex.

When the ecommerce industry boomed in the early 2000s it ushered in the API era. Information was being shared at a rapid pace and businesses realized they could use this data to improve digital experiences. The Application Programming Interface (API) created a way for information in one application to be easily available to other applications, allowing developers and programmers to transform the customer experience.

There is no doubt that sustainability has quickly become a top business initiative – regardless of industry, company size, or geography. We are excited to launch this first blog as a part of an upcoming series that will cover the most pressing challenges, opportunities, best practices, and first steps for organizations on their path towards green IT. 

Turbonomic Application Resource Manager (ARM) is a fantastic AIops platform to ensure that performance is assured from Application through to Array while maintaining operational governance and efficiency. In this article we focus on 5 ways to get the most out of Turbonomic ARM when it comes to Storage Operations with a real-world example at the end.