IBM to Buy Turbonomic
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is to acquire Turbonomic, a Boston, MA-based Application Resource Management (ARM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) software provider.
The amount of the deal – subject to customary closing conditions, was not disclosed. It is anticipated the transaction will close in the second quarter of 2021.
Led by Ben Nye, CEO, Turbonomic provides businesses with ARM software that simultaneously optimizes the performance, compliance, and cost of applications in real-time.
The acquisition will provide businesses with full stack application observability and management to assure performance and minimize costs using AI to optimize resources – such as containers, VMs, servers, storage, networks, and databases, and assess and manage the performance of any application, anywhere.
- Addition of Turbonomic will enable businesses to assure application performance using AI and cut costs by optimizing the deployment of IT resources across development, test and production
Multi-cloud management: Challenges for tech, people, processes
Multi-cloud management options abound but selecting what you need is no easy task
Andy Jassy (AWS); Satya Nadella (Microsoft) and Thomas Kurian (Google Cloud) Credit: AWS / Microsoft / Google Cloud
When it comes to managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments there are many options but no easy path nor lack of challenges.
While cloud computing has been around in some form for more than a decade, tools to manage its current enterprise iterations from private, on-premises, or public locations are still evolving at a rapid rate. Gartner says that more than 90 vendors including IBM and Red Hat, VMware, CloudBolt, Flexera, Scalr, Cisco, and Nutanix offer varying degrees of cloud-management capabilities.
While cloud computing has been around in some form for more than a decade, tools to manage its current enterprise iterations from private, on-premises, or public locations are still evolving at a rapid rate. Gartner says that more than 90 vendors including IBM/Red Hat, VMware, CloudBolt, Flexera, Scalr, Cisco, and Nutanix offer varying degrees of cloud-management capabilities.
While there are many options, organizations struggle to effectively manage a multi-cloud environment, said Roy Ritthaler, vice president of product marketing, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware.
“With workloads deployed in multiple public clouds, multi-cloud Kubernetes, private cloud/data centers and edge locations, most organizations find it challenging to get a unified view of the health of their environments as well as manage costs, ensure security and improve operational governance while automating core processes,” Ritthaler said.