Cloudability vs Zesty comparison

Apptio and Zesty are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Apptio is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1, while Zesty is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.5. Apptio holds a 14.0% mindshare in CCM, compared to Zesty’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Apptio users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Zesty users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Cloudability and Zesty compete in the cloud management space. While Cloudability is favored for cost management, Zesty's features justify its cost, making it more appealing.

Features: Cloudability offers robust analytics, comprehensive cloud usage insights, and efficient reporting. Zesty provides dynamic resource optimization, cost efficiency, and immediate resource scaling for fluctuating demands.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cloudability has a straightforward setup and timely support. Zesty emphasizes automation and proactive support, which is a distinctive benefit.

Pricing and ROI: Cloudability's setup costs are accessible, ensuring quick ROI. Zesty's higher initial cost delivers substantial ROI through ongoing optimization, offering an investment in agility and efficiency.

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IBM Turbonomic

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 16.8%, up from 14.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudability is 14.0%, up from 10.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zesty is 2.2%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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SubashSubbiah

Assistant Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It can tell us where performance is lagging on the hardware layer, but the reporting on the application layer is lacking

The automation area could be improved, and the generic reports are poor. We want more details in the analysis report from the application layer. The reports from the infrastructure layer are satisfactory, but Turbonomic won't provide much information if we dig down further than the application layer. I would like them to add some apps for physical device load resourcing and physical-to-virtual calculation. It gives excellent recommendations for the virtual layer but doesn't have the capabilities for physical-to-virtual analysis. Automated deployment is something else they could add. Some built-in automation features are helpful, but we aren't effectively using a few. We want a few more automated features, like autoscaling and automatic performance optimization testing would be useful.

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Vijay More

Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Helps to understand and manage spending across clouds, but has dashboard limitations

Cloudability offers valuable insights into data engineering and analytics platforms. With access to the same data Cloudability utilizes, one could recreate similar dashboards on their own data platform. This implies that Cloudability's role could be replaceable with some organizational effort, provided they have the necessary data sources and expertise. However, for organizations looking to streamline processes without investing extensive time, money, and resources into building their solution, Cloudability serves as a convenient option. Moreover, it offers benefits for both single-cloud and multi-cloud users. While it's beneficial for single-cloud users, it becomes particularly advantageous for organizations with multi-cloud environments, as it helps manage costs and optimize resources across different cloud providers.

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Jeffery Smith

Vice President at Centro, Inc.

Effortless cost management with automated instance adjustment and helpful support

There are different resource types that we would like to leverage and get reserved instances for, such as RDS instances. Currently, no mechanism within Zesty allows this, but this may be due to AWS limitations. Another point is that Zesty needs to react to any changes AWS makes, but they have been proactive in their communication regarding material impacts.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I have the ability to automate things similar to the Orchestrator stuff. I do have the ability to have it do some balancing, and if it sees some different performance metrics that I've set not being met, it'll actually move some of my virtual machines from, let's say, one host to another. It is sort of an automation tool that helps me. Basically, I specify the metric, and if I get a certain host or something being over-utilized, it'll automatically move the virtual machines around for me. It basically has to snap into my vCenter and then it can make adjustments and move my virtual machines around. It also has some very nice reporting tools built around virtual machines. It tells you how much storage, memory, or CPU is being used monthly, and then it gives you a very nice way to be able to send out billing structure to your end users who use servers within your environment."

"The notifications saying, "This is a corrective action," even though some of them can be automated, are always welcome to see. They summarize your entire infrastructure and how you can better utilize it. That is the biggest feature."

"The feature for optimizing VMs is the most valuable because a number of the agencies have workloads or VMs that are not really being used. Turbonomic enables us to say, 'If you combine these, or if you decide to go with a reserve instance, you will save this much.'"

"It became obvious to us that there was a lot more being offered in the product that we could leverage to ensure our VMware environment was running efficiently."

"It is a good holistic platform that is easy to use. It works pretty well."

"The most valuable features are the cluster utilization reports and the resource capacity planning. We can simulate how much capacity we can add to the current resources. The individual DM reports and VM-facing recommendations report are also helpful."

"In our organization, optimizing application performance is a continuous process that is beyond human scale. We would not be able to do the number of actions that Turbonomic takes on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. It is humanly impossible with the little micro adjustments that it can make. That is a huge differentiator. If you just figure each action could take anywhere very conservatively from five to 10 minutes to act upon, then you multiply that out by thousands of actions every month, it is easily something where you could say, "I am saving a couple of FTEs.""

"With Turbonomic, we were able to reduce our ESX cluster size and save money on our maintenance and license renewals. It saved us around $75,000 per year but it's a one-time reduction in VMware licensing. We don't renew the support. The ongoing savings is probably $50,000 to $75,000 a year, but there was a one-time of $200,000 plus."

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"One of the standout features of the solution is its groups and views functionality. The solution is highly-stable. The solution is highly-scalable. The customer support is good. They can be easily contacted. The initial setup is straightforward. It's an excellent tool, especially when dealing with multiple clouds. It streamlines the process, eliminating the need to check each cloud individually."

"The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Cloudability's integration with our existing cloud infrastructure, it's not integrated directly into our AWS infrastructure but rather reads and pulls data from it, providing valuable insights and analysis for cost management."

"Cloudability takes care of identifying and managing the cloud."

"The pricing isn't too expensive."

"Each user can have their own dashboard that they want to consume. Instead of having to share one dashboard for multiple users, you can create individual views for each user to view, and that view will contain only their own accounts, which allows for separation of data."

"The support from IBM is fantastic"

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to create reports and dashboards."

"It has already given us insight into how to optimize. So, we are now ramping up steadily its usage."

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"The turnkey aspect of Zesty is very valuable."

"One of the reasons we decided to onboard Zesty was that it started supporting Windows instances."

Cons

"It can be more agnostic in terms of the solutions that it provides. It can include some other cost-saving methods for the public cloud and SaaS applications as well."

"The way it handles updates needs to be improved."

"The management interface seems to be designed for high-resolution screens. Somebody with a smaller-resolution screen might not like the web interface. I run a 4K monitor on it, so everything fits on the screen. With a lower resolution like 1080, you need to scroll a lot. Everything is in smaller windows. It doesn't seem to be designed for smaller screens."

"The old interface was not the clearest UI in some areas, and could be quite intimidating when first using the tool."

"Turbonomic can modernize the look and feel, making it more user-friendly to access and obtain information."

"There is room for improvement [with] upgrades. We have deployed the newer version, version 8 of Turbonomic. The problem is that there is no way to upgrade between major Turbonomic versions. You can upgrade minor versions without a problem, but when you go from version 6 to version 7, or version 7 to version 8, you basically have to deploy it new and let it start gathering data again. That is a problem because all of the data, all of the savings calculations that had been done on the old version, are gone. There's no way to keep track of your lifetime savings across versions."

"Since the introduction of a HTML 5 based interface, our main - but minor - criticism of a less than intuitive operation managers' GUI would be the area of improvement."

"The planning and costing areas could be a little bit more detailed. When you have more than 2,000 machines, the reports don't work properly. They need to fix it so that the reports work when you use that many virtual machines."

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"Cloudability needs to improve on data collection from cloud sources."

"Cloudability needs to focus on more cloud providers."

"I would like the API functionality to improve. The update time after uploading data could also be improved."

"There is always room for improvement in education and training. We are not that mature in terms of our automation. It could help us identify where we could optimize in terms of build."

"Right now, what we're doing is we are manually putting the data in it, which is something which we don't like about Cloudability."

"They can improve the custom range of the network."

"In general, I feel Cloudability wasn't able to support many resources."

"The API is not well-documented. It is not straightforward and difficult to use. This needs to be improved, as it is very difficult for our developers to develop automation around it."

More Cloudability cons

"I would like to get RDS-reserved instances that I could buy and sell, but that's a limitation on AWS."

"There are different resource types that we would like to leverage and get reserved instances for, such as RDS instances."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We see ROI in extended support agreements (ESA) for old software. Migration activities seem to be where Turbonomic has really benefited us the most. It's one click and done. We have new machines ready to go with Turbonomic, which are properly sized instead of somebody sitting there with a spreadsheet and guessing. So, my return on investment would certainly be on currency, from a software and hardware perspective."

"If you're a super-small business, it may be a little bit pricey for you... 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."

"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."

"IBM Turbonomic is an investment that we believe will deliver positive returns."

"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."

"Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced."

"What I can advise is to trial the product, taking advantage of the Turbonomic pre-sales implemention support and kickstart training."

"It's worth the time and money investment if you can afford it."

More IBM Turbonomic pricing and cost advice

"It justifies the cost and is worth it."

"The price of the license or the usage is a percentage of the top consumption. So it varies from year to year."

"We have seen ROI with the reserved instances, and having the ability to predict what reserved instances you can get. We can save tens of thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases."

"Cloudability is a bit expensive."

"My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year."

"The solution’s pricing is reasonable."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

14%

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?

It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is...

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What needs improvement with Turbonomic?

The implementation could be enhanced.

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What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?

We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting...

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What do you like most about Cloudability?

The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboar...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudability?

I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, where one is very cheap and ten is very expensive. Pricing is one of th...

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What needs improvement with Cloudability?

The first one is, how to help users, especially practitioners, stick to their commitment plan. For example, how can I...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zesty?

Their pricing is brilliant. It is a percentage of what they save us by using reserved instances. If they save us $25,...

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What needs improvement with Zesty?

There are different resource types that we would like to leverage and get reserved instances for, such as RDS instanc...

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What is your primary use case for Zesty?

We predominantly use Zesty to manage our spend in AWS, specifically around reserving instances for our compute worklo...

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Overview

IBM Turbonomic is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by companies to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions.

IBM Turbonomic leverages AI to continuously analyze application resource consumption, deliver insights and dashboards, and make real-time adjustments. Common use cases include cloud cost optimization, cloud migration planning, data center modernization, FinOps acceleration, Kubernetes optimization, sustainable IT, and application resource management. By integrating with various cloud platforms, on-premise infrastructures, and containers, IBM Turbonomic provides a holistic view of the environment, ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently.

The solution is designed to support complex IT environments, offering actionable insights and automated actions that help IT teams proactively manage application performance and infrastructure resources. Turbonomic customers report an average 33% reduction in cloud and infrastructure waste without impacting application performance, and return-on-investment of 471% over three years.

IBM Turbonomic manages resources across hybrid and on-premises data centers to ensure efficiency and financial impact awareness. It automates resource allocation, balances memory dynamically, and provides robust performance metrics. Users benefit from its ability to prevent resource starvation and offer cost-saving recommendations through continuous management. Executive Dashboards provide insights for cost justification and resource management, making IT operations simpler with AI-driven automation and actionable recommendations.

What are the most important features of IBM Turbonomic?

Automated Resource Allocation: Dynamically allocates resources for optimal performance.
Dynamic Memory Balancing: Adjusts memory allocation to prevent resource shortages.
Right-Sizing: Sizes VMs accurately for Azure and on-prem environments.
Single Platform Management: Manages resources across hybrid and on-premises data centers.
Proactive Performance Optimization: Continuously optimizes performance to prevent issues.
Kubernetes Support: Enhances container management with robust support.
Cost-Saving Recommendations: Provides actionable tips for reducing expenses.

What benefits should users look for in IBM Turbonomic reviews?

Cost Reduction: Helps minimize expenses through efficient resource management.
Performance Improvement: Enhances application performance by preventing resource starvation.
Detailed Insights: Offers comprehensive analytics to justify costs and resource utilization.
Simplified IT Processes: Uses AI automation to streamline operations.

IBM Turbonomic is implemented across multiple industries, including finance for optimizing peak payroll processing, IT for enhanced virtual server management, and healthcare for reliable performance monitoring. Organizations benefit from its robust automation, ensuring maximum efficiency and cost savings.

Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.

Zesty is used for optimizing cloud infrastructure costs, automating resource scaling, providing real-time visibility into spending, and managing unused resources efficiently. It helps maintain budget control while scaling operations, making cloud deployment cost-effective.

Zesty offers a comprehensive approach to cloud cost management, focusing on real-time optimization, resource scaling automation, and spending visibility. Designed to reduce wastage and ensure efficient cloud operations, it integrates seamlessly with existing systems, providing detailed analytics and actionable insights. Users find Zesty's intuitive dashboard and effective cost-saving tools instrumental in maintaining budget control. However, improvements are needed in performance speed, functionality, and support responsiveness. Limited customization options and insufficient onboarding resources also present challenges for new users.

What are Zesty's key features?

Real-time optimization: Continuously adjusts resources to minimize costs.
Automated resource management: Scales resources automatically based on demand.
Intuitive dashboard: Offers user-friendly interface for easy monitoring and management.
Detailed analytics: Provides insights into spending and resource usage.
Seamless integration: Fits smoothly with existing systems without disruption.
Scalability: Supports efficient resource allocation as operations expand.
Customer support: Available for assistance, although sometimes noted as unresponsive.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Cost reduction: Significant savings by minimizing unnecessary cloud expenses.
Efficiency: Automation reduces manual intervention and improves resource management.
Budget control: Enhanced visibility into spending helps maintain financial oversight.
Time savings: Streamlined operations free up time for other strategic tasks.
Improved scalability: Supports growth without compromising performance or costs.

Zesty is implemented across industries that demand efficient cloud cost management and resource optimization. For tech companies, it streamlines scalability and supports rapid growth without ballooning costs. Financial services use it for budget control and to maintain operational efficiency. Educational institutions benefit from its ability to manage large-scale deployments economically. Each industry finds Zesty's automation and analytics crucial for staying competitive and maintaining lean operations.

Sample Customers

IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.

Adobe, Uber, Pega, imgur, Pixable, Blackboard, Keboola, Avalara

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