USA – 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. The acquisition complements IBM’s recent acquisition of Instana for application performance monitoring (APM) and observability, and the launch of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps to automate IT Operations using AI. By acquiring Turbonomic, IBM will be able to provide customers with AI-powered automation capabilities that span from AIOps (the use of AI to automate IT Operations) to application and infrastructure observability – all built on Red Hat OpenShift to run across any hybrid cloud environment.Upon close of the acquisition, IBM plans to integrate Turbonomic’s ARM software with the APM and real-time observability capabilities of Instana and the ITOps capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps. By integrating Turbonomic ARM with Instana’s APM capabilities, a user will now be able to automate actions to optimize their underlying IT infrastructure and assure performance across applications. The Turbonomic ARM integration with IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps will enrich the ITOps experience in cross-cloud management by bridging an application’s topology to the resources on which it runs.This ensures customers can deliver quicker resolution of incidents or, if resourcing actions are automated, automatically absorb demand spikes with no degradation to end user response time. Another benefit for customers is the potential for sustainability improvements related to lower server, facilities and carbon usage afforded by Turbonomic’s ability to continually right size resources, without compromising application performance.With this acquisition, IBM plans to leverage Turbonomic’s NPM products and presence in the telecommunications industry to complement its own offerings and expertise in this area, enabling customers to optimize applications running in 5G environments. Turbonomic has built and maintains an OEM relationship with Cisco through Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer. 30/04/2021
