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CelerData vs IBM Turbonomic comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CelerData
Ranking in Cloud Analytics
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Turbonomic
Ranking in Cloud Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
205
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (2nd), Cloud Management (4th), Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), IT Financial Management (3rd), IT Operations Analytics (9th), Cloud Cost Management (3rd), AIOps (18th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud Analytics category, the mindshare of CelerData is 2.6%. The mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 21.5%, down from 22.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Turbonomic21.5%
CelerData2.6%
Other75.9%
Cloud Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Jorge Novo - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized analytics has improved real-time campaign reporting and accelerated dashboard insights
CelerData can be improved in several areas. I have identified issues where the transportation and documentation do not reflect the reality of the models, and I found data points issues related to bugs in the code, so for the open-source version, CelerData needs to be more consistent and reliable compared to the cloud version. Regarding CelerData's AI capabilities, I believe the governance and security need to be tested and integrated, and it is still too early in development to make a good determination. Concerning CelerData's AI capabilities, the accuracy and reliability of output depend significantly on the quality of log troubleshooting, which I believe is one of the most important parts.
Dan Ambrose - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer 4 at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Helps visibility, bridges the data gap, and frees up time
We use IBM Turbonomic in a hybrid cloud environment. Although it supports multi-cloud capabilities, we currently operate in a single-cloud setting. Turbonomic offers visibility into our environment's performance, spanning across applications, underlying infrastructure, and protection resources. The visibility and analytics help to bridge the data gap between disparate IT teams such as applications and infrastructure. This is important for awareness collaboration, cost saving, and helping to design and improve our application. Enhanced visibility and data analytics have contributed to a significant reduction in our mean time to resolve. Tools like Turbonomic provide crucial visualization and insights, empowering us to make data-driven decisions instead of relying on assumptions as we did before. This newfound transparency translates to a massive improvement, going from complete darkness to having a clear 100 percent view of the situation. Although our applications are not optimized for the cloud we have seen some improvement in response time. IBM Turbonomic empowers us to achieve more with fewer people thanks to automation. Previously, customers frequently contacted us requesting resource increases to resolve issues. Now, we have a tool that allows us to objectively assess their needs, leading to a deeper understanding of our applications. This solution also generates significant cost savings in the cloud and optimizes hardware utilization within our data centers. Its AI algorithm intelligently allocates servers on hosts, maximizing efficiency without compromising performance. By fine-tuning resource allocation without causing performance bottlenecks, Turbonomic extends the lifespan of existing hardware, postponing the need for new purchases. This effectively stretches our capital expenditure budget. We started to see the benefits of IBM Turbonomic within the first 60 days. IBM is a fantastic partner. Their tech support has been outstanding, and the product itself is excellent - a very solid offering. By automating resource management with Turbonomic, our engineers are freed up to focus on more strategic initiatives like innovation and ongoing organizational projects. Previously, manually adding resources was a time-consuming process that interrupted workflows. Now, automation handles scaling efficiently, saving us thousands of man-hours and significant costs. It has illuminated the need for SetOps. It has highlighted areas of overspending, and the actions we've taken have demonstrated significant cost savings. IBM Turbonomic has positively impacted our overall application performance. IBM Turbonomic has helped reduce both CAPEX and OPEX. It has also significantly reduced cloud build times.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I appreciate CelerData for the agility we have to ingest data."
"CelerData has positively impacted my organization because we improved the production of new analytics; we improved the production by 30%."
"CelerData has positively impacted my organization by providing faster response times on reports, especially for real-time data, and I am finally able to centralize all integrated data from different systems for dashboards and reporting."
"The biggest value I'm getting out of VMTurbo right now is the complete hands-off management of equalizing the usage in my data center."
"The primary features we have focused on are reporting and optimization."
"One of the most valuable tools we encountered with Turbonomic was not even the automation tool we bought it for, but the sizing tool."
"With a high memory contention environment Turbonomic has been invaluable in maintaining excellent performance across all of our clusters."
"Within a week of running Turbonomic we were able to see clearly which guest systems needed to be resized and, especially, moved to other nodes within our clusters to obtain the optimal performance."
"It has increased the utilization of our hosts without sacrificing performance."
"My experience with Turbonomic has been exceptional, they've offered me a $25 gift card to write a review of their company but I'd gladly write them a review for free."
"It also brings up a list of machines and if something is under-provisioned and needs more compute power it will tell you, 'This server needs more compute power, and we suggest you raise it up to this level.' It will even automatically do it for you. In Azure, you don't have to actually go into the cloud provider to resize. You can just say, 'Apply these resizes,' and Turbonomic uses some back-end APIs to make the changes for you."
 

Cons

"I have identified issues where the transportation and documentation do not reflect the reality of the models, and I found data points issues related to bugs in the code, so for the open-source version, CelerData needs to be more consistent and reliable compared to the cloud version."
"A more interactive dashboard with integrated features."
"They have a long road map when we ask for certain things that will make the product better. It takes time, but that's understandable because there are other things that are higher on the priority list."
"We have no ROI so far."
"Decrease the cost."
"Turbonomic is not easy to use out of the box."
"It does not fully understand our DR/SRM (active/standby) infrastructure as we have hosts with nothing on them."
"It would be nice if it was easier to remove a host from that we would not want to manage (licenses)."
"Turbonomic can modernize the look and feel, making it more user-friendly to access and obtain information."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"You should understand the cost of your physical servers and how much time and money you are spending year over year on expanding your virtual farm."
"The pricing is in line with the other solutions that we have. It's not a bargain software, nor is it overly expensive."
"I consider the pricing to be high."
"Licensing is per socket, so load up on the cores rather than a lot of lower core CPUs."
"What I can advise is to trial the product, taking advantage of the Turbonomic pre-sales implemention support and kickstart training."
"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."
"Contact the Turbonomic sales team, explain your needs and what you're looking to monitor. They will get a pre-sales SE on the phone and together work up a very accurate quote."
"I have not seen Turbonomic's new pricing since IBM purchased it. When we were looking at it in my previous company before IBM's purchase, it was compatible with other tools."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
44%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business42
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CelerData?
I have no comments regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing.
What needs improvement with CelerData?
CelerData can be improved in several areas. I have identified issues where the transportation and documentation do not reflect the reality of the models, and I found data points issues related to b...
What is your primary use case for CelerData?
My main use case for CelerData is data analytics. I primarily use CelerData for data analytics at CVS Health, examining models for future campaigns and using different data types and subsets to gen...
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Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager
 

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Sample Customers

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