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IBM Turbonomic vs YaRKEN comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Turbonomic
Ranking in IT Financial Management
3rd
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 Operations Analytics (9th), Cloud Analytics (1st), Cloud Cost Management (3rd), AIOps (18th)
YaRKEN
Ranking in IT Financial Management
1st
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the IT Financial Management category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 20.1%, up from 19.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of YaRKEN is 12.7%, up from 12.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Financial Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
YaRKEN12.7%
IBM Turbonomic20.1%
Other67.2%
IT Financial Management
 

Featured Reviews

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.
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Associate technical desktop support at Digitaltrack soluctions Pvt. ltd
Targeted phishing simulations have strengthened employee awareness and reduced human error risk
The best features YaRKEN offers are phishing simulations, customizable security awareness trainings, detailed reporting, user risk scoring, and campaign automation.I find myself relying the most on phishing simulations because they provide a realistic way to assess user behavior, identify high-risk employees, and improve awareness through targeted training. One standout feature of YaRKEN is the detailed reporting and user risk scoring, which helps security teams measure progress and focus training where it is needed most. YaRKEN has positively impacted my organization by improving employee awareness, reducing phishing susceptibility, strengthening the organization's security culture, and helping to lower the risk of human error-related security incidents.

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

Pros

"It has allowed me to manage over 19 sites with one person after losing two supporting staff members without a negative impact on operations."
"The product has worked great; it has become a set and forget tool for us which is a good thing."
"The most valuable feature would have to be the out of box automation of VM placement."
"The proactive monitoring of all our open enrollment applications has improved our organization. We have used it to size applications that we are moving to the cloud. Therefore, when we move them out there, we have them appropriately sized. We use it for reporting to current application owners, showing them where they are wasting money. There are easy things to find for an application, e.g., they decommissioned the server, but they never took care of the storage. Without a tool like this, that storage would just sit there forever, with us getting billed for it."
"With a fully automated environment, I never need to worry about host resource utilization or guest resource consumption."
"I like Turbonomic's built-in reporting. It provides a ton of information out of the box, so I don't have to build panels for the monthly summaries and other reports I need to present to management. We get better performance and bottleneck reporting from this than we do from our older EMC software."
"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."
"Customer service has always been exceptional and technical support has been very quick to respond and very knowledgeable."
"YaRKEN has positively impacted my organization by improving employee awareness, reducing phishing susceptibility, strengthening the organization's security culture, and helping to lower the risk of human error-related security incidents."
 

Cons

"Licensing for clusters with few VMs (i.e. HA focus over consolidation focus)."
"This is a very powerful tool that we don't use to its fullest, mostly due to the GUI."
"There are a lot of preconfigured reports that can be ran within Turbonomics for some of the more common information needed. To do a custom report you have to create a SQL query string and add it as a report to gather custom information."
"Would like some better canned reports allowing for average utilization of VMs in the environment during a defined range of hours."
"While old dashboard view is good, keep improving on the new Dashboard as I feel it is much better."
"Remove the need for special in-house knowledge and development."
"The new HTML5 version is not as user friendly as I had hoped."
"If they would educate their customers to understand the latest updates, that would help customers... Also, there are a lot of features that are not available in Turbonomic. For example, PaaS component optimization and automation are still in the development phase."
"YaRKEN could be improved with more training content, deeper third-party integrations, enhanced reporting customization, and a more intuitive administration interface."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Everybody tells me the pricing is high. But the ROIs are great."
"Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced."
"I don't know the current prices, but I like how the licensing is based on the number of instances instead of sockets, clusters, or cores. We have some VMs that are so heavy I can only fit four on one server. It's not cost-effective if we have to pay more for those. When I move around a VM SQL box with 30 cores and a half-terabyte of RAM, I'm not paying for an entire socket and cores where people assume you have at least 10 or 20 VMs on that socket for that pricing."
"I'm not involved in any of the billing, but my understanding is that is fairly expensive."
"I consider the pricing to be high."
"IBM Turbonomic is an investment that we believe will deliver positive returns."
"When we have expanded our licensing, it has always been easy to make an ROI-based decision. So, it's reasonably priced. We would like to have it cheaper, but we get more benefit from it than we pay for it. At the end of the day, that's all you can hope for."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
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Small Business42
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
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What needs improvement with YaRKEN?
I measure improvements by tracking phishing click rates, training completion rates, repeat offender trends, and the number of reported phishing emails, all of which have shown steady improvement ov...
What is your primary use case for YaRKEN?
My main use case for YaRKEN at Track Solutions is for cybersecurity awareness training, phishing simulation, and measuring employee security awareness across the organization.I run simulated phishi...
What advice do you have for others considering YaRKEN?
Regarding YaRKEN's AI capabilities, its governance and security are strong with appropriate access controls, secure handling of training data, and features that support compliance and user priv...
 

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