IT is facing immense pressure, expected to deliver 24/7/365 performance while improving customer experiences and reducing costs. However, it is challenging to maintain app performance in modern cloud-native environments with microservices and Kubernetes. Cloud costs are spiraling out of control, and teams are spending too much time on fixing issues instead of innovating. The pace of change is too fast for humans to keep up.
To address these challenges, IT needs to shift from a reactive to a proactive and preventative approach. IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic offer real-time observability and control that can be used by anyone. With hybrid cloud resource and cost optimization, you can automate safely without compromising performance. Automation allows teams to scale more efficiently, enabling them to build, deploy, and manage applications and services while balancing performance and cost.
Balancing App Performance and Cost in a Complex IT Environment
Modern applications are dynamic and distributed, relying on a mix of infrastructure and technologies across hybrid and multicloud environments. However, many organizations operate with siloed teams and data, which hampers agility and increases costs. Downtime costs an average of $220K per hour, and organizations estimate that 32% of cloud spend is wasted. To maximize the value of applications, integrated solutions are needed to operationalize IT automation at scale.
Real-time Observability for Everyone
Observability provides deep visibility into applications and infrastructure, enabling faster problem identification and resolution. IBM Instana Observability offers automated full-stack visibility, one-second granularity, and three-second notifications. Unlike traditional APM solutions, IBM Instana extends observability to all teams, including DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, ITOps, and development. This ensures that everyone gets the data they need with the right context.
Automation for Optimal App Performance
Automation is key to continuously generating trustworthy actions in real time without human intervention. IBM Turbonomic eliminates the need for overprovisioning and overspending by ensuring that each application gets the necessary resources when needed. It is a preventative system that optimizes compute, storage, and network resources at every layer of the stack. This enables efficient resource utilization and cost savings.
From Reactive to Preventative for Better User Experience
Given the high cost of downtime, organizations need to prioritize application performance. Instead of relying on slow manual processes, it is time to operationalize elasticity for faster incident resolution and prevention. With IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic, you can leverage integrated metrics and topology data to fuel action recommendations. You can take action directly in the Instana UI and gradually automate as trust is built.
This approach builds trustworthy automation by providing data-backed insights into the impact of actions. It creates a virtuous circle of observation, action, and optimization, enabling automation at a scale beyond human capabilities.
To achieve a more preventative approach, three key elements are necessary:
- Observable apps, even in dynamic cloud-native environments
- Contextual data to understand app, platform, and infrastructure relationships
- The ability to confidently automate at scale
IBM Instana with IBM Turbonomic enables this shift, allowing for a more predictive and preventative approach. Developers and DevOps teams can quickly identify and resolve issues before they impact users. Ops teams can automate optimization to ensure optimal app performance at the lowest cost. Code issues can be remediated faster, and budgets can be effectively managed. By taking Turbonomic actions in the Instana UI, teams can increase productivity and gradually embrace continuous automation.
Together, IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic empower teams to be more productive and efficient, delivering applications that are optimized for cost while ensuring performance.
Getting Started
IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic offer real-time observability and software-driven control that anyone can use. By operationalizing elasticity, you can unlock hybrid cloud cost optimization capabilities without sacrificing performance. Automation allows for efficient scaling, enabling the deployment and management of applications and services while balancing performance and cost. Application teams can eliminate infrastructure as a cause of delays, bridging the gap between development and infrastructure.
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