- Addition of Turbonomic will enable businesses
to assure application performance using AI and cut costs by
optimizing the deployment of IT resources across
development, test and production environments
- Complements IBM's recent acquisition of Instana and launch
of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps to address AI-driven automation
of IT; Powered by Red Hat OpenShift to run applications on any
cloud
ARMONK, N.Y., April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
(NYSE:IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to
acquire Turbonomic, an Application Resource Management
(ARM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) software provider
based in Boston, MA. 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. This will ensure they
can dynamically and more efficiently assess and manage the
performance of any application, anywhere. Financial details
were not disclosed.
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 is the only company that 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.
"IBM continues to reshape its future as a hybrid cloud and AI
company," said Rob Thomas, Senior
Vice President, IBM Cloud and Data Platform. "The Turbonomic
acquisition is yet another example of our commitment to making the
most impactful investments to advance this strategy and ensure
customers find the most innovative ways to fuel their digital
transformations."
With the acquisition of Turbonomic, IBM will help companies
overcome the high costs associated with managing performance and
availability for multiple applications sharing an increasingly
complex hybrid cloud environment. Given these challenges,
organizations are seeking to adopt AIOps for full stack
observability and visibility into their IT resources so they can
deliver high availability and performance of applications at lower
costs.
"We believe that AI-powered automation has become inevitable,
helping to make all information-centric jobs more productive," said
Dinesh Nirmal, General Manager, IBM
Automation. "That's why IBM continues to invest in providing our
customers with a one-stop shop of AI-powered automation
capabilities that spans business processes and IT. The addition of
Turbonomic now takes our portfolio another major step forward by
ensuring customers will have full visibility into what is
going on throughout their hybrid cloud infrastructure, and across
their entire enterprise."
"Businesses are looking for AI-driven software to help them
manage the scale and complexity challenges of running applications
cross-cloud," said Ben Nye, CEO,
Turbonomic. "Turbonomic not only prescribes actions, but allows
customers to take them. The combination of IBM and Turbonomic will
continuously assure target application response times even during
peak demand."
Turbonomic provides businesses with its ARM software that
simultaneously optimizes the performance, compliance, and cost of
applications in real-time. 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 to help
customers assure application performance and minimize costs by
driving optimization across development, test and production
environments.
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 major 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.
As 5G adoption continues to grow, enterprises are also looking
to move workloads to the edge. This is driving networking to
be an integral component of the application deployment strategy.
With this acquisition, IBM plans to leverage Turbonomic's NPM
products and strong presence in the telecommunications industry to
complement its own offerings and expertise in this area, helping
customers intelligently optimize applications running in 5G
environments.
Turbonomic has built and maintains an OEM relationship with
Cisco through Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer. The
acquisition also builds on IBM's growing investment in its
ecosystem of business partners such as Cisco to help customers
accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud and AI.
Today's news underscores IBM's continued focus on providing
organizations with a one-stop shop of AI-powered automation
capabilities for business and IT all built on Red Hat OpenShift,
helping to automate their entire enterprise, from robotic process
automation (RPA), to AIOps, ARM and process mining. This is the
latest move in a series of recent IBM acquisitions – including
myInvenio, Instana and WDG Automation; ecosystem
partnerships; organic R&D – including the launch of Cloud
Pak for Watson AIOps; and customer adoption by leading brands
-including CaixaBank, PNC Financial Services and Banco
Popular.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. It
is anticipated the transaction will close in the second quarter of
2021.
For more information on today's announcement, please
visit: www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/ibm-to-acquire-turbonomic
To learn more about IBM AI-powered Automation, please
visit: https://www.ibm.com/automation
Media Contact:
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Abloeser
IBM Media Relations
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Sarah Murphy
IBM Media Relations
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