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IBM Technology Expert Labs PLAN Automation Turbonomic Offering on Azure
The objective behind our briefing is to understand your needs and help you lever our FinOps skills to lever your Turbonomic on Azure based on our best practices and deep, product technical skills.
Our global subject matter experts will assist you on how you might make one or more of the Turbonomic on Azure capabilities come to life for your organization. Through thoughtful discovery and planning sessions, you will share your unique priorities and requirements with our technical consultants who will determine the best course of action(s) for your organization to take on achieving desired results.
Our subject matter experts can help you deploy with the optimal Azure platform configurations for a virtual machine or clustered Kubernetes hybrid cloud environment.
Business Challenges (that will be reviewed and discussed in the briefing) may include:
Today's scenarios whereby clients are over-provisioned (and subsequently overpaying). Validation of your IT environment and systems that will avoid performance risks which can lead to negative business impacts such as: • Failure to meet promised service levels, resulting in disappointed customers, users or violations in SLAs and contracts • Bottlenecks in back office systems impact overall system performance and can result in non-competitive situations • Technology performance may not be easily remedied without costly upgrades or new solutions • Hardware and software may not be scalable and may lack the ability to “keep up” with business expansion • Performance problems arise due to errors in implementing load balancing or other performance remedies
Outcomes Desired (based on quantities of days purchased) may include value drivers of Turbonomic:
• Application SLO Adherence & Incident Avoidance: Continuous Optimization to meet Service Level • Targets • IT Modernization/Journey to Microservices • IT Sustainability: Reduce energy usage & carbon footprint to support IT sustainability goals • FinOps: Maximize the business value of Azure cloud platform or hybrid cloud
Key Activities (based on quantities of days purchased) may include:
a. Review product use case mappings to business use cases, outcomes and goals b. Validate sponsorship and define roles and responsibilities c. Review technology platforms to integrate with Turbonomic d. Discuss Performance Management framework (i.e. OKRs, KPIs) e. Review data centre architecture related to the software deployment requirements (Azure platform or hybrid cloud) f. Review non-functional and data access requirements (security, availability, performance, scalability)
Deliverables may include:
Pre-requisites:
Purchase of Turbonomic Software on Azure here:
https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/ibm-usa-ny-armonk-hq-6275750-ibmcloud-asperia.turbonomic_azure?tab=Overview
Value Proposition:
Through an optimized implementation of Turbonomic, clients can get ahead of the challenges discussed in the briefing. This briefing will discuss how IBM Technology Expert Labs Plan Turbonomic Offering is the first step to working with IBM Turbonomic deep, product technical experts to help you prioritize and put a plan in action.
With IBM's deep, product related skills and multitudes of customer engagements around the globe we can ensure that customers will benefit from learning from our best practices and leverage this on-going.
Customers will learn in our briefing how you can benefit from any pre-built asset(s) our technical consultants have curated to help you accelerate your adoption of Turbonomic on Azure or hybrid cloud and reduce risk.