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Turbonomic is a
resource-simulation software
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At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
company headquartered in
Boston, MA
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and owned by
IBM. The company was originally named VMTurbo.
Reception
In 2011,
Gartner
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named Turbonomic as a Cool Vendor in Cloud Management. In 2016, Turbonomic was listed as the top product for Virtualization Management in a report by
IDG
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and IT Central Station. Turbonomic has made five appearances to the
Inc. 5000, and made the
Forbes
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Cloud 100 four times. In 2020,
Fast Company
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History
''Fast Company'' was launched in November 1995 by Alan Web ...
named Turbonomic to their Best Workplaces for Innovators List. The company was also deemed a Vendor to Watch in
AIOps
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by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) for its combination of abstraction, analytics, and automation engine that continually assures performance of a customer’s applications.
History
The company formed partnerships with
Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...
and IBM, entering into
OEM
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agreements to bring Application Resource Management to a larger customer base.
Since its founding in 2008 or 2009, Turbonomic had raised more than $250M from venture capital firms including
Bain Capital Ventures
Bain Capital Ventures LLC is the venture capital division within Bain Capital, which has approximately $160 billion of assets under management worldwide. The firm's early-stage investments have included Attentive, Bloomreach, Clari, Docusign, Fl ...
and
Highland Capital Partners
Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco. Highland has raised over $4 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 280 companies, with 47 IPOs and 134 Acquisi ...
.
The company's product was updated in 2017 for use with
cloud computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...
platforms.
The company was originally named VMTurbo and changed its name to Turbonomic in August 2017.
Turbonomic acquired ParkMyCloud and
SevOne
SevOne is a software company that was founded in 2005. It was named after the slang for the " severity one" performance problems network managers face.
SevOne was acquired by Turbonomic in 2019. Then as part of Turbonomic, the SevOne product li ...
in 2019.
IBM acquired Turbonomic on June 17, 2021.
The company's product simulates
supply and demand
In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a Market (economics), market. It postulates that, Ceteris paribus, holding all else equal, in a perfect competition, competitive market, the unit price for a ...
forces in order to efficiently allocate resources such as computing, database, memory and storage.
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2008 establishments in Massachusetts
Business software companies
Cloud computing providers
Virtualization software
Companies based in Boston
American companies established in 2008
Software companies established in 2008
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Defunct software companies of the United States
2021 mergers and acquisitions
IBM acquisitions
IBM subsidiaries