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Billing & Costs & Discounts

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increase scope and usage visibility of Azure VM Reserved Instances

Currently Turbo recommends VI purchases at an Account/Subscription level. (it can also narrow in on Billing Families and Regions). Azure permits RIs to be limited to Enterprise, Management Group (that’s a collection of Subscriptions), Subscription...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Report on Amortized Cost Per AWS Account

We need Turbonomic to report amortized costs per AWS to match what is being reported in CloudHealth (and ultimately what is being charged-back to Application owners).
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Support for Azure SQL reserved capacity

Product doesn't currently support Azure SQL (PaaS) reserved capacity. This functionality is similar conceptually to Reserved Instances for VMs; however, it applies to SQL. Impact: Turbonomic will potentially create pending actions to scale a SQL d...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Support for centralized Azure Hybrid Benefit (centralized AHUB)

Azure came up with Centralized AHUB support for SQL licenses. Similar in concept to CUDs, where the customers can create a pool of licenses and have the SQL instances (SQL databases, managed instances etc ) consume the license from the pool. When ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Within Turbo I should not only be able to see potential savings but the current cost of a business application

whilst turbo shows the potential savings of each change it also shows the current costs, however when looking at a wider scope like the business application this information is lost, ideally within the business application overview or details page...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

My customer would like to establish a fee structure for SMB.

Background I understand that Turbonomic's target is the users who have large system which is composed over 500 VMs. My customer is considering embedding Turbonomic to their own cloud management service, and they try to sell it to SMB. Issues Curre...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic to exclude discovering Cancelled Subscriptions

Discovering Cancelled Subscriptions lead to get the data of resources which are not actually billing and will have false savings reported from the recommendations of its resources.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

if a client has a special RI Discount % with Microsoft on top of the regular RI savings - that discount should be included under the effective cost column in the Discount Inventory Widget

If Turbo can't see this special RI Discount % , then the cost of the RIs are wrong. This causes issues in reporting and also affects the decision of whether the RI should be purchased or not. If this special RI Discount is NOT visible through any ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Customer wants to be informed which Azure Reserved Instances are not visible to the Turbo Azure Service Principal. This leads to improved cost information on savings.

See IBM Case TS011934194. In the discount inventory report available under Cloud, the column cost savings is wrongly indicated. Instead of calculating the savings by subtracting the PAYGO rate minus the 3 year RI reserved rate, the report is showi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Functionality already exists

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