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Turbonomic support for Management Group scope Reservations (Azure)

As a Cloud Administrator, I would like Turbonomic Actions to consider my Reserved Instances scoped to my Management Groups in Azure so I can ensure that the actions being recommended by Turbonomic will not scale out of an RI. Azure RI’s can be app...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Use Billing Data for Savings Widget Calculations

The Savings Widget currently bases its savings potential on CSP list prices. However, since most organizations have discounted rates per SKU, the projected savings amounts may not reflect actual cost reductions. Request is to integrate billing dat...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 3 Future consideration

Default Dashbaord Assignement at Scale

Customers need the ability to set default dashboards at scale, either globally for all users or by user group. The current system requires manual configuration for each individual user through the UI, with no API support for automation. Proposed S...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration

Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

change of column from Azure CSP cost report for customer price

We have an environment where the end customer pricing is already configured in Azure CSP. The Azure cost exports contain a column AX "paygCostInBillingCurrency" with the end customer pricing. Cloudability currently only uses the column AU "costInB...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Future consideration

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Add support for Azure Reservation Azure SQL

Turbonomic is currently supporting Azure Virtual Machine Reservations ensuring that the existing reservation portfolio is optimally utilized. You can also buy Azure SQL RI's. Thus, please add support for reservations/reserved instances for other s...
5 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 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Azure Billing Currency Mismatch Warning

When using Azure Billing to an EA target we faced a problem recently that Turbonomic would fetch data with mismatching currencies. Is it possible for the engineering team to set a sort of check like in the target config for Azure Billing. It would...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration