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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

Accommodate multi-tier MSP model - Distributor-Partner-End Customer

Ingram Micro is looking for the capability to manage public cloud costs at their Org level (root), partner level (intermediate), and end customer level. Right now they're offering Cloudchekr free of charge to their partners for AWS, but charging t...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under 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

Keep billing data statistics based on the Data Retention policy (currently, it can only display up to 30 days at maximum)

Currently, Cost Breakdown Charts can display data from the last 7 or 30 dayshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.11.0?topic=types-cost-breakdown-charts On the other hand, according to the Data Retention Policy as whole turbonomic, it is possible to ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under 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

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

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).