Turbonomic could be enhanced with predictions based on trends and seasonal effects

Currently Turbonomic bases its recommendations/actions on historical data, you can select which previous period to consider, looking at long-term utilitization or short-term utilization to base the actions on. There probably is a limited period over which detailed performance-data is available, to limit the amount of storage (and processing time) needed. I am assuming that details on VMs from 6 months ago are either no longer available or aggregated (granularity reduced to a few averages a day instead of accurate numbers every second or minute). We are using Turbonomic for IBM Power.

It would be beneficial if Turbonomic could be configured to keep accurate data for a long(er) period, analyze trends and give recommendations based on the current values and the trend. E.g. if a workload needs 1 additional CPU every 3 months, and the load is still rising, it shouldn't have to wait to recommend an additional CPU until the load becomes too high (especially if looking at a long-term average). It would cause recommendations to pop-up earlier and being more accurate.

Another great option would be if Turbonomic could take seasonal influences into account. Some of our customers have higher loads during certain periods of the year, like retailers in the weeks before Christmas, or during the week leading up to Black Friday etc. This is a peak that occurs yearly (or quarterly). It would be great for us if Turbonomic could make a prediction/recommendation for a specific period, based on the same period last year (or the previous period).
In case CPU was added to a VM early December to cope with the Christmas period, you should be able to ask for a recommendation for the upcoming Christmas.
Turbonomic could look into its database and find out if the additional CPU was actually used during the Christmas period. If the current load is similar to the load last year December (prior to adding CPU for Christmas) it is likely the same recommendation will work this year. If the current CPU load is higher than the load last year December (perior to adding CPU for Christmas), the recommended action would probably be to increase CPU even more. And if the added CPU was not used last year, it is probably useless to add CPU this time.

This would make planning for a special "high-load" period, so much easier.