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Cloudability

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Role Visibility By Product

Currently, when assigning a role in Frontdoor, it displays roles from all IBM products, which causes confusion during the assignment process. Ideally, if roles are assigned within Cloudability, it should only show the roles that have permissions f...
2 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 1 Submitted

Improve the way Azure Disk recommendations are displayed in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing

When looking at Azure Disk recommendations in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing, the THROUGHPUT (MB/S) chart of the Recommendations page is confusing, as the units are actually in Mbps. Please remove the capitalisation so the units are unambiguo...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Submitted

Add Instance type and family dimensions to the IBMC data

We don't see this data for IBMC today, but it's essential for monitoring and managing the resources.We want to create a report for AI / GPU usage by flavor, but we can't because we don't have any data on the instance that can help with this.This i...
about 3 hours ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Support for UPN Configuration for SSO Login

Customer want to have the Apptio side utilize UPN instead of email address. This is because Customer have a subset of users that log in with a UPN that doesn't match their primary email address, and they cannot log into cloudability.
about 3 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

More of a Bug than an idea. Currently unutilized part of a Savings plan shows Reservations class as "Standard" which is a class suitable for RIs.

For a customer Reservation Class is showing as "Standard" despite the Lease Type being Savings Plan. This happens specifically for Transaction Type "Recurring Charge". Implecation being that the unused part of a Savings Plan is being tagged under ...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add GPU Utilization metrics in Cloudability

We have a subscription owner whose application uses only N-type VMs (GPU-Optimized VMs). They mentioned that the relevant metric for them is GPU utilization. However, GPU utilization is not currently available as a metric in Cloudability. In the f...
about 7 hours ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Enhanced change log and version control system

Summary: Introduce a change log and version control system to track modifications made to business mappings, tags/labels, account group mappings, and views within the platform, allowing users to view, compare, and revert changes as needed. Use cas...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

'Turbonomic Parker' role not available in Cloudability Premium

Turbonomic standard software has a user named 'Parker' allowing users to manage start/stop and schedule of their VMs in the parking feature. Parker role only gives them access to this. This 'Parker' role doesn't exist in Cloudability Premium which...

Add more resources for Sustainability Reporting

Currently, Cloudability supports a limited set of resources in sustainability reporting, including only Azure Compute (non-GPU), Managed Disks, and Managed Databases. This restricts customers from gaining comprehensive insights into their sustaina...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Planned for future release