IBM has revealed it is set to acquire Turbonomic in the latest of a series of cloud computing related takeovers. Turbonomic adds to IBM's arsenal of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered hybrid cloud offerings and is the latest in big blue's bid to provide enterprises AI-based services to manage their networks and workloads. The acquisition of Turbonic, which provides tools for application resource and network performance management, is part of IBMs attempts to apply AI to enhance IT operations (AIOps). While IBM did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, based on Turbonomic's recent valuation based on its last funding round, it is estimated to have cost between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, according to reports. IBM argues the acquisition puts it in a position to offer full stack application observability and management in the increasingly complex hybrid cloud environments in today's enterprises.

Many IT teams start out by manually purchasing Reserved Instances (RIs) and manually rightsizing cloud instances to try to keep a lid on cloud costs. But then – cloud usage grows and changes accelerate. New instance types are released. It's hard to manually utilize the entire RI portfolio, but if you under-buy RIs, you're leaving huge cost savings on the table. Please join our live webinar on Wednesday, May 23rd at 1pm to learn how Turbonomic's AI-powered decision engine continuously optimizes RI recommendations in concert with resizing automation – to drive the elasticity AND cost savings you want and expect from the cloud Mor Cohen-Tal, Cloud CTO, is Turbonomic's leading cloud evangelist and thought leader.