Biggish Blue is to acquire software firm Turbonomic for a rumoured $2 billion.
For those not in the know, Turbonomic assists companies with application performance. IBM says the acquisition will “complement the recent acquisition of Instana and launch of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps”.
Senior vice president, IBM Cloud and Data Platform Rob Thomas said: “The Turbonomic acquisition is another example of our commitment to making the most impactful investments to advance this strategy and ensure customers find the most innovative ways to fuel their digital transformations.”
The deal will ensure companies can “overcome the high costs associated with managing performance and availability for multiple applications sharing an increasingly complex hybrid cloud environment”, IBM claims.
IBM will integrate Turbonomic’s ARM software with Instana’s “APM and real-time observability capabilities” and the “ITOps capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps.
The idea is to give customers full visibility into what is going on throughout their hybrid cloud infrastructure and across their entire enterprise.
By adding Turbonomic’s software to the business, IBM says customers “can deliver a quicker resolution of incidents”, as well as being able to “automatically absorb demand spikes with no degradation to end-user response time”.
The acquisition will help the 5G transition, IBM claims, while building on its “ecosystem of business partners” by using Turbonomics’ link with Cisco to “help customers accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud and AI”.
