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Intelligent Automated Cloud Resource Management

Key Points

  • Traditional resource estimation fails because it can’t guarantee performance for complex, cloud‑native apps, often leads to costly over‑provisioning, and is unmanageable at human scale in multi‑cloud environments.
  • Turbonomic for IBM Cloud Pak automates resource allocation by continuously analyzing application metrics across compute, network, and storage layers and adjusting capacity in real time without human intervention.
  • The platform uses an AI‑driven supply‑and‑demand model that respects policy and cost constraints, automatically generating and executing balancing actions to meet target user response times while minimizing waste.
  • By providing visibility, insights, and autonomous actions at every stack layer, Turbonomic enables applications to self‑select resources, absorb demand spikes, and eliminate guesswork in resource management.

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# Intelligent Automated Cloud Resource Management **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbgvAIuTiq4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbgvAIuTiq4) **Duration:** 00:03:17 ## Summary - Traditional resource estimation fails because it can’t guarantee performance for complex, cloud‑native apps, often leads to costly over‑provisioning, and is unmanageable at human scale in multi‑cloud environments. - Turbonomic for IBM Cloud Pak automates resource allocation by continuously analyzing application metrics across compute, network, and storage layers and adjusting capacity in real time without human intervention. - The platform uses an AI‑driven supply‑and‑demand model that respects policy and cost constraints, automatically generating and executing balancing actions to meet target user response times while minimizing waste. - By providing visibility, insights, and autonomous actions at every stack layer, Turbonomic enables applications to self‑select resources, absorb demand spikes, and eliminate guesswork in resource management. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbgvAIuTiq4&t=0s) **Intelligent Automated Cloud Resource Management** - It explains why manual or estimation‑based resource planning fails in modern multi‑cloud environments and how IBM’s Turbonomic automates metrics‑driven allocation to prevent over‑provisioning and app performance issues. ## Full Transcript
0:00when it comes to application resource 0:02management for cloud you don't want to 0:04pay for over-provisioning on the other 0:06hand you don't want to risk angry 0:07customers if your applications start 0:09failing due to lack of resources 0:11this begs the question is intelligent 0:14and automated resource management 0:15critical for app performance for modern 0:18organizations the answer is an easy yes 0:21hi i'm dan keen from ibm cloud 0:24when your apps run well your customers 0:26have a great experience and your 0:27development operations team remain 0:29focused on their top initiatives but 0:31before we dive into smarter resource 0:33allocation i'll give three reasons why 0:35traditional estimations simply don't 0:36work 0:38one 0:39estimates can't assure the performance 0:40of increasingly complex 0:42applications two 0:45estimates frequently try to assure 0:46performance by over-provisioning 0:48resource allocations 0:50three 0:51in multi-cloud and cloud-native 0:53environments managing application 0:55resources manually is beyond human scale 0:58so what's the key to overcome these 1:00barriers you need to automate the 1:02allocation of application resources to 1:04absorb shifting user demands and deliver 1:06target response times that's why 1:09turbonomic arm for ibm cloud pack exists 1:12terminomic provides a top-down metrics 1:15driven approach that continuously 1:16analyzes application resource needs 1:19resources are allocated through 1:20visibility insights and actions at every 1:23layer of the application and 1:24infrastructure stack best of all these 1:27decisions are made automatically without 1:29human intervention 1:31let's take a look 1:33in addition to ibm observability by 1:36instant apm terminomic integrates with 1:38other apm systems they retrieve key 1:41application metrics such as 1:42infrastructure compute network and 1:44storage all the resources your 1:46application depends upon 1:48terminomic then determines which 1:50resources contribute to user response 1:52time and provision appropriate capacity 1:54to avoid contention 1:56next let's turn our attention to 1:57insights how can you assure resource 2:00allocations perform in the smartest way 2:02possible 2:03it's all about the ai 2:05terminomic maintains the necessary app 2:07resources to deliver expected end-user 2:09response times while respecting 2:11configuration policies and minimizing 2:13waste 2:14think about the economic principles of 2:16supply and demand 2:18demand is based on production 2:19application metrics the supplies based 2:22on known resources and their policy and 2:24cost constraints 2:26smarter resource allocation means taking 2:28intelligent action 2:29an analytics engine automatically 2:31generates and executes resource 2:33balancing actions when and how you want 2:35them it's done in real time manually 2:38scheduled or part of a workflow 2:40okay let's wrap this up 2:43with terminomic applications choose 2:45their own resources through visibility 2:47insights and actions at every layer of 2:49the stack 2:50applications are dynamically resourced 2:52for performance absorbing peak demands 2:55and adhering your business policies 2:57best of all you can abandon guesswork 3:00and embrace smarter application resource 3:02management thanks for watching if you'd 3:04like to see more videos like this in the 3:06future please click like and subscribe 3:08and if you want to learn more about ibm 3:10terminomic arm for cloudbacks make sure 3:13to check out the links in the 3:14description