Optimize application performance: improve performance and reduce costs

Application performance is not just a concern for most organizations. This is an important factor in business success. As organizations strive for positive user experiences, achieving optimal application performance while minimizing costs becomes paramount. These experiences can make or break your business, which is why high-performance priorities between applications cannot be negotiated. What you need is a solution that not only protects the performance of your mission-critical applications, but does more by providing cost savings, time efficiencies, and financial savings.

The importance of optimizing application performance

In a world where user experience can control the trajectory of your business, optimizing application development and performance is essential. Poor application performance can have a negative impact on your organization and can cause users to become frustrated and distrustful, causing them to abandon your product and even switch to a competitor. A variety of issues can cause app performance issues, from application bottlenecks to network latency to bugs. Working to optimize application performance means taking a strategic approach to improving basic functionality and the overall user experience.

Positive changes in application performance optimization

To optimize performance, organizations must not only address app performance issues, but also address the important aspect of cost reduction. This approach opens the door to significant cost savings by tailoring resource allocation precisely to the needs of the application. There are three essential components that organizations must master to achieve optimal application performance in the most cost-effective manner.

1. Dynamic resource allocation

Traditional static resource allocation methods often result in inefficiencies, resulting in low resource utilization, over-provisioning of resources, and conversely, performance bottlenecks. Instead, organizations need a solution that ensures resources are allocated precisely where and when they are needed, optimizing performance without unnecessary resource expenditures.

2. Sustained application performance

Traditional monitoring tools are inadequate for dynamic workloads and cannot keep up with evolving application requirements. To ensure continuous application performance, organizations must adopt a solution that automatically analyzes application workloads and adjusts them in real time. An in-depth, proactive, and automated approach is important because it mitigates the risk of performance issues while providing a smooth and reliable end-user experience.

3. Real-time observability

Advanced observability capabilities allow you to seamlessly untangle the complexities of your applications and infrastructure. This aspect is critical to optimizing app performance as high-fidelity data provides real-time insights. However, a traditional observability framework is not required. Instead, organizations should leverage approaches that provide users with a deeper understanding of their applications and allow for automated incident resolution.

By dynamically allocating resources exactly where and when they are needed, organizations can optimize performance without unnecessary spending, while continuous application performance improves reliability in the face of ever-changing demands. Meanwhile, real-time observability provides deep insight into application performance, allowing you to proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact users. IBM® Turbonomic® is the key to success in optimizing application performance. And when users integrate Turbonomic with IBM Instana®, organizations can leverage a comprehensive solution that goes beyond traditional boundaries and generic performance monitoring tools.

Optimize performance through automation

Turbonomic revolutionizes application performance optimization by leveraging AI and machine learning algorithms to analyze real-time performance data and provide insights into application response times and transaction times. Turbonomic integrates all elements of an organization’s technology stack, regardless of provider, through APIs and generates actions to address performance issues. As performance improves, costs and resource utilization are simultaneously optimized.

Whether your application resources are underutilized or over-provisioned, Turbonomic optimizes performance while lowering costs by dynamically allocating those resources exactly where they are needed as demand changes. Turbonomic helps engineers, architects, and cloud infrastructure operators proactively optimize application CPU, memory, storage, and network resources through automation. By continuously analyzing application workloads and making real-time adjustments, Turbonomic builds continuous application performance that mitigates performance issues, optimizes costs, and delivers a seamless end-user experience.

Real-time observability and incident resolution

Instana complements Turbonomic’s capabilities by providing advanced, real-time observability of application performance. Instana’s AI-powered monitoring capabilities give organizations deep insight into their applications, allowing them to identify potential issues before they impact performance. Instana’s easy-to-use dashboards allow organizations to gain visibility into performance metrics and consider application dependencies. Instana ensures continuous application performance from an APM perspective and maintains a smooth end-user experience through automatic incident resolution and proactive monitoring.

Improve application performance with IBM Turbonomic and IBM Instana

Combining the capabilities of IBM Turbonomic and IBM Instana creates a seamless user experience and optimizes application performance and resource usage while effectively managing costs. Turbonomic’s dynamic IT resource management capabilities ensure that IT resources are continuously optimized in real time to meet application demands without over- or under-provisioning. By intelligently automating critical tasks and optimizing resources across hybrid and multicloud environments, Turbonomic maximizes application performance while minimizing costs.

Meanwhile, Instana’s fully automated, real-time observability platform provides continuous, high-quality data and end-to-end tracking, helping DevOps, SREs, platform engineers, IT Ops, and development access the data they need with contextual insights. This real-time visibility allows you to proactively identify and resolve performance issues, providing a smooth and reliable end-user experience. Turbonomic and Instana provide organizations with a comprehensive solution that addresses the root cause of application performance issues, no longer needing troubleshooting or low-bandwidth end users. Together, they create a more powerful solution that optimizes performance, streamlines operations, and increases cost efficiencies, ultimately helping businesses achieve their goals.

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