Case Study: City and County of Denver achieves 33% lower CPU and RAM usage with IBM Turbonomic

How Denver bridged the gap between application owners and IT operations

The City and County of Denver, which supports more than 50 agencies and a virtualized environment of 1,500 VMs, needed better visibility into performance and resource usage. Its IT Operations team was relying on disparate monitoring tools and manual troubleshooting, and often overprovisioned resources to try to ensure application performance. Denver turned to IBM and the IBM Turbonomic hybrid cloud cost optimization solution to create a common source of truth for right-sizing its environment.

With IBM Turbonomic, Denver gained full-stack visibility, concrete data for application owners, and AI-powered resourcing recommendations to guide resizing decisions. The city achieved a 33% reduction in CPU and RAM usage while maintaining performance, improved planning for future requests, and avoided the need to buy new hosts prematurely, each of which can cost up to USD 30,000.

City and County of Denver

Nick Steensland

Service Delivery Manager