Gary Prindle, a Senior Systems Engineer at Carhartt, convinced IT leadership under Tim Masey, VP of IT Infrastructure & Security, to install IBM Turbonomic. Using IBM Turbonomic, the team clarified the resource relationships between Carhartt’s hardware, its virtualization and its APM solution, stitching together the company’s complete application stack. The IBM Turbonomic software then identified opportunities for improvement, including adjusting Java Heap sizes, powering off low-use systems, adjusting VM hardware for best performance, and consolidating VMs for performance as well as efficiency. Following IBM Turbonomic’s prescriptive actions, Prindle and his team were able to prevent performance issues from occurring during the holiday season (and beyond), driving record sales.
Carhartt has fully automated VM placement with IBM Turbonomic, helping improve overall performance while reducing resource consumption by 15%. By integrating IBM Turbonomic’s resourcing actions into the company’s ServiceNow workflows, Carhartt is beginning to automate VM resizing as well.
Carhartt IT has also been tasked to go 100% public cloud by 2022. By using IBM Turbonomic to optimize initial cloud deployments, the IT team found that they could improve the efficiency of their Microsoft Azure cloud environment by 45%, while assuring workload performance.