A forward-looking enterprise set out to optimize its IT infrastructure for both performance and environmental responsibility. Facing increased energy costs and sustainability pressures, the organization needed a solution to enhance system efficiency while minimizing its carbon footprint.

By collaborating with Nexright, the company deployed IBM Turbonomic for intelligent resource management and IBM Instana for observability and performance analytics. Together, these platforms created a closed-loop automation system that improved performance, reduced energy consumption, and advanced the organization’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.

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  Business challenge
  
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Business challenge

The enterprise managed a complex hybrid IT environment spanning on-prem, cloud, and containerized workloads. As demand for digital services grew, so did the infrastructure’s energy consumption and operational costs. Manual scaling and monitoring methods were no longer viable to meet performance goals without environmental trade-offs.

Key Challenges:

• Increasing compute demand leading to higher power and cooling consumption.
• Lack of visibility across multi-cloud and on-premise environments.
• Manual optimization cycles causing inefficiency and downtime.
• Difficulty balancing sustainability goals with workload performance.

Solution

Partnering with Nexright, the enterprise implemented IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management (ARM) integrated with IBM Instana Observability to build an intelligent, self-optimizing infrastructure.

IBM Turbonomic continuously analyzed workload demand and automated resource allocation decisions to maintain performance without overprovisioning.
IBM Instana provided granular observability and AI-driven performance monitoring to ensure smooth operations across hybrid environments.

Solution Highlights:

• AI-Powered Optimization: Turbonomic automated workload management to reduce compute waste and improve utilization.
• Full-Stack Visibility: Instana delivered real-time insights into application performance, dependencies, and user experience.
• Sustainability Integration: Resource right-sizing directly contributed to measurable carbon and energy reductions.
• Closed-Loop Automation: Combined analytics and automation eliminated manual intervention, improving consistency and reliability.

Solution components

• IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management (ARM)
• IBM Instana Observability
• IBM Cloud Pak® for AIOps (Optional Integration)

Continuous Application Optimization

Automatically adjusted resources to match workload demand, ensuring performance at the lowest possible energy cost.

Sustainability-Focused Insights

Enabled data-driven tracking of energy savings and CO₂ reduction metrics through optimized compute operations.

Unified Performance Visibility

Correlated real-time observability with AI-driven optimization for seamless decision-making.

Result

• 30% reduction in energy consumption through AI-driven resource efficiency.
• Faster application performance with improved infrastructure responsiveness.
• Reduced MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution) by 40% using automated insights.
• Enhanced sustainability metrics, aligning IT operations with corporate ESG goals.

Turbonomic and Instana have transformed the way we operate — delivering a balance between peak performance and sustainability. With automation and visibility in place, we’re achieving greater efficiency without compromising environmental responsibility.

— Head of IT Operations & Sustainability Programs

A leading financial services provider sought to strengthen the reliability and responsiveness of its digital platforms. As customer demand for instant decisions and seamless experiences grew, maintaining visibility across complex applications became increasingly challenging.

By partnering with Nexright, the organization deployed IBM Instana Observability, a modern, AI-powered solution that delivers full-stack monitoring and real-time insights across distributed systems. This enabled the company to achieve faster issue resolution, improve uptime, and ensure uninterrupted financial services for its clients.

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Business challenge

Operating within a highly regulated financial ecosystem, the enterprise needed real-time visibility into its hybrid and microservices environments to guarantee system reliability and compliance. Existing monitoring tools required extensive configuration, delaying incident resolution and reducing operational agility.

Key Challenges:

• Limited observability across microservices and APIs.
• Manual correlation of incidents causing delayed root cause analysis.
• Lack of automation for performance diagnostics.
• Customer-impacting downtime during high transaction periods.

To maintain trust and operational continuity, the organization required a zero-configuration observability platform that could provide immediate insights and automatic detection of performance anomalies.

Solution

In collaboration with Nexright, the enterprise implemented IBM Instana Observability to gain complete visibility into its complex application environment.

Instana’s AI-driven capabilities provided automatic discovery, dependency mapping, and distributed tracing across every service, application, and user transaction — allowing IT teams to identify and resolve issues in real time before they impacted customers.

Solution Highlights:

• Automated Observability: No manual setup required — the system discovered all services automatically.
• AI-Driven Root Cause Detection: Instant correlation of performance anomalies to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR).
• Full Transaction Visibility: End-to-end tracing of every call and microservice dependency.
• Real-Time Alerting: Immediate notifications to preempt incidents before they affected operations.

Solution components

• IBM Instana Observability
• IBM Cloud Pak® for AIOps (Optional Integration)

Zero Configuration Deployment

Enabled plug-and-play observability with minimal setup, reducing deployment time and manual overhead.

Full-Stack Insight

Delivered visibility into infrastructure, applications, APIs, and user experience in real time.

Predictive Intelligence

Leveraged AI to forecast potential performance degradation and recommend corrective actions automatically.

Result

• High availability: Achieved near-zero downtime across financial applications.
• Faster resolutions: Reduced incident response time by up to 80%.
• Enhanced agility: Accelerated rollout of new digital services and products.
• Improved customer experience: Enabled real-time decision systems with uninterrupted uptime.

Instana gives us end-to-end visibility across all our systems with zero configuration. It’s like having a live map of everything that’s happening — helping us deliver faster, more reliable financial services.

— Head of Application Performance & Reliability