Overview

Everything you need to optimize IBM WebSphere

Start your journey to containers with IBM® WebSphere® Hybrid Edition. On the way, take advantage of flexible entitlements and tools for modernization to get up to eight times more capacity* within your existing entitlement.
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Use cases

Optimize entitlements

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Optimize entitlements

Adjust your entitlements based on your business needs. Migrate entitlements to IBM WebSphere Liberty to increase server capacity and decrease costs.

Modernize applications

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Modernize applications

Use IBM Cloud® Transformation Advisor and IBM Mono2Micro to help assess the cloud readiness of your applications, explore options for containerization and microservices, and get assistance on adapting code.

Cloud-enable your IT

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Cloud-enable your IT

Realize the benefits of cloud infrastructure and methodologies with the right tools, runtimes and WebSphere versions.

Benefits

Reduce costs

Identify which WebSphere applications can easily move to containers for immediate savings.

Increase efficiency

Manage costs, enhancements and security proactively throughout the application lifecycle.

Maximize ROI

Take advantage of modernization guidance to gain new value from existing applications.

Enhance security

Reduce risk with O-TTPS accredited solutions, server certificates and transport layer security.

Capabilities

A unified WebSphere solution

IBM WebSphere Application Server

Develop, launch and optimize applications across on-premises and cloud environments.

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IBM WebSphere Liberty

Run Java applications in the cloud with a low memory footprint and fast startup time.

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IBM WebSphere Network Deployment

Deploy large-scale and mission critical applications in a flexible, secure server runtime environment.

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IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor

Get an analysis of on-premises applications complete with modernization recommendations.

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IBM Mono2Micro

Use AI-powered capabilities to refactor applications into microservices without rewriting them.

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IBM Cloud Foundry Migration Runtime

Transform Cloud Foundry applications to native Kubernetes.

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Explore the technology

Bridge the app development gap

Modernize development with one of the most flexible, security-rich and reliable platforms available. (01:55)

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Listen to this weekly series of talks by product experts. Learn about architecture, best practices and more.

Reference architecture

See a step-by-step example of how you could modernize your applications.

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‏Footnotes

*One core of IBM WebSphere ND is equal to four IBM WebSphere Application Server cores or eight IBM WebSphere Liberty cores. By reallocating investments, WebSphere ND customers who move to WebSphere Liberty have 8x more capacity, WebSphere ND customers who move to WebSphere Application Server have 4x more capacity and WebSphere Application Server customers who move to WebSphere Liberty have 4x more capacity.