Webinar: What's new with WebSphere
Introducing IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition, a new offering to help you increase ROI and modernize your WebSphere workloads to Liberty and the Cloud
Overview
What is IBM WebSphere Liberty?
IBM® WebSphere® Liberty, available as part of IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition, is a modern Java EE, Jakarta EE, MicroProfile runtime, ideal for building new cloud-native applications and modernizing existing applications. Liberty is highly efficient and optimized for modern cloud technologies and practices, making it an ideal choice for container and Kubernetes-based deployments.
WebSphere Liberty is built on Open Liberty (link resides outside IBM). The combination of Open Liberty with traditional WebSphere compatibility features makes WebSphere Liberty an ideal target for modernizing existing applications.
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Use cases
Modernize and simplify
Modernize and simplify
Reduce capital and operational costs and simplify management. Modernize to Liberty, Microservices, Containers and Cloud with the no-cost Transformation Advisor and Mono2Micro tools available with IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition.
Build new cloud-native apps
Build new cloud-native apps
Use the latest Java EE, Jakarta EE, and MicroProfile APIs to build cloud-native apps on premises or in the cloud. Adopt open source Open Liberty, supported by IBM with your WebSphere Liberty license.
Create a multicloud environment
Create a multicloud environment
Your WebSphere Liberty license is portable between cloud service providers. Deploy wherever your business dictates, easily move apps across cloud services, regardless of IT architectural environment.
Benefits
Simplify administration
First-class source-to-image, Kubernetes Operator, and Buildpack support help simplify Kubernetes deployments and day-2 operations. Add IBM WebSphere Automation for AI-automated management of your security posture.
Increase developer productivity
Integration with popular IDEs and a rapid inner-loop code, compile, test cycle, including in containers, increase developer productivity and production quality.
Improve infrastructure use
Liberty’s high throughput, self-tuning, and smaller footprint help reduce infrastructure costs by improving server density.
Features
Container and Kubernetes optimized
Liberty is optimized for containerized deployments, continually auto-tuning its performance to the environment.
Lightweight, flexible and efficient
Liberty’s smaller disk and memory footprint and higher throughput help reduce infrastructure and license costs.
Continuous delivery optimized
A continuous delivery release cycle and zero migration architecture help eliminate technical debt and costly patching and migration cycles.
Java EE, Jakarta EE and MicroProfile compatible
IBM is committed to open standards. Avoid vendor lock-in using the latest Java EE, Jakarta EE and MicroProfile technologies.
Spring Boot support
WebSphere Liberty directly supports Spring Boot apps, with superior performance that can result in significant cost savings.
Development & DevOps support
Rapid container-based development in any IDE, and Maven, Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, IBM UrbanCode® Deploy support make Liberty deal for development and DevOps.
Customer success stories
FlowFactor
FlowFactor helped a transport provider modernize apps and cut deployment times > 99% with WebSphere Liberty.
Hera
WebSphere Liberty helped Hera convert a monolithic application to a flexible microservice architecture.
GBM
WebSphere Liberty helped GBM provide an environment for customers to modernize their applications to flexible microservice architectures.