IBM WebSphere Liberty announces InstantOn for cloud-native Java
Overview
What is IBM WebSphere Liberty?
IBM WebSphere Liberty is a next-generation application runtime that accelerates the delivery of cloud-native applications, allowing your team to rapidly deliver differentiating innovation. Whether you're running microservices in a serverless environment or a traditional always on application, Liberty requires less infrastructure, saving costs, and provides the flexibility your organization needs to deploy on any cloud in a trusted, secure and open environment. Liberty empowers your development and platform engineering teams to continuously deliver code that meets and exceeds your customers' expectations. Adopt Liberty today and experience up to a 99% reduction in time to deploy code.
Impact
Explore how Liberty innovation can benefit your organization
Accelerate app start-up
10X
Faster application start-up time using Liberty InstantOn versus without InstantOn
Reduce code deployment time
70%
Decreased time to code deployment for Blue Cross Blue Shield
Reduce app modernization and migration efforts
>99%
Reduced full deployment cycle for FlowFactor
Use cases
Cloud agility

Cloud agility
Avoid vendor lock-in by implementing technology that embraces cloud agility. Liberty is built specifically for agile, vendor neutral, cloud-native applications.
Operational efficiency without compromise

Operational efficiency without compromise
Optimize cloud performance by taking full advantage of your Java stack. Liberty InstantOn will enable your apps to start and respond in less than a few hundred milliseconds.
Customer success stories
BlueCross BlueShield
BlueCross optimizes computing resources and gives developers more flexibility and efficiency as a result of migrating to a modern WebSphere Liberty-based infrastructure.
FlowFactor
FlowFactor helped a transport provider modernize apps and cut deployment times more than 99% with WebSphere Liberty.
Hera
WebSphere Liberty helped Hera convert a monolithic application to a flexible microservice architecture.
Testimonials
IBM WebSphere Liberty is dynamic, lightweight, platform-agnostic, and container-ready. It checks all of the modernization journey boxes. It boasts the backbone/foundation of tWAS to instill confidence and stability in the technicians supporting it and the customers consuming it.
Technology owner
US enterprise with more than 1,000 employees
G2 review
Performance overall is much better. For one application, start-up time was around 10 minutes on traditional WebSphere and takes around 90 seconds on Liberty.
NPS review
Large bank in Germany
With WebSphere Liberty, it gives us the ability the refine some of our current footprint and enable to save money on licensing. We are working on migrating our traditional environment to a Liberty environment.
Administrator in Government Administration
Enterprise with more than 1,000 employees