Overview
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition is designed for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud deployments.
WebSphere Hybrid Edition includes the following WebSphere Application Server editions:
- WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
- WebSphere Application Server
- WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core
WebSphere Hybrid Edition is the solution of choice for existing on-premises WebSphere Application Server deployments, which are the WebSphere deployments that have powered a good portion of the world's economy for the last 20 years. With WebSphere Hybrid Edition, existing applications can remain in place. WebSphere Hybrid Edition gives you the flexibility to move between WebSphere editions without additional entitlements.
When it is time to transition WebSphere Application Server applications to the cloud, WebSphere Hybrid Edition is also the solution of choice. WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment include the WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty options. With its extremely small footprint, industry-leading performance, and full Java™ EE/Jakarta EE and MicroProfile certification, Liberty is an industry standard for deployments in the cloud, whether modernizing existing applications or creating new cloud-based applications.
- IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor: Helps businesses modernize and migrate their applications from on-premises environments to the cloud or to containers. IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor can identify applications that are good candidates for migration and provide advice and recommendations regarding how to migrate that application.
- IBM Mono2Micro: An AI-driven feature based on IBM Research technology that accelerates and can take the risk out of refactoring existing applications into modern microservices that are ready for cloud deployments.
- WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit: A set of Eclipse-based tools for WebSphere migration scenarios including cloud migration, WebSphere version to version migration including WebSphere Liberty, and migration from third-party application servers.
- Also supporting WebSphere Hybrid Edition deployments is the IBM Global Services team, with skills and best practices to help take the risk out of application modernization projects regardless of whether the project spans one application or an entire enterprise.
As WebSphere applications migrate to the cloud, it becomes critical to be able to manage the resultant hybrid environment. IBM is focused on hybrid implementations as the vehicle for clients to maximize their competitiveness and business results related to cloud deployments. WebSphere has been a leader in hybrid deployments, with support for all the major public clouds, Kubernetes deployments, and now optimizations for Red Hat OpenShift that establish Liberty as a solution for Java Enterprise Edition and Jakarta Enterprise Edition (Java EE/Jakarta EE) and MicroProfile deployments to Red Hat OpenShift in private or public clouds. In addition to WebSphere management, WebSphere Hybrid Edition delivers common services enablement to ensure integration and management capability across the IBM software portfolio, most notably with IBM Cloud Pak® solutions.
WebSphere Hybrid Edition is a flexible solution for WebSphere Application Server deployments that can enable organizations to meet current and future requirements. It delivers a broad range of technical portfolio options, the capability to mix and match across options over time without additional purchases, a cloud-friendly Virtual Processor Core (VPC)-based metric, and the latest entitlement options from IBM, including perpetual and subscription options.