WebSphere development team is winding up work on Liberty version 16.0.0.4. As usual we will be doing a webcast to explain all the great new stuff, and let you get your hands on a product download and a set of… Read More ›
Application Server
WebSphere Application Server migration workshops
IBM is hosting a series of free migration workshops in multiple cities across the world. Workshops are run by the competitive migration team and these are the best experts in the world to teach you about competitive migrations, as well… Read More ›
Liberty virtual Proof of Technology
WebSphere Liberty is the next generation, cloud ready, microservices enabled, lightweight, <insert your favorite buzzword here> runtime. No, seriously, it really is a cool product. You have got to try it out to be a believer. You can download it… Read More ›
WebSphere vs. JBoss cost analysis example using new VPC pricing
Earlier this week I met with an IBM customer to help them with the cost analysis for the new project that required an application server runtime for the 3rd party COTS application. This application is certified by the vendor to… Read More ›
WebSphere Liberty autoscale clustering with Docker
I often meet customers who have hundreds of large applications running on WebSphere. If you move those large applications into microservices you may easily end up with several hundreds or even thousands of microservices. Quite often these environments are provisioned… Read More ›
Comparison of cloud and on-premise license types for WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss and tc Server
Modern applications require flexibility to accommodate unpredictable and often spiky workloads. This means that the license for the software that powers your application must be able to fit requirements of your deployment, not the other way around when you have… Read More ›
WebSphere v9 announcement
Today IBM has announced that a new version of WebSphere Application Server v9 will ship on June 24, 2016. There are many new features available in this release, including Java EE 7 certification for WAS traditional (Liberty Profile was certified… Read More ›
‘Lift and Shift’ your WebSphere applications to the Cloud
New webinar by Don Vines (member of the Migration Team with IBM Cloud Services) is now available for replay: “WebSphere… on the Cloud? Learn how to ‘Lift and Shift’ your WebSphere Applications to the Cloud” to see for yourself just… Read More ›
Migrating from Pivotal tc Server on-prem to IBM Liberty in the cloud
I have written about migrations and the increasing use of the cloud to optimize workloads, but this article combines these topics as experienced by a major USA based airline company. The IBM migration team was called in to evaluate what… Read More ›
The state of WebSphere Application Server business
Application developers today have more choices than ever before. Choices of programming languages, UI and backend frameworks, libraries, IDEs, operating systems, databases, clouds. It appears that the most difficult thing in application development today is to make a decision which… Read More ›
Moving Java Applications to the Cloud – Free Workshop
I’ve written previously about the benefits of moving Java workloads to the cloud and a New York City workshop that the IBM Hybrid Cloud Migration Team was delivering to help clients make this move. The workshop was incredibly well received… Read More ›
Cloud TCO calculator for WebSphere App Server
Many IBM customers are using cloud in one way or the other, however not many have done a detailed analysis of the true cost of the implementation. Even fewer have done a comparison of the on-prem cost vs. the cost… Read More ›
Real time to value with migration planning
I have blogged about technology migrations and our migration services a couple of times and I come back to this topic again because every enterprise needs to address the issue of migrating at some point or another. In today’s ultra… Read More ›
Virtual Proof of Technology: new features of WebSphere Liberty
In this online POT we will show how Liberty provides a path to Hybrid Cloud for Java applications. We will show why Liberty is an excellent runtime for microservices applications, and then drill down into the new enhancements in Liberty…. Read More ›
Migrating from OSS App Servers to Liberty – TEI study by Forrester Consulting
One of the benefits of Open Standards is the ability to avoid vendor lock in. Once you build an app and your original choice of the platform does not longer fit your requirements, you are able to move to another… Read More ›
WebSphere vs. WebLogic competitive positioning white paper
This paper describes technical and cost advantages of IBM WebSphere Application Server over Oracle WebLogic Server. Findings presented here are the result of extensive research conducted by IBM based on publicly available information, including product documentation, user forums, industry conferences,… Read More ›
Building WebRTC services with WebSphere Liberty, Tomcat and WildFly
Advances in web technologies are having a dramatic effect on the capabilities that developers can now deliver to end-users. New features in HTML5 (e.g., data storage, canvas, video and audio) are giving developers a much richer set of tools to… Read More ›
WebSphere Liberty makes it easier to manage microservices
Key requirements of microservices are that they should be easy to manage, are highly available and can scale to handle workload variability. The fulfillment of this requirement largely depends on the runtime environment where these microservices are deployed. The runtime… Read More ›
WebSphere Liberty makes it easier to build OpenID Connect security services
OpenID Connect 1.0 is a simple identity protocol on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. It allows applications to verify the identity of the end-user based on the authentication performed by an Authorization Server, as well as to obtain basic… Read More ›
Building RESTful services with WebSphere Liberty, Tomcat and WildFly
REST APIs have become a popular and important way to interact with computing services in an API economy with the growing popularity of microservices architectures. In this blog I will discuss how simple it is to create RESTful services with… Read More ›
