Middleware
Migrate and modernize application infrastructure
Overview
A foundation for the future
Enterprises using proprietary middleware and infrastructure often struggle with expensive platforms, applications, and vendors. Legacy technology makes it difficult to integrate with newer apps and systems, and your response to customer demand is slowed down as a result. Avoid these problems with modern application infrastructure and middleware.
Move from where you are to where you want to be
Application migration and modernization
A leap forward for your IT and your business
Business and IT challenges
Most organizations are struggling to keep their business running while also trying to innovate. IT departments are expected to do more, to do it faster, and to do it for less money. But it's difficult to lead your business into the future when all of your attention is focused on sustaining it.
Legacy application infrastructures are holding you back
Handling complexity is at the core of most IT problems. Redundant applications, duplicate data, and a lack of standardization frequently stem from efforts to manage complex infrastructure. When computing becomes too complex, it becomes difficult and costly to manage. Unmanaged complexity can limit your ability to do more and prevent you from moving faster.
Red Hat's migration and modernization factory
Our unique approach and experience helps you determine upfront the overall business impact and return on investment of your migration and modernization.
Red Hat has developed a "factory" approach that is standardized but flexible, repeatable, highly scalable and designed to minimize time, effort, and risk, at the lowest possible cost, with predictable business benefits.
Why migrate and modernize?
Trade high costs and vendor lock-in for freedom, productivity, innovation and reliability
An application platform migration and modernization delivers much more than cost savings; it sets the stage for more agile computing, allowing IT organizations to respond to business demands faster.
Lower cost
Red Hat's subscription model comes often at a fraction of the cost of the competition.
Avoid vendor lock-in
Our subscription model is virtualization and cloud friendly.
Re-balance maintenance and innovation
Spend less time, effort and budget to maintain your legacy infrastructure. With Red Hat, you can focus on innovation.
Become more productive with lightweight tech
Speed up application development and delivery with technologies and automation.
Remove technical debt & risk
Standardize, simplify and allow faster integration of existing applications in new projects.
Adopt agile methodologies, DevOps, or cloud
Red Hat Middleware is built with cloud, containers and DevOps in mind so you are ready to move your workloads to a private, public or hybrid cloud when YOU need it.
Red Hat customers
Red Hat Consulting offers more than just technical expertise. We're strategic advisers who take a big-picture view of your organization, analyze your challenges, and help you overcome them with comprehensive, cost-effective solutions.
Migration and modernization pathways
Core migration
The core migration takes you from proprietary or outdated middleware platforms to state-of-the-art lightweight, modular and cloud-ready middleware, and application infrastructure that makes your teams more productive and ready for the future. Typical core migration paths include:
Application server and data cache migration
From: IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, Glassfish, Apache Tomcat, JBoss AS Community, Oracle Coherence
To: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Web Server, Red Hat Data Grid
ESB & integration platforms migration
From: TIBCO, WebMethods, Sonic ESB, JCAPS, IBM Message Broker, Oracle ESB
To: Red Hat Fuse, Red Hat AMQ
BPM and decision management migration
From: IBM WODM / ILOG, IBM BPM, TIBCO ActiveMatrix, Pega, Bonita, Appian, Oracle BPM Suite, Oracle Business Rules
To: Red Hat Process Automation Manager, Red Hat Decision Manager
Application infrastructure migration
From: Mainframe to Linux/Java, Unix/Solaris/Windows to Linux, virtualization, cloud migration, storage
To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage
Migration and modernization pathways
Modernization aspects
Beyond changing platforms, Red Hat Middleware and other Red Hat technologies provide great opportunities to modernize your application development and delivery:
Modularization, APIs, microservices
Breaking down monolithic applications into modules makes it easier and faster to update, build and deploy, manage API access for new projects, or turn functionality into microservices.
Application lifecycle management, continuous integration and delivery
Red Hat Middleware, OpenShift, Ansible, and other Red Hat technologies provide the foundation for continuous lifecycle management—automating application lifecycle management from development to test to production.
PaaS, private cloud, hybrid cloud, containers
A migration to Red Hat Middleware is an opportunity to move from a legacy Infrastructure to a state-of-the-art application infrastructure.
DevOps
While you may not be using DevOps principles today a migration to Red Hat technologies provides the foundation for adopting DevOps culture and collaboration—when your organization is ready.
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