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IT environments today are unpredictable as ever. Every day there is a new threat to worry about that could harm your business and sensitive data. Nothing halts innovation and threatens revenue faster than a network outage—not to mention the potential loss of customer trust and loyalty that inevitably follows.

The question is, how do you get out ahead of a threat and monitor the health of your business-critical environment before a dreaded outage hits?

You need an application server that is always looking out for you and your business. And you can find that with IBM WebSphere Application Server.

IBM WebSphere Application Server has intelligent management capabilities that can monitor the status and health of your application server. It can sense and respond to a problem and reroute work around it before you have an outage. All of this happens while reducing the amount of hardware, software and administration required.

How is WebSphere Application Server able to do all of this? Let me break down each feature previewed in the infographic below (click for full-sized version):

Application edition manager

The application edition manager feature of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment enables an interruption-free application rollout. This prevents loss of service when you install an application update in your environment. The application edition manager is also fully integrated with the on-demand router, dynamic workload rebalancing and the placement manager to ensure predictable application behavior when updating to a new version of an application. No more downtime when taking on an update or upgrade.

Server health management

The Server health management feature continuously monitors the status of your application server workload. It can sense and respond to a problem and reroute work around it before an outage. With this feature, you can take a policy-driven approach to monitoring your application server environment and take action when certain criteria are met or discovered. You can set a policy to monitor the extra workload when an issue arises. This keeps the business going—and keeps revenue coming in—even if there is an issue with an application.

Service level agreement (SLA)-based dynamic clustering

With SLA-based dynamic clustering, you can provision a new instance of an application server based on workload demand. The size of the cluster grows or shrinks automatically depending on the workload and priority of the application. With this feature, there is no need to worry about a sudden workload spike  to a business or mission critical application due to an increase in demand. WebSphere automatically provides more resources for a critical application while limiting resources for less critical applications to optimize workload and keep customers happy.

Intelligent routing and SLA enforcement

Intelligent routing and SLA enforcement ensures that a business-critical application gets first priority due to a rule defined by the administrator. This feature allows you to give top priority to this workload to ensure sufficient resources are present to service your request in case you encounter any issues.

The intelligent management capabilities of WebSphere Application Server can keep your business going even if issues occur. An outage is one of the fastest ways to encourage your customers spend to their money elsewhere. Avoid losing revenue and customer loyalty, and let WebSphere think smarter for you.

Click here to learn more about WebSphere Application Server both on-premises and in the cloud. You can learn how to take advantage of intelligent management to get out ahead of the next outage.

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