The average enterprise has 464 custom applications, for everything from departmental use to enterprise-wide processes — and a large chunk of these are hosted in-house. In a recent report by Flexera, 48% of enterprise respondents have workloads in the public cloud, and 9% are planning to add workloads in the next year. That leaves 43% that are chugging along on their own dusty hardware and possibly holding their company back.
Custom apps, frequently built on application servers, such as Oracle WebLogic powered by Intel processors, Apache Tomcat®, JBoss®, and IBM WebSphere® are at the core of business today. These custom apps may be unique to your environment and bristling with integrations to other core business apps and databases.