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- Zend Announces General Availability of Zend Server 5.0: New Version Delivers Increased Performance, Faster Problem Resolution for Critical PHP Web Applications
Zend Server 5.0 Reduces Problem Resolution Time by up to 50 Percent; Adds Job Queue for Improved End-user Experience; Includes Support for PHP 5.3
Cupertino, CA February 24, 2010 — Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced the general availability of Zend Server 5.0, a major new version of the company’s PHP Web application server. New Code Tracing technology in Zend Server 5.0 enables PHP developers and administrators to slash problem resolution time by up to 50%. For the first time, users have visibility into the behavior of their code in production environments, with the ability to pinpoint the root cause of application issues quickly and eliminate the time-consuming and sometimes near impossible task of recreating problems in order to resolve them.
“Zend Server 5.0 is a huge step forward for businesses running business-critical PHP Web applications,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder at Zend. “With this new version we are delivering application monitoring and diagnostics as part of the base application server at no additional cost. The new Code Tracing technology revolutionizes how businesses can reduce time spent on problem resolution. This and other enhancements will help businesses deliver reliable high-performance applications and maximize end-user satisfaction while reducing development and management time and costs.”
ZEND SERVER 5.0 – ENTERPRISE-GRADE PHP WEB APPLICATION SERVER
Zend Server 5.0 optimizes application performance through multiple PHP caching and acceleration technologies, helps detect and diagnose issues through application monitoring, and provides a complete, tested PHP application stack for Windows and Linux. The product is backed by expert technical support, online updates, hot fixes and security patches. Zend Server is fully integrated with the Zend Studio PHP IDE, and Zend Framework, the most popular open source PHP framework, creating the fastest and easiest solution for developing and deploying reliable and secure Web applications. Also available is a free, community edition of Zend Server.INNOVATIVE CODE TRACING TECHNOLOGY
Zend Server 5.0 Code Tracing eliminates the need to recreate problems by automatically capturing in real-time the full execution history of an application in a production environment. Now developers can quickly find the root cause of a problem rather than following a lengthy, error-prone process to reproduce it. Code Tracing can be activated manually or automatically when performance degrades or errors are detected through Zend Server application monitoring.A new Zend Server view, based on Adobe Flex, provides visibility into recorded data, showing a tree of function calls, arguments, errors and duration, as well as statistical information that helps in identifying performance bottlenecks in production.
With Zend Server 5.0, PHP developers can cut troubleshooting time by up to 50% and ensure greater application reliability while recouping valuable time for programming tasks.
“I have saved up to four hours a day of debugging time using Code Tracing in Zend Server 5.0,” said Drew Ewing, a PHP programmer at CyberMark International. “For 99.9% of the debug processes that I’m concerned with, Zend Server automatically gathers all of the necessary debug information that I used to gather manually. The countless hours I used to spend debugging transparent actions like jQuery updates, are now freed up to tackle more important programming issues.” CyberMark is an Internet marketing firm that specializes in SEO and PPC programs, social media marketing and website development.
INTEGRATED JOB QUEUE
Zend Server 5.0 Job Queue increases application performance and responsiveness by allowing jobs (PHP scripts) to be performed asynchronously or at recurring intervals, offloading tasks from client initiated Web requests to secondary processing. End users experience snappy responses in their Web browsers while long-running jobs like credit card processing, shipping and other activities proceed in the background. In addition, maintenance tasks such as database cleanup and RSS feed pulls can be run at specific times or at recurring intervals. The Job Queue feature is fully integrated into the Zend Server monitoring system and Web console, giving developers and other IT staff one place to monitor the overall execution of their applications, including status of jobs.“Zend Server 5.0 plays a strategic role in helping us ensure a quality online shopping experience for our customers, even during peak traffic times,” said Josh Butts, director of Web development for Offers.com. “Zend Server monitors our application and performs code tracing to tell us when things go wrong and why, so we can quickly address issues as soon as they occur.”
SUPPORT FOR PHP 5.3
Zend Server includes support for both PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3, enabling programmers to take advantage of new language features such as namespaces and closures.OPERATING SYSTEMS
Zend Server 5.0 supports Linux and Windows; an IBM i version is currently in beta.ZEND WEBINAR, PRODUCT INFORMATION
Zend Server 5.0 Webinar – February 25, 2010 – 9:00 am PST
This free technical webinar will illustrate use of Zend Server 5.0 to troubleshoot production issues using the new code tracing feature, improve performance with job queue, and other capabilities. Register to attend.
For a complete list of new features and functionality in Zend Server 5.0, please go to the Zend Web site at http://www.zend.com/products/server.About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive solution for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend Framework, Zend.com, Zend Server, and associated logos and icons, are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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- Zend Technologies Polls Fast-Growing Zend Framework PHP Developer Community
Zend Survey Reveals Major Focus on Developing Business-Critical Web Applications Using Zend Framework, Growing Use of Mac OS X for Development, and Increased Demand for Training and Certification.
CUPERTINO, CA (PRWEB) February 16, 2010 — Zend Technologies, Inc., today announced results from ‘State of PHP and Zend Framework Development’, a global online survey of the Zend Framework PHP developer community conducted in December 2009. Survey responses reflected a high level of satisfaction with Zend Framework across a diverse group ranging from independent consultants to organizations with 5,000+ employees.
“The Zend Framework Open-Source Project debuted only four years ago and already more than 70% of the developers are using it for business-critical applications,” said Zeev Suraski, Chief Technology Officer at Zend Technologies. Survey results showed that Zend Framework is used by 58% of respondents for enterprise-level business critical-applications, and by 16% for department-level business-critical applications.
In terms of a production environment, 85% of PHP developers surveyed named Linux as their primary operating system while 11% named Windows and 2% named Mac OS X. When asked to name their primary operating system for development, 42% named Windows versus 38.5% who chose Linux and 19.1% who chose Mac OS X. For these same development environments, approximately 27% of respondents said they now use Zend Server and Zend Server Community Edition.
“We are seeing rapid and broad-based adoption of the Zend Server technologies that we released last year,” said Suraski. “At the same time, we are focused on integration of the framework, development tools and run-time environment to provide the developer community with an end-to-end solution. We believe this will take the already highly productive nature of PHP to the next level.”
In other survey results, close to 70% of respondents said they use Zend Studio or Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) for development, and 18% use Vim. Close to 50% of respondents reported using PHPUnit to perform unit testing.
Zend noted that 46% of respondents said they plan to obtain Zend Framework Certification, joining close to 5% who are already certified. Developer Certification is increasingly viewed as a job market advantage, a view that is reflected in growing demand for Zend training materials including webinars and online training. Zend has responded with a new Zend Framework training and certification bundle that enables novice and advanced PHP developers to become proficient in Zend Framework and achieve certification.
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
For more information, visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend Framework, Zend.com, Zend Server, and Zend Studio, and associated logos and icons, are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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- Zend Framework Adds Support for Microsoft Windows Azure and Deutsche Telekom Developer Garden
PHP Developers Can Use Cloud Storage Services and Telecommunications Interfaces Within the Zend Framework Open Source ProjectCUPERTINO, California, January 28, 2010 – Zend Technologies Inc., the PHP Company, announces the availability of Zend Framework 1.10, the new release of its open source PHP web application framework. Zend Framework 1.10 includes support for Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and the Deutsche Telekom Developer Garden platform. The new release also provides documentation and tutorial enhancements.
Persistent, Redundant Storage in the Cloud
Using the new Zend_Service_WindowsAzure component, contributed by Microsoft to the Zend Framework open source project, developers can easily call Windows Azure APIs from their PHP applications to accelerate web application development and scale up on demand. Zend_Service_WindowsAzure provides interfaces for all Windows Azure storage services, including Blob Storage, Table Storage and Queue Service. These services provide the advantages of persistent, redundant storage in the cloud.
“PHP developers find the Windows Azure platform compelling,” said Jean Paoli, General Manager Interoperability at Microsoft. “Microsoft’s decision to contribute PHP-based Windows Azure components to Zend Framework helps demonstrate Microsoft’s commitment to openness and interoperability by providing greater choice and opportunity for Microsoft customers and partners.”
“The ubiquity, simplicity and flexibility of PHP make it ideal for building cloud applications. Native Windows Azure support in Zend Framework 1.10 brings the power of Windows Azure to a substantial community of Zend Framework users,” said Zeev Suraski, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Zend. “Along with new features for established developers, we are shortening the learning curve for beginners, with enhanced documentation, new tutorials and improved documentation structure.”Web-based Communications Services
Also included in Zend Framework 1.10 is a new component for accessing Deutsche Telekom’s Developer Garden, an open collaboration platform between developers and Deutsche Telekom. Using Zend_Service_DeveloperGarden, developers can leverage a host of telecommunications services, such as SMS, voice calls and conference calls, from their PHP applications.
Download Zend Framework 1.10 from http://framework.zend.com/download/latest.
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+1 408-253-8800About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.# # #
Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend Framework, Zend.com, Zend Server, and Zend Studio, and associated logos and icons, are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. - Zend Issues Significant Update to Zend Studio 7 Enterprise PHP IDE
Zend Studio 7.1 Now Supports Task-Focused Programming, Remote Server Synchronization, and PHP Archives
CUPERTINO, Calif., December 4, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, today announced the immediate availability of Zend Studio 7.1, which adds significant new capabilities to the company’s overall PHP solution. Designed to further improve developer productivity, Zend Studio 7.1 features new support for task-focused development, easy remote server synchronization, and support for PHP Archives (PHAR), in addition to previously announced support for PHP version 5.3 and deeper integration of the solution with Zend Framework and Zend Server.
Zend Studio is the only integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP that provides a complete, professional-grade workbench built on the Zend-led open source Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project, currently the most downloaded Eclipse project. Zend Studio customers benefit from the huge ecosystem of plug-in solutions available in the Eclipse community. The combined set of capabilities provides a solution that maximizes productivity for developers while providing the integration to Zend Framework and Zend Server that enterprises require.
“PHP is now widespread in many enterprises and this update to Zend Studio helps streamline team development processes by providing additional benefits for developers building dynamic, professional-grade PHP applications,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies. “Zend Studio is the only professional IDE for PHP that leverages the Eclipse ecosystem and together with Zend Framework and Zend Server provides a solution that addresses the entire lifecycle—development to production—for PHP-based Web applications.”
Zend Studio 7.1 adds features and enhancements to ease development tasks and increase developer productivity. New features in Zend Studio 7.1:
• Task-focused programming - By providing integration with the highly successful Eclipse Mylyn project, Zend Studio 7.1 lets developers be more productive by reducing information overload when switching between development tasks. Developers manage their work more effectively by identifying project elements – such as files, classes, and functions – related to a specific development task and displaying just those elements needed for the task at hand.
• Remote server support - By providing a simplified workflow that supports easy synchronization of project files to a remote server, developers can write code, debug, and test in environments that closely match the production environment eliminating many common cross platform errors early in the lifecycle.
• PHAR (“PHP Archive”) support - By providing support for the emerging PHAR technology, developers can group project files into a single file that simplifies distribution and installation of complete PHP applications.
• Plus numerous fixes and other software updates to enhance the stability and speed of Zend Studio.
In addition, Zend Studio 7.0, released mid-summer, has key features that include:
Support for PHP 5.3: Zend Studio 7.0 is a complete IDE for the new PHP version 5.3. Zend Studio’s support for 5.3 features makes for easier maintenance and more concise code with code assist, new syntax highlighting, and new language features in PHP 5.3, such as namespaces and closures, which allow programmers to better organize their code and use more dynamic coding patterns.
Point-and-click Zend Framework coding: Better integration with Zend Framework, the leading PHP development framework, delivers more productive engineering with rapid application development (RAD) programming, enabling point-and-click creation of standards-based, customizable, professional-grade Zend Framework applications.Enhanced integration with Zend Server: Zend Studio 7.0’s support for Zend Server—Zend’s Web application server for deploying, managing, and monitoring PHP Web applications—delivers significantly faster and more reliable software. Zend Server maximizes PHP application reliability, security, and performance in the enterprise with ongoing application monitoring, security fixes, product updates, and event notifications.
For more information about the new features and functionality in Zend Studio 7, please visit http://www.zend.com/products/studio
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
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pr@zend.com - Zend and Varien Partner to Deliver an All-In-One PHP and eCommerce Solution
Varien’s Popular Open Source Magento eCommerce Software to Ship with Zend Server Community Edition PHP StackBARGENTO, PARIS – November 9, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, and Varien, developer of Magento, the world’s fastest growing eCommerce platform, today announced that they have partnered to make it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to quickly evaluate, develop, and deploy flexible, state-of-the-art ecommerce Web applications. As a result of the new partnership, the Community Edition of Varien’s popular Magento™ eCommerce software will ship with the Community Edition of Zend Server, Zend’s high performance PHP Web application server.
The companies also announced that the Varien and Zend teams and open-source communities are working together on two major initiatives. Varien will be contributing a number of significant native ecommerce features to the open source, industry-standard PHP framework, Zend Framework— an integrated part of Zend Server. Additionally, both Zend and Varien will be optimizing Magento, Zend Server, and Zend Framework to deliver peak performance for ecommerce applications.
“Magento is a robust ecommerce solution with open source reliability and flexibility – putting top-quality ecommerce functionality into the hands of virtually anyone,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies. “With the new all-in-one packaging of Magento and Zend Server, it’s extremely easy for any organization to set up, install and explore Web-based commerce on a Windows or Linux platform, with the confidence that their application will run with performance, efficiency and reliability. This combination removes virtually any barriers to developing high-quality ecommerce Web sites with PHP.”
The open source Magento eCommerce platform, developed with PHP 5 and Zend Framework, has been adopted by thousands of users and is implemented by businesses with Web applications processing many tens of thousands of orders per day using multiple servers and cluster architectures. The no-cost Magento Community Edition provides a basic and powerful solution for small shops looking for a state-of-the-art ecommerce platform. Users may upgrade to the Magento Enterprise Edition for more advanced features and support.
Zend Server Community Edition (CE) is a fast, reliable, no-cost PHP application stack that can be used in development, testing and production. Zend Server CE runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X and is specifically tuned to address the needs of developer desktops and laptops, as well as smaller server deployments everywhere. Zend Server is also available in a commercial, enterprise edition, which is a complete Web application server for running, monitoring and managing business-critical PHP applications that require a high level of reliability, performance, and security.
Using Magento CE with Zend Server CE, small and medium-sized businesses can quickly install, explore and start building state-of-the art shopping and other commerce-based Web sites with features such as catalog and order management, analytics, SEO, merchandizing, customer accounts and shipping, and then deploy them with ease on Zend Server. Users can develop Magento eCommerce applications on desktops running the Windows or Linux operating systems and deploy applications into production on both Windows and Linux. To further expand the ecommerce functionality readily available to PHP developers, Varien is also modularizing Magento and making a number of significant ecommerce feature contributions to Zend Framework, including payment gateways, shipping calculation modules, and others.
“Zend’s PHP solutions have played a major role in the development of Magento, and we are thrilled to contribute key ecommerce features back to Zend Framework to promote the development of PHP-based ecommerce,” said Roy Rubin, CEO at Varien. “Zend continues to demonstrate its unmatched expertise and strong commitment to PHP with products such as Zend Server, and we look forward to continuing to expand our partnership with them. In particular, we’re very excited that Zend Server’s support for PHP on Windows is unmatched anywhere else, as this makes exploring powerful ecommerce easy for businesses everywhere.”
Wonderbox is a vendor of romantic/adventure gift packages and does very high volumes during the holiday season and other gift-giving occasions, such as Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and so on. Wonderbox has an online language-specific presence in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Poland, and is opening soon in Japan, Belgium, Portugal, and elsewhere—so the international capabilities of Magento and Zend Framework are extremely important to their product plans, in addition to the open-source flexibility both are known for.
“Our Wonderbox site has been engineered for over 150,000 transactions a day and we estimate we will serve over 3 million visits during the December holiday season. We recently went from zero to a fully functioning production Web application taking customer orders in less than three months, by running Magento eCommerce on Zend Server,” said Fatih Gezen, chief technology officer at Wonderbox. “That is a compelling ROI and amazing technology story. We have in a very short time mastered the technology and can easily create intuitive online experiences for our customers to use to make purchases from us.”
“Zend Server out of the box gives us a secure, high-performing PHP stack with monitoring and other capabilities and the feature set in Magento had just about everything we needed to build our ecommerce site,” commented Chris Mann, deputy information director at Wonderbox. “We’ve additionally built a custom Magento module in Zend Framework. That has been easy to do based on the excellent training and support we’ve received from our consulting partners and from the large open-source community that’s available for both products.”
In addition to consulting partners who specialize in Magento/Zend Server installations, Zend and Varien also plan to cooperate on joint education, training, and other activities to promote ecommerce applications, including promotion of software lifecycle best practices and enterprise ecommerce training.
Availability
The complete all-in-one Magento and Zend Server solution stack is available today from both companies for download, meaning that together the huge Magento and Zend communities will have available in one package the leading PHP ecommerce solution and the best performing PHP stack. To learn more and to download these packages, please visit: http://www.magentocommerce.com/product/magento-zend or http://www.zend.com/solutions/packaged-php-applications/zend-server-magentoAs announced today, the Magento eCommerce feature components will be made available for download from the Zend Framework project and will also ship as a part of the base Zend Framework that comes with every Magento eCommerce download. These will be made available as soon as the components are added to the Zend Framework project by the two teams.
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.About Magento
Magento is a feature-rich, professional Open Source eCommerce platform solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the presentation, content, and functionality of their online channel. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing tools, a catalog-management engine and is SEO optimized to give merchants the power to create sites that provide an unrivaled and rich online shopping experience for their customers, tailored to their unique business needs. Designed to be completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network, Magento is the ultimate eCommerce solution. For more information about Magento, visit http://www.MagentoCommerce.com.Press Contacts:
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- Zend and Oracle Join Forces to Deliver Enterprise-Class Linux and PHP Solution
Zend Server Now Available Through Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network
CUPERTINO, Calif. – November 4, 2009 – Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced that it is working with Oracle to deliver an integrated and optimized enterprise-class Linux and PHP solution for deploying and managing business-critical Web applications. To extend access to Zend Server — Zend’s complete, enterprise-ready Web application server – it is now available through the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN). Building on a history of integration between Zend solutions and the Oracle Database, Zend Server also includes out-of-the-box enterprise-grade connectivity to Oracle® Database.
“Oracle and Zend have a long-standing commitment to the PHP community, with a history of collaboration that has ensured integration between Oracle and Zend’s PHP-based solutions,” said Andi Gutmans, Zend CEO. “Together, we are now delivering an enterprise-grade PHP stack from top to bottom supporting the development, deployment, and management of business-critical PHP applications on Oracle. This full stack will also ease deployment in virtual environments using Oracle® VM.”Users of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) now have easier, one-stop access to Zend Server via ULN, helping to speed installation for their PHP-based Web applications. The Unbreakable Linux Network is a comprehensive resource for Oracle Unbreakable Linux support subscribers, offering access to software patches, updates, and fixes. ULN is an easy to access website for subscribers available at http://linux.oracle.com
Leveraging the knowledge and experience of Zend and Oracle, the integrated Oracle Enterprise Linux and Zend Server solution delivers a stable, high performance, easy-to-install production environment for business-critical PHP Web applications.
“Oracle has been a long time supporter of PHP and Zend,” said Wim Coekaerts, vice president of Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle. “Oracle Enterprise Linux customers will have more convenient access to Zend Server through the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network, enabling them to leverage the ease-of-use and low-cost of PHP in their production environments.”
Zend Server: A Production Environment for Business-Critical PHP Web Applications
Zend Server is a complete, enterprise-ready Web application server designed for running and managing business-critical PHP applications in production. With Zend Server, customers can experience dramatic improvements in performance, security, and reliability of their Web applications, backed by Zend’s enterprise-class support and service.
A core component of Zend’s integrated suite of professional PHP solutions, Zend Server includes the most up-to-date version of PHP, advanced monitoring and problem diagnostics to ensure application reliability, an enhanced code accelerator to maximize performance, and 24/7 access to Zend’s technical support for online updates, hot fixes and security patches. Zend Server also integrates with Zend Studio, Zend’s PHP IDE, and Zend Framework, the popular open source PHP framework, to make it faster and easier to develop and deploy rich, reliable, and secure Web applications. Zend Server, Zend Studio, and Zend Framework also integrate closely with Oracle Database 11g.
Zend Technologies recently announced a new public beta version of Zend Server — Zend Server 5.0 – which includes significant new features, including code tracing, job queues, and support for PHP 5.3. Please see press release at: http://www.zend.com/en/company/news/Press/zend-server-slashes-problem-resolution-time-boosts-performance-of-php-web-apps.
Availability
Oracle customers can access Zend Server from Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) through standard, native RPM package delivery ( http://linux.oracle.com ). A 30-day free trial license for the fully-featured Zend Server is available online instantly upon request at Zend’s Web site: http://www.zend.com/products/server/license.Full support for applications and production environments running on Oracle Enterprise Linux and Zend Server is available via Oracle (for Oracle Enterprise Linux) and Zend (for Zend Server).
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the Web and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive solution for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
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+1-510-724-2267 - Zend Server 5.0 Slashes Problem Resolution Time, Boosts Performance of PHP Web Apps
New Version of Company’s Enterprise-grade Web Application Server Reduces Root Cause Analysis Time by up to 50 Percent; Adds Job Queues and Support for PHP 5.3ZENDCON 2009, SAN JOSE, CALIF. – October 20, 2009 – Zend Technologies, the PHP company, today released a public beta of Zend Server 5.0, a major new version of the company’s enterprise-ready PHP Web application server. Zend Server 5.0 includes a ground-breaking new feature – Code Tracing – that enables users to slash problem resolution time by up to 50 percent. For the first time, PHP developers and administrators can quickly pinpoint the root cause of a problem in production by viewing a “digital documentary” of the execution of their application – similar to a black box flight recorder in an airplane – and avoid the time-consuming task of recreating the problem.
“Zend Server gives organizations everything they need to deploy and manage business-critical Web applications, including the most up-to-date PHP, advanced application monitoring, and consistently high performance,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder at Zend. “With Zend Server 5.0, we are revolutionizing how PHP developers can manage their production servers, significantly reducing the time spent on root cause analysis and resolution. We are proud to be the first to deliver this enterprise-grade feature to businesses using PHP.”
Zend Server is an essential part of Zend’s professional integrated solutions for developing and managing business-critical Web applications. Zend Server includes a complete, up-to-date PHP stack for PCI compliance, advanced monitoring and diagnostics for application reliability, industry leading code acceleration and page caching to maximize performance. This is coupled with access to Zend’s expert technical support, online updates, hot fixes and security patches. Zend Server is fully integrated with Zend’s Studio PHP IDE, Zend Framework, the most popular open source framework creating the fastest and easiest solution for developing and deploying reliable and secure Web applications.
The Code Tracing feature in Zend Server 5.0 takes root cause analysis to a whole new level, enabling operations, quality assurance, and development staff to significantly boost productivity and enhance application reliability. Similar in concept to an airplane black box flight recorder that captures the data required to analyze flight problems, Zend Server Code Tracing captures the full execution of an application in real-time, so IT staff can quickly find the root cause of a problem without having to reproduce it. Code Tracing can be turned on and off by Zend Server’s Event Monitoring capability so that real-time PHP code execution is captured only during specified events, such as those triggered by performance degradation or other error conditions. The trace is displayed in the Zend Server Web console to enable staff to view the complete execution history of an application and definitively pinpoint a problem’s root cause. Zend Server Code Tracing can cut problem identification and resolution time by up to 50 percent.
In addition to Code Tracing, Zend Server 5.0 includes many other features to maximize the performance and reliability of PHP Web applications, such as Job Queues. Zend Server Job Queues increases application performance and responsiveness by allowing jobs (tasks) to be performed asynchronously or at recurring intervals, offloading long-running tasks from Web servers to back-end servers. End users experience snappy responses in their Web browser while long-running jobs like credit card processing, shipping and other activities proceed in the background. In addition, maintenance tasks such as database cleanup and RSS feed pulls can be run at specific times or at recurring intervals. The Job Queue feature is fully integrated into the Zend Server monitoring system and Web console, giving developers and other IT staff one place to monitor the overall execution of their application.
Zend Server also includes support for PHP 5.3, enabling programmers to more easily maintain, organize, and deploy concise, professional code for their applications with modern language features like namespaces and closures.
With Zend Server 5.0, the product line will also support IBM i, in addition to Linux and Windows.
For a complete list of new features and functionality in Zend Server 5.0, please go to the Zend Web site at http://www.zend.com/products/server/zend-server-5-new
Availability
A public beta version of Zend Server 5.0 is available today and can be downloaded directly from the Zend Web site at http://www.zend.com/products/server/zend-server-5-new. The Zend Server 5.0 production release will be available by the end of the year.About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive solution for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
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+1-510-724-2267 - The RightScale Cloud Management Platform Now Supports Zend Server
PHP Applications on Zend’s Web Servers can be Quickly Deployed on the Cloud with the Leading Cloud Management PlatformZENDCON 2009, SAN JOSE, Calif. – October 20, 2009 – Zend Technologies, the PHP company, and RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that the RightScale Cloud Management Platform now includes support for Zend Server and Zend Server Community Edition (CE), Zend’s PHP Web application server solutions. System administrators can now quickly deploy Zend Server or Zend Server CE applications on a cloud – or across multiple clouds — and easily manage them through RightScale’s easy-to-use and automated platform. RightScale users can benefit from the enterprise-grade production environment delivered by Zend Server or the easy, all-in-one Zend Server CE.
RightScale is exhibiting the RightScale Cloud Management Platform at ZendCon today through Thursday at booth number 206. In addition, Thorsten von Eicken, RightScale CTO and founder, is participating on a ZendCon panel titled, “Developing on the Cloud,” along with representatives from IBM, Microsoft and Zend, today at 1:30pm at the conference’s San Jose Convention Center location.
“An increasing number of PHP Web applications on the cloud are critical to an organization’s core business and cannot experience significant downtime or a lapse in security,” noted von Eicken. “We are pleased that RightScale users now have the option to use Zend Server to run their business-critical Web applications with confidence.”
The RightScale Cloud Management Platform lets any organization tap the enormous power of cloud computing for scalable, cost-effective IT infrastructure on demand, with complete control and portability. RightScale reduces the complexity of cloud deployments, enabling organizations to launch business-critical applications rapidly, without the risk of lock-in.
Zend has developed a RightScript for Zend Server and Zend Server CE, enabling Zend Servers to be integrated into a RightScale cloud deployment as part of a RightScale ServerTemplate, which are pre-built templates for common server configurations. RightScale users can install either the full-featured and supported commercial edition of Zend Server or Zend Server CE, running on CentOS Linux and either PHP 5.2 or 5.3.
Zend Server is a complete, enterprise-ready Web application server designed for running and managing business-critical PHP applications in production. Zend Server includes a pre-integrated, tested PHP application stack, advanced monitoring and problem diagnostics to ensure application reliability, several acceleration and caching capabilities to maximize performance, up to 24/7 access to Zend’s technical support, as well as online updates, hot fixes and security patches. Zend Server CE is a free download that offers ease-of-use and performance in one simple package for PHP-based Web applications.
“We want to make it as easy as possible for Zend Server users to get the benefits of cloud computing to maximize the agility and performance of their PHP Web sites,” said Zeev Suraski, Zend CTO. “RightScale is the de facto leader in cloud computing management, providing a proven platform that provides not only a fast cloud on-ramp, but also proven, cloud-ready solutions that can support even complex, multi-cloud deployments.”
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive solution for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.About RightScale
RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. Founded in 2006, the company offers a fully automated cloud management platform that enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business critical applications across multiple clouds with complete control and portability. The RightScale Cloud Management Platform is delivered as “software as a service” (SAAS) and is available in a range of editions, from the free Developer Edition to Enterprise Editions. To date, thousands of deployments and more than 600,000 servers have been launched on the RightScale Platform for leading companies such as Animoto, Playfish, Sling Media and TC3. To learn more about RightScale, please go to http://www.RightScale.com.# # #
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pr@zend.com - Zend Teams with IBM, Microsoft, Rackspace and Other Cloud Leaders on Open Source Initiative to Drive Cloud Application Development
New Simple API for Cloud Application Services Facilitates Development of Cloud Applications That Can Access Services on All Major Cloud PlatformsCUPERTINO, CALIF. – Sept. 22, 2009 – Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today launched the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in the cloud, while enabling them to unlock value-added features available from individual providers. The project aims to facilitate the development of cloud applications that can access services on all major cloud platforms.
Zend, IBM, Microsoft, Nirvanix, Rackspace and GoGrid are co-founding contributors to this community project.The Simple Cloud API project empowers developers to use one interface to interact with a variety of cloud application services, enabling them to more easily access new technologies from cloud vendors. The first deliverables will include interfaces for file storage, document database, and simple queue services from platforms like Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network and Rackspace Cloud Files. As a result, developers can deploy software applications to access services in these environments without making time consuming and expensive changes to their source code.
“Cloud computing offers irresistible value to enterprises of all sizes, but the lack of portability across cloud application services for even the most basic operations has been an impediment to broader adoption of cloud services,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO at Zend Technologies.
“The Simple Cloud API combines the benefits of open source community processes with the active participation of the cloud vendors themselves,” continued Gutmans. “With early participation and support from industry leaders and the Zend Framework community, we anticipate that this important project will continue to grow, serving a wide range of application developers and businesses building modern Web applications for the cloud.”
The Simple Cloud API project is designed to encourage widespread participation and contributions from the open source community, resulting in the availability of Simple Cloud API adapters for virtually all major cloud providers.
Although led by Zend, the largest corporate contributor to the PHP programming language, the Simple Cloud API can be translated to any object-oriented language for the Web. The PHP implementation will be available in the widely adopted open source Zend Framework project as a new component, called “Zend Cloud.” PHP developers can take advantage of this new component to utilize existing client libraries available in Zend Framework in a uniform way.
Zend Cloud adapters will be available for services such as:
- File storage services, including Windows Azure blobs, Rackspace Cloud Files, Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network and Amazon S3
- Document Storage services, including Windows Azure tables and Amazon SimpleDB
- Simple queue services, including Amazon SQS and Windows Azure queues
Zend Cloud will also provide adapters for local services to make offline coding and testing against cloud services as easy as connected development.
Other adapters, such as those for Rackspace Cloud Files API, will work with external libraries with no changes to application code. Microsoft is also contributing Simple Cloud API adapters, along with the official PHP client libraries for Windows Azure storage, to future versions of Zend Framework. These adapters will allow applications to take advantage of many Windows Azure features through the Simple Cloud API interface, while Microsoft’s client libraries will put Windows Azure innovations, such as transaction and partial upload support, at the fingertips of cloud application developers.
Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, CTO of IBM Cloud Computing, recognizes this effort as a significant step towards a more open and interoperable cloud. “The Simple Cloud API will enable developers to invoke cloud services in a common way across cloud providers. This can significantly reduce the costs for application development and provide customer choice. To that end, IBM will be contributing adapters for IBM’s cloud service interfaces, as well as adapters to IBM’s data storage products, allowing developers to easily switch between public clouds, private clouds and traditional data center environments.“
“Microsoft is pleased to continue to work with Zend and join efforts with other contributors to this project,” said Doug Hauger, General Manager, Microsoft Windows Azure. “The Simple Cloud API is an example of Microsoft’s continued investment in the openness and interoperability of its platform. We’re excited to see how this project will foster adoption of cloud computing platforms by PHP developers and hope that many of these developers are encouraged to use Windows Azure.”
Lew Moorman, Chief Strategy Officer and President of the Rackspace Cloud, added, “We’re proud to be part of any initiative that delivers more value to developers in the cloud. Our contributions to the Simple Cloud API are part of our ongoing effort to bring the unique value of open source software to the cloud. Many of our customers use PHP as their Web application language of choice, and we believe that these developers should be able to choose which cloud services are the best fit for them through interfaces that they can help define.”
An initial Simple Cloud API proposal and reference implementation is available now for community review and participation at http://www.simplecloud.org. Developers can also evaluate the Simple API for Cloud Application Services by deploying their applications that use it on the Amazon cloud using the freely available Zend Server Community Edition Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for EC2. Zend Technologies also offers a Zend Server AMI that is commercially supported. A technology preview of the PHP client libraries for Windows Azure can be viewed and downloaded from: http://framework.zend.com/Zend_Service_WindowsAzure
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP is used by more than 20 million Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 27,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
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+1-510-724-2267 - Zend Framework 1.9 Features PHP 5.3 Readiness and New Professional Components
Business-focused components such as: RESTful web services, queuing for asynchronous processes, LDAP, RSS/Atom, and DBUnit test support
CUPERTINO, Calif., July 29, 2009—Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, today announced that the widely successful open source project Zend Framework, which has been downloaded many millions of times, is issuing its fifth update since debuting two years ago and will be available Friday. The new version, Zend Framework 1.9, features PHP 5.3 support, plus new and enhanced community-built professional level features for web application development.“Zend Framework continues to broaden its appeal for professional PHP developers who want to benefit from a cohesive set of best practices, design patterns, and a community-driven project,” said Zeev Suraski, chief technology officer and co-founder at Zend. “With Zend Framework, worldwide talent and solutions are available for any business problem at hand, already solved and pre-crafted by someone in the massive Zend Framework open-source community.”
New features in Zend Framework 1.9:
- Complete support for PHP 5.3 as well as 5.2 means developers can use the latest PHP language features in their Zend Framework-based apps
- RESTful web services: now made easier through automated routing/detection
- Message queues: useful for offload processing (credit card transactions, media uploads), cross-platform communication, user messaging features, and more.
- LDAP: Microsoft ActiveDirectory & Novell, plus searching, filtering, and tree features
- RSS & Atom: consume these popular feed formats using a common API and higher performance cached HTTP
- DBUnit support: DBUnit’s test data setup and teardown make unit testing Zend Framework applications much easier
“In addition to building the new Shape.com site using Zend Framework, SonomaCreative is building all new websites we design on a combination of the rock-solid Zend Framework components in combination with our own custom in-house components,” said Mark Gordon, CEO of SonomaCreative, a Northern California based web development firm.
“We have also found that the new Zend Studio 7, with support for creating and generating Zend Framework code, makes our job building web applications for our clients much faster and easier. The combination of Zend Framework and Zend Studio means we are more productive because we spend more of our time actually customizing applications for our clients and less time building the plumbing and standard components that every application needs.”
In other news
Zend Studio 7.0 was released today with new and expanded support for code generation of Zend Framework applications. For more detail, please go here: http://tinyurl.com/zendstudio7announcedAbout Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP is used by more than 20 million Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 27,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
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pr@zend.com - Zend Launches Major New Release of its Zend Studio PHP IDE
Zend Studio 7.0 Supports New PHP 5.3; Boosts Developer Productivity for Business-Critical PHP DevelopmentCUPERTINO, Calif., July 29, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, today announced a major new release of Zend Studio, the company’s leading integrated development environment (IDE) for the dynamic PHP language. Designed to dramatically improve productivity for professional-grade Web application development, Zend Studio 7.0 features support for the newly-released PHP version 5.3 as well as tight integration with Zend Server and Zend Framework.
“PHP is rapidly becoming a mainstay in the enterprise, and Zend Studio 7.0 provides everything a developer needs to quickly build dynamic, professional-grade PHP applications with high performance, security, and reliability,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies. “Zend Studio, together with Zend Framework and Zend Server, provides a PHP solution that addresses the entire Web application lifecycle, from development to production.”
Zend Studio is the leading PHP IDE, providing a complete, professional-grade environment to maximize PHP developer productivity. Built on the Zend-led Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) 2.1 open source software – currently the most popular Eclipse project – Zend Studio is the only IDE available for developers that encompasses all the capabilities needed to build professional-grade business applications. In addition, Zend Studio customers benefit from the huge ecosystem of solutions available to the Eclipse community.
Zend Studio 7.0 adds many new features and enhancements to ease development and increase performance of Web application development. Indicative of customer interest, the beta version has been downloaded from the Zend Website ( http://www.zend.com ) over 20,000 times since it was released last month.
Key new features in Zend Studio 7.0 include:
- Support for PHP 5.3: Zend Studio 7.0 is a complete IDE for the new PHP version 5.3. Zend Studio’s support for 5.3 features makes for easier maintenance and more concise code with code assist, new syntax highlighting, and new language features in PHP 5.3, such as namespaces and closures, which allow programmers to better organize their code and use more dynamic coding patterns.
- Point-and-click Zend Framework coding: Better integration with Zend Framework, the leading PHP development framework, delivers more productive engineering with rapid application development (RAD) programming, enabling point-and-click creation of standards-based, customizable, professional-grade Zend Framework applications.
- Enhanced integration with Zend Server: Zend Studio 7.0’s support for Zend Server — Zend’s Web application server for deploying, managing and monitoring PHP Web applications — delivers significantly faster and more reliable software. Zend Server maximizes PHP application reliability, security, and performance in the enterprise with ongoing application monitoring, security fixes, product updates and event notifications.
For more information about the new features and functionality in Zend Studio 7.0, please go to http://www.zend.com/products/studio
Jon Whitcraft, lead application developer for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, commented, “Zend Studio is hands down our PHP IDE of choice for our high traffic Web sites, such as indy500.com The upgrade from Zend Studio for Eclipse 6.1 to 7.0 is significant, as our team can now rapidly build out our Zend Framework-based applications and easily deploy them on Zend Server to further boost performance and ease of maintenance.”
In other news today
Zend Technologies announced that Zend Framework 1.9 will be released this Friday and will include PHP 5.3 and 5.2 support, plus new and enhanced professional level features for web application development. For more detail, please go here: http://tinyurl.com/zendframework1-9-0announced
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP is used by more than 20 million Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 27,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
# # #Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend Framework, Zend.com, Zend Server, and Zend Studio, and associated logos and icons, are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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pr@zend.com - Zend Solution Included in IBM Smart Business
Customers benefit from wide variety of PHP applications and the productivity, performance, and low cost of ownership of Zend solution for PHP
CUPERTINO, Calif., June 24, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, today announced that IBM will ship Zend’s solution for PHP in every IBM Smart Business system in order to provide their customers with reliability, performance, and security for PHP-based Web applications. Today’s announcement marks a significant expansion of the IBM and Zend partnership by now including PHP on Linux operating systems and x86 hardware in addition to IBM i OS and Power Systems hardware.
Software vendors participating in IBM’s Smart Business market are providing turnkey PHP web applications and will benefit from the high performance and automatic updates available with Zend’s web application solution.
Turnkey PHP applications simplify business owner’s IT needs. Zend’s offering includes PHP in a standardized form that is automatically updated via IBM’s integrated support software for applications that are designed for IBM Smart Business systems. This means a business owner’s IBM Smart Business system gets a complete, certified PHP stack with automated software updates and security patches. Zend supports the most popular databases, including DB2, as well as broadly used operating systems, including Linux and IBM i.
“Zend plays a key role in IBM’s Smart Business strategy to bring the breadth of the vast PHP ecosystem to small and medium businesses. With Zend we’re able to provide an integrated, reliable, and high performing business solution that leverages popular PHP applications like CRM, HR management, ERP, supply chain management, and other SMB solutions,” said Juhi Jotwani, Vice President, IBM Smart Business. “IBM Smart Business is about a radically simple new way to acquire, use and manage IT.”
“With the entire IBM Smart Business program now shipping with Zend, a much broader segment of the business community benefits from PHP’s reliability, security, and high performance with our web application environment,” said Andi Gutmans, chief executive officer at Zend Technologies. “What’s really compelling about today’s announcement is that ISVs and business owners participating in the IBM Smart Business program can unlock the power of the wide, open market for PHP applications by deploying them on our platform.”
Zend has begun working with independent software vendors (ISVs) who are delivering one-stop PHP-based solutions for IBM’s Smart Business program, including vendors such as OpenPro, OrangeHRM, WebConcepts, and vTiger. WebConcepts offers a sophisticated retail inventory planning solution to their customers that is built with PHP.
“It only took 4 clicks on the Smart Business system to install everything, the DB2 database, customizations, restore definitions, the application code… everything! All of this took the skills of multiple people in the past and this is now the simplest, most painless experience I have ever had with IT. I never thought I would say that ‘IT stuff’ was fun, but this is simply amazing,” said Ray Young, chief executive officer at WebConcepts, a PHP-based ISV.
“There is truly huge business value to our company as a provider,” Young explained. “With Zend on Smart Business, we are able to eliminate almost all on-site cost. These resources can now be deployed on other tasks and our business customers benefit from a much lower cost of deployment.”
“The benefits of Smart Market and Smart Business are that they allow WebConcepts to reach businesses and markets that in the past we could not reach with our PHP applications and deliver them quickly and easily, both for us and for our end-customers.”
About Zend Technologies Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP is used by more than 20 million web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic web applications. Deployed at more than 27,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
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- New Zend Framework 1.8 Delivers Rapid Application Development (RAD) for PHP
Open source project benefits PHP developers and managers with new code generation and application management features, including programming support for the Amazon cloud
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 1, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, announced today a new version 1.8 release of Zend Framework. The project is an open, collaborative web application framework for PHP development and deployment that includes contributions from the open source community and Zend partners.
Rapid application development (RAD) is now possible with Zend Framework 1.8’s automated and customizable creation of PHP-based web applications. This feature lets users create their own standards and processes for specific business needs when creating Zend Framework-based applications.
Cloud programming support for Amazon’s infrastructure is now also a part of Zend Framework, with both S3 (simple storage service) and EC2 (elastic compute cloud) components to help users quickly build web applications to both store and serve data, and to manage application instances in the Amazon cloud. Cloud deployment means less upfront investment is needed by organizations seeking to leverage utility computing and scalable services and making some classes of web applications easier to scale and faster to develop.
“With true customizable RAD programming for PHP as well as support for cloud-based development, Zend Framework is the premier choice for businesses ranging from small to very large who are wanting to develop and deploy web applications in the quickest way possible,” said Zeev Suraski, co-founder and chief technology officer at Zend Technologies.
“Zend Framework is clearly the most popular PHP framework for professional use in the industry today and the timing could not have been better—with the availability of Zend Server released earlier this month, users can deploy our enterprise-grade framework and additionally get the performance and reliability of our new web application server,” Suraski continued. “Zend Server has been tuned to be the best solution for running Zend Framework applications in production, bar none.”
Zend Framework is freely available as part of the recently announced Zend Server ( http://www.zend.com/zendserverannounced ), as well as in a standalone download, and is supported by Zend Studio and Zend Server integration points for both development and deployment phases of the web application lifecycle. Zend Studio’s built-in support allows users to easily code and customize their Zend Framework application in development and specific Zend Framework performance enhancements in Zend Server enable easy, reliable, and high speed deployment in production. Zend Framework can be obtained as part of the free Zend Server Community Edition available here: http://www.zend.com/products/server/downloads-all
New Zend Framework 1.8 features and their benefits are listed below:
- Rapid application prototyping is achieved with the Zend_Tool component. It provides an advanced infrastructure for generating and managing Zend Framework applications. Zend_Tool comes with a command line client (for instance, just type ‘zf create project’), however its additional remote procedure call-based (RPC) interface allows tooling components to be consumed via other RPC clients that may be custom-built for a user’s business need. Additionally, while developers may use the provided functionality, they may also drop in their own tooling classes for Zend_Tool to auto-discover and consume—making this a versatile solution for rapid application development and code management.
- Take your Zend Framework applications to the cloud. Zend Framework 1.8 adds components that support Amazon Web Services S3 and EC2, providing developers with the ability to both store and serve data redundantly for their applications as well as manage virtual machines in Amazon’s elastic compute cloud.
- Zend Server backend for Zend Framework (ZF): use the Zend_Cache ZF component for Zend Server’s caching API to dramatically improve the performance of your PHP applications.
- Re-usable and extensible application bootstrapping and initialization using Zend_Application. This component provides an object-oriented and configuration-driven mechanism for setting up your PHP environment, for autoloading library code, and for application startup, making it very easy to create reusable and selective resource initialization routines for your particular application.
- Internationalization with translation-aware web address routing by using locale-specific URLs in your Zend Framework MVC applications, plus locale support in numeric validation components, phone code support for locales, and support for filtering localized data to a normalized form and vice versa.
Other Zend Framework 1.8 updates too numerous to itemize include:
- Ajax/JavaScript programming updated with Dojo version 1.3 plus arbitrary Dojo dijit types; comprehensive SOAP headers for enterprise data connectivity; Lucene search keyword fields with query strings and search across multiple indices; PDF document page scaling, shifting, and skewing; tag cloud creation and management; configurable site navigation elements like breadcrumbs, sitemaps, menus, and more; file upload progress meters for console and web applications; and JavaScript callbacks and literals for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data transfers.
To find out more about Zend’s support for community-based and open-source projects like Zend Framework, please visit: http://www.zend.com/community
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP is used by more than 20 million Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 27,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
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+1 408 253 8812 - Zend Technologies Launches New Zend Server Community Edition as Free Download for Developers and PHP Application Users
First-ever Zend Server Community Edition gives developers and users
an easy, all-in-one, faster way to run PHP applicationsCUPERTINO, Calif., April 7, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, announced today the general availability of Zend Server Community Edition, a web application server that offers both ease-of-use and better performance in one simple package for PHP-based Web applications. This free to download version is available now at: http://www.zend.com/products/server/downloads-all
“Zend’s mission is to give customers a suite of world-class solutions built around the advantages of PHP that helps them throughout the entire Web application lifecycle, from development to production,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies. “We’re committed to giving developers and others a simple, quick, out-of-the-box experience to create, maintain, and run PHP-based Web applications. Our new Zend Server Community Edition (CE) completes the suite that includes the open-source Zend Framework and PHP Development Tools (PDT) projects that we lead and sponsor, so that for the first time developers can test and deploy their PHP applications at no cost on our server platform and realize the benefits of our latest improvements in consistency, performance, and usability when deploying them in non-critical settings.”
Zend Server CE is a completely free version of Zend Server that runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X, specifically tuned to address the needs of non-critical server deployments and for developer desktops/laptops everywhere. Zend Server CE comes with the same high-performance opcode caching and easy-to-use PHP administration capabilities as the commercial Zend Server. The Zend Server commercial subscription also announced today additionally provides technical support, application monitoring and diagnostics, and page-caching for even higher performance—all features that commercial users require to maximize the efficiency of their business-critical PHP applications.
“As PHP transitions from a dynamic, disruptive technology within enterprises to a mainstream technology option, it will be critical for it to be as manageable as the languages and platforms that preceded it,” said Stephen O’Grady, principal at RedMonk, a leading technology analyst firm. “With the introduction of a community-supported server product, Zend is providing the PHP community with the tooling and infrastructure that IT management is familiar with and relies upon, thus smoothing the way for broad adoption.”Zend Server is the platform of choice for deploying open-source PHP and Zend Framework-based PHP applications, including rich Internet applications (RIAs) built on various client-side technologies such as the open-source Flex framework on the Adobe® Flash® platform and Dojo Toolkit or JQuery on JavaScript.
“Adobe is pleased that Zend Server tightly integrates with Zend Framework because of its strong support for the open-source Flex framework. With the Zend Server Community Edition, PHP developers using the Flex framework can now enjoy a community-supported all-in-one PHP stack for deploying RIAs,” said Michele Turner, vice president of product marketing and developer relations for the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “Enterprise customers searching for the most cost-effective and productive way to create rich Internet applications will benefit from an integrated PHP stack like Zend Server as it will help increase development productivity even further.”With a simple, 5 minute install Zend Framework and PHP RIAs and other popular PHP applications like Drupal CMS, SugarCRM, and more, can now be deployed easily, quickly, and with higher performance using Zend Server Community Edition.
Zend Server CE demonstrates the commitment of Zend Technologies to developer communities worldwide, regardless of operating system platform of choice. Developers in the Windows community for example, are seeing more and more benefits of PHP in their Microsoft environments, including significant performance gains.
“Our firm’s partnership with Zend has altered the landscape for us in providing high-performance PHP on the Windows platform. In our own in-house stress testing using JMeter, we’ve maxed out 8 CPU cores at 100% executing thousands of PHP requests, and pages return quickly and without errors. This simply wasn’t possible before,” said John Chertudi, systems administrator at Rubicon International, an educational technology services firm. “We are able to design and support stable, high performing PHP applications on Windows thanks to the work done by Microsoft and Zend.”
In other news today
Zend Technologies also announced its commercially supported Zend Server for high-performance, reliable, and secure deployment of PHP-based Web applications. Please see separate press release at: http://www.zend.com/zendserverannouncedAbout Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP is used by more than 20 million Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 27,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
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+1 408 253 8812 - Zend Technologies Launches Zend Server for High Performance, Reliable, and Secure Deployment of PHP-Based Web Applications
Customers benefit from higher productivity, cost savings, and an integrated suite of Zend PHP solutions,
from development and testing to deployment and maintenanceCUPERTINO, Calif., April 7, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, announced today the general availability of Zend Server, a Web application server that offers new levels of reliability, performance, and security for PHP-based Web applications. With a focus on usability and native updates, customers benefit from a complete IT-ready solution that also integrates Zend Studio for Eclipse and Zend Framework to make it faster and easier than ever before to develop and deploy rich, reliable, and secure Web applications using PHP.
The new Zend Server is a complete Web application solution that includes PHP, native install, an enhanced code accelerator, and advanced monitoring and problem diagnostics for applications designed for deployment on a single server. In addition, Zend Server automates software updates, hot fixes, and security patches on both Linux (native RPM and DEB based repositories) and Microsoft Windows (MSI), for quick and easy installation in less than 5 minutes. Zend Server supports the most popular databases, including Oracle® Database, MySQL, and Microsoft® SQL Server, as well as leading operating systems from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu/Debian to Microsoft Windows Server and more.
“With our new Zend Server, it’s never been easier for customers to build and deploy on PHP even in the most demanding production environments,” said Eldad Maniv, vice president of marketing & products for Zend Technologies. “With this new release, customers will see dramatic improvements in performance, security, and reliability on top of the enterprise-class support and service that they have come to expect from our commercial solutions.”
“With more than 80 million users on our social network site – running our PHP-based social networking platform that is deployed on hundreds of servers – performance is a top priority at Tagged.com,” said Johann Schleier-Smith, founder and CTO at Tagged.com. “Tagged has been growing exponentially, and Zend has been supporting our growth for over five years. Zend Server’s production-level SLA support, including PHP updates–we have received critical fixes through this mechanism in the past, for specific PHP extensions–plus security hot fixes, and built-in byte code acceleration, are all absolutely essential to providing the reliability and responsiveness our users demand.
“In testing, we have measured significantly better performance with Zend Server than we were experiencing before,” remarked Schleier-Smith. “We’re pleased that Zend has raised the bar for PHP performance and reliability with this next generation Web application server and its SLA-based support subscription.”In addition to new benefits for performance, reliability, simplified deployment, and PHP application management, Zend Server gives customers the advantage of a global ecosystem of commercial and open source developers, systems integrators, and technology partners, including Microsoft and Oracle.
“Microsoft and Zend have collaborated for more than three years to make PHP a first-class citizen on Microsoft Windows. Zend Server encapsulates the various efforts made by both companies and the community to deliver a reliable, scalable, out-of-the-box experience for running business-critical PHP applications on Windows,” said Bill Staples, general manager of Web platform and tools at Microsoft Corp. “This continues our strategy to deliver choice and interoperability to our customers, and we are committed to continue supporting PHP on Windows.”
Oracle and Zend have a long-standing relationship to enable IT organizations to leverage the security, performance, and reliability of both Zend Server and Oracle Database for their PHP development and deployment needs.
“Oracle’s unique position as a complete software infrastructure provider is enhanced by our collaboration with Zend and their release today of Zend Server. Customers with PHP implementations can now benefit from Oracle-specific features including database resident connection pooling support, and the unparalleled reliability, security, and performance of Oracle Database 11g. They can also take advantage of Oracle’s unique high availability and scalability capabilities with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Data Guard,” said Mike Hichwa, vice president for software development at Oracle. “We are confident that our customers will realize even greater gains from the combination of Zend Server with Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Enterprise Linux.”
Pricing and availability
Zend Server is available worldwide, direct from Zend. Download Zend Server now at: http://www.zend.com/products/server/downloads Free 30-day trial license requests are fulfilled immediately at this same link. Pricing starts at $1,195 for an annual product subscription.In other news today
Zend Technologies also announced its first ever Zend Server Community Edition (CE) that gives developers and users an easy, all-in-one, faster way to run PHP applications. Please see separate press release at: http://www.zend.com/zendserverceannounced
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP is used by more than 20 million Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 27,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
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