Zend & Partners Release Simple Cloud API for Zend Framework

Zend Framework has new very powerful component. Today Zend, IBM, Microsoft, Nirvanix, Rackspace and GoGrid have announced launching Simple API for Cloud Applications Services project.

The project aims to facilitate the development of cloud applications that can access services on all major cloud platforms. (…) 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.

This way Zend Framework Community was given powerful component for interacting with cloud technologies, another reason to make it first choice framework for PHP applications.

Announcement was quickly noticed by the community. Maarten Balliauw wrote a post on his blog giving quick and short introduction to new API. He shows how in just few lines upload some data and list the items in a Windows Azure Blob Storage container using the Simple Cloud API.