Zend Framework University

Presenter: Enrico Zimuel

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Join Jan Burkl, Zend Solution Consultant, for a live demo and learn how to develop and test on phpcloud.com with a Zend Framework application and its Zend_Cloud component, and how to deploy on a dynamically scalable cluster afterwards.

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ZendCon 2011, Santa Clara CA – October 18, 2011 – Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced phpcloud.com, an innovative technology platform and partner ecosystem for cloud application development and delivery aimed at helping PHP developers build the next generation of web applications. Previewing the new platform at ZendCon will be Zend co-founders Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, who are among the early authors of PHP — the foundational language for leading social apps and networks including Facebook, Zynga, Drupal and Yahoo! — now used by five million developers.

phpcloud.com by Zend – A Smarter Way to Develop and Run Web Apps in the Cloud
phpcloud.com brings together an open technology platform and an industry-leading partner ecosystem that will offer a smarter way of working in the cloud. With phpcloud.com, PHP developers can experience the power of a fast, iterative development environment and an automated, massively scalable production environment, with the freedom to deploy on any cloud. 

Zend Application Fabric provides an open, elastic platform with everything needed to successfully run and scale business-critical PHP applications on public and private cloud infrastructures.  Streamlining development, testing and deployment processes saves time and helps improve application quality. Auto-scaling leverages the cloud’s elastic nature to maintain high availability despite fluctuating and unpredictable demand. Cross-cloud portability provides freedom of choice to deploy to leading cloud infrastructures, including Amazon Web Services, IBM SmartCloud, Rackspace and Red Hat, and for deployment on-premise. The ability to optimize performance helps ensure that modern web applications meet users’ high expectations for responsiveness.

Zend Developer Cloud provides both a free developer sandbox that enables instant developer productivity, and deep application insight tools such as code tracing that enable real-time bug squashing. It includes a robust PHP runtime, Zend Framework and more, so there’s no need to spend time on building the stack.  Zend Developer Cloud also offers collaborative capabilities, making it easy for developers to share source code files, show work in progress to stakeholders, and team up productively on large-scale joint development projects.

Partner Ecosystem
Zend is collaborating with industry-leading partners who are committed to supporting deployment of cloud-ready apps running on the Zend Application Fabric. Joining Zend in cloud-focused keynote presentations at ZendCon will be Amazon Web Services, IBM, Rackspace, Red Hat and RightScale.

Quote:  Adrian Otto, Chief of Research, Rackspace
“Zend Application Fabric provides valuable visibility into the performance and health of running cloud applications, while simplifying what it takes to run highly available and fault tolerant PHP applications.  Rackspace is thrilled when tools like this enable our customers to use the technology they want while enjoying the Fanatical Support® experience they love.”

Quote:  Michael Crandell, CEO, RightScale
“The RightScale Cloud Management Platform together with Zend Application Fabric gives customers the ability to deploy scalable enterprise PHP applications on a variety of clouds, such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Our jointly developed RightScale Zend PHP Solution Pack provides a high-quality proven architecture that allows for super fast on-boarding and auto-scaling as well as customizing PHP application deployments. By using RightScale, customers ensure portability and distribution across clouds for high availability and geographic needs.”

Zend Previews Zend Framework 2.0
ZendCon attendees will also be the first to preview new cloud capabilities in Zend Framework, the leading application development framework for PHP applications. Zend Framework 2.0 will include a new version of SimpleCloud API, featuring the ability to manipulate cloud server instances on Amazon EC2 and Rackspace, with support for Windows Azure and GoGrid planned for a future release. Zend Framework’s Model-View-Controller (MVC) layer has been re-architected to deliver significant advances in both performance and flexibility. In addition, a new event system enables integration with Zend Framework workflows and provides flexible workflows in enterprise applications.

About ZendCon 2011
Now celebrating its 7th year of PHP community-building and growth, ZendCon 2011 will be held from Oct. 17-20 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.  Along with keynotes by Zend, eBay, Amazon and MongoDB, ZendCon 2011 provides four days of professional education, training and networking opportunities for the PHP community. The event targets professional developers, IT/development managers, system administrators and business managers, offering 12 focus areas with over 80 sessions and tutorials.  Event sponsors include IBM, Adobe, RightScale, MongoDB/10gen, JetBrains, Mashery, and OSSCube. To learn more or to register, visit http://www.zendcon.com.

About Zend Technologies
Zend provides the best way to deliver web apps in the cloud. Co-founded in 1999 by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, Zend helped establish the PHP language, which runs more than one-third of the world’s Web sites. Today, Zend is the leading provider of software and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical applications in PHP. Zend’s award-winning PHP solutions including Zend Server and Zend Studio are used by more than 40,000 companies, including: NYSE Euronext, BNP Paribas, GE, Bell Helicopter, France Telecom and other leading brands worldwide. Learn more at www.zend.com.

ZendCon 2011, Santa Clara, CALIF – October 18, 2011 – Zend Technologies today announced phpcloud.com. For millions of developers looking to develop for the cloud, phpcloud.com will provide a uniquely productive developer experience and a robust application platform provided by Zend, the PHP Company, on the proven cloud infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS). phpcloud.com offers developers the power to build, deploy and manage cloud apps with greater ease while reaping cloud benefits of elasticity, scalability and economy.

Data growth, unpredictable traffic, and rising expectations for on-demand, always-available web performance, are driving demand for scalable and reliable enterprise apps. To meet this challenge, developers want to tap the dynamic and elastic nature of the cloud and the agility of PHP so they can deliver quality web apps quickly and cost-effectively. Together, Amazon Web Services and Zend are providing a reliable, scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure and PHP Platform as a Service (PaaS).

“We are excited to see Zend utilize Amazon Web Services to provide the underlying services for phpcloud.com,” said Terry Wise, Director of Business Development, Amazon Web Services. “This service will enable developers to harness our elastic, secure, pay-as-you-go platform, providing them the flexibility to build their applications the way they want to.”

“phpcloud.com provides the developer community with industry-leading tools, a rock-solid PHP runtime, and app life cycle best practices,” said Zend CEO Andi Gutmans. “All this on AWS, a most reliable and scalable cloud infrastructure that has been proven in some of the world’s largest online enterprises. Now developers can have more time for coding and the ability to deploy cloud apps quickly and confidently in response to changing business requirements, and be the heroes of their organizations by delivering better quality apps in less time.”

Inside phpcloud.com

phpcloud.com offers Zend Developer Cloud, a uniquely productive cloud development environment; and Zend Application Fabric, a robust application platform that delivers best of breed PHP on Amazon Web Services.  The availability of phpcloud.com on the established and economical AWS infrastructure makes it a highly appealing alternative for SMB and enterprise developers regardless of their business or industry segment.

Zend Developer Cloud – Development done right.

Zend Developer Cloud provides both a free PHP developer sandbox that enables instant developer productivity and deep application insight tools such as code tracing that enable real-time debugging and problem resolution.  Zend Developer Cloud also offers collaborative capabilities, making it easy for developers to show work in progress to stakeholders, and facilitating collaboration on large-scale joint development projects. All of these elements combine to help developers accelerate delivery of quality application code.

• Instant productivity with a development sandbox available in seconds
• Powerful tooling to make troubleshooting easier
• Collaboration with peers and stakeholders is more natural because it is easy to clone and share fully functional application stacks
• Teams can build and test production-ready deployment packages with greater confidence
• Developers have the advantage of integration with a range of popular development environment options; for example, Zend Studio, Eclipse PDT, command line interface, and other tools.

Zend Application Fabric – Fast, elastic and dependable.

Zend Application Fabric is an application platform that delivers best of breed PHP on Amazon Web Services.  Integrated with Zend Developer Cloud, Zend Application Fabric offers a robust platform that fully leverages the power of the cloud.  Using Zend Application Fabric, teams can deploy with the confidence of knowing that their cloud apps can meet end-user expectation for fast responses, while being elastic enough to scale with fluctuating and unpredictable demand, and dependable enough to ensure high availability in today’s always connected, always-on world.

• Enterprise-class, secure PHP Stack, fully supported by Zend, the PHP Company
• The dependability of built-in application monitoring and management
• Auto-scaling to scale up or down while retaining high availability without changing a line of application code
• A consistent, industrial-strength deployment environment based on Zend Server technology and best practices
• Easy integration into cloud management and data center automation solutions
• Multi-level performance optimization including caching and job queuing
• Real-time visibility and resolution of application issues via Code Tracing with root-cause analysis

According to Sam Hennessy, Software Architect, i3logix, “phpcloud.com will allow us to monitor and manage the custom PHP web apps we build, from development through deployment. These apps are deployed to a large number of QA, UAT and Demo environments. With Zend Developer Cloud we can set up an environment to run ad hoc demos of new application feature sets, without the need to involve a sysadmin. It gives us a consistent develop-deploy environment from workstation to cloud. We can provide our QA team with a packaged app that they can deploy and test within the Developer Cloud, and we can respond to customers faster showing work in progress and developing iteratively.”  i3logix provides intelligent software with innovative products and services to business and industry worldwide, specializing in human capital and healthcare.

“Zend Developer Cloud has great potential for both corporate and freelance PHP developers,” said Cal Evans, CMO, Blue Parabola. “Kudos to Zend on making it incredibly simple to set up a cloud development environment and be up and running in short order. In my opinion, it’s worthwhile for every PHP developer to snag a development account and get involved with the PHP community in this cloud development experience.”   Blue Parabola provides professional PHP consulting services.

Phpcloud.com at ZendCon 2011

phpcloud.com will be unveiled today by Zend co-founders Andi Gutmans (Zend CEO) and Zeev Suraski (Zend CTO) during the opening keynote at ZendCon 2011, a popular annual gathering of PHP thought leaders and developers from around the world, at Northern California’s Santa Clara Convention Center.

About Zend Technologies

Zend is a partner to business for the rapid delivery of modern apps across mobile and cloud. We are the leading provider of software and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical applications in PHP, which runs more than one-third of the world’s Web sites. Zend’s industry-leading PHP solutions, including Zend Server and Zend Studio, are deployed at more than 40,000 companies worldwide, providing a comprehensive solution for the entire application lifecycle. Learn more at www.zend.com.

Today’s IT challenges are to deliver application services faster, with higher quality, and with superior economics. And as businesses respond to these challenges by leveraging existing and new applications, they face a rapidly changing set of options for development platforms, web technologies, programming languages, and modernization tools. IBM i developers are uniquely positioned to take advantage of new technologies — like WebSphere® and PHP™ — while capitalizing on their existing application investments in RPG® and other traditional languages.

Join this webcast to learn from more from a renowned panel of speakers.  Alison Butterill will review the latest industry trends for IBM i application development and modernization, including IBM Rational® development and collaboration tools. Mike Pavlak will share the latest news from Zend™ and Susan Gantner will give her perspective of what’s hot in IBM i development shops.

Speakers:

• Alison Butterill, Offering Manager, IBM Power Systems
• Mike Pavlak, Solution Consultant, Zend Technologies
• Susan Gantner, Partner400