Zend Framework University

Of all the common cloud services, cloud storage is the simplest for most people to understand. A virtually limitless “hard drive in the sky” is an extremely powerful idea. Unfortunately, different cloud vendors have different APIs. If you need to write a single application that backs up your data to multiple cloud storage vendors, you don’t want to have a separate code base for each one.

This webinar covers the Simple Cloud API’s Storage Service interface, showing you how to write applications that work with multiple vendors. We’ll cover the basics of storing and retrieving files as well as how to copy, move, rename and delete items. We’ll also look at how to work with the metadata each cloud vendor associates with items stored in its system. Finally, we’ll cover the more advanced case of how to handle situations in which a particular cloud vendor doesn’t support an operation you need. At the end of the webinar you’ll know how to use the Simple Cloud API to make the most of cloud storage while keeping your applications as flexible as possible.

It’s been over six months since the initial code release of the
SimpleCloud API, and the code has come a long way since then: thanks to the
efforts of Stas, Wil, and our partners, we now have a solid, well-tested,
documented code base that shows off integration with Amazon, Windows Azure,
and Nirvanix.