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Zend PHP Cloud Application Platform

Build, Deploy, Run and Scale your PHP Application in the Cloud

If you’re running or planning to run a business-critical PHP application in the cloud, you will need to overcome various challenges, such as ensuring PHP configuration consistency, session clustering, problem identification, portability, and more. To take advantage of the elasticity, flexibility and cost benefits of the cloud, you will need a cloud application platform that addresses these challenges.

The Zend PHP cloud application platform includes all the components required for successfully developing, running and scaling business-critical PHP applications in the cloud. With the Zend PHP cloud application platform, you will achieve:

Streamlined development, testing and deployment processes
Elasticity required to meet varying demand
Portability across different clouds and flexibility to customize your environment
Application performance and availability
Cost reduction through increased efficiency throughout the application lifecycle

Rapid Development of Portable Cloud Applications with Zend Framework

The open source Zend Framework speeds up the development of cloud applications with components for accessing Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 cloud services. It also enables you to write portable code using the SimpleCloud API.

Zend Framework provides the following cloud components:

Document Service integration
Queue Service integration
Storage service integration
Amazon EC2 component
Windows Azure component

Learn how to use Zend Framework for building cloud applications»

Zend Framework - Develop PHP Cloud Applications

Application Management and Scalability with Zend Server and Zend Server Cluster Manager

Zend Server is an enterprise-ready PHP Web Application Server that comprises a supported PHP application stack as well as extensive application management capabilities that improve performance, reliability and scalability of cloud-based applications, including:

Zend Server in the Cloud

PHP configuration management

Simple clustered application deployment

Cloud-ready session clustering for high availability

Monitoring of multi-server PHP applications

Problem diagnostics and Zend Studio integration

Unlimited, annual subscription or pay-per-use pricing

You can access Zend Server in one of several ways:

Download and install on-premise or in the cloud

Use Zend Server in the Amazon cloud

Use Zend Server in RightScale cloud

Enhanced Development Process with Zend Studio

With Zend Studio you can take advantage of virtualization and cloud technologies by running and debugging your PHP application on remote server or a virtual machine, ensuring you use an environment that is similar to that used in production.

Zend Studio includes several capabilities that speed up cloud application development: