Zend Platform
Web Application Server for Multi-Server Environments
Zend Platform Enterprise Solution (ES) provides high availability and performance for business-critical PHP applications running in a multi-server environment.
| High Availability Session Clustering Provides a high availability failover solution for your application |
Improved application performance Caching & Job Queue Built-in optimization and acceleration ensures high performance and low resource utilization |
Rapid response to problems Monitoring & Root Cause Analysis Advanced application monitoring and diagnostics enable early problem detection and quick root cause analysis |
Enterprise-grade PHP Zend Core An up-to-date, tested and supported PHP stack ensures high reliability, enhances security and increases staff productivity |
High Availability: Session Clustering
Zend Platform Enterprise Solution (ES) provides a high availability failover solution through built-in Session Clustering. Zend Platform ES synchronizes session data across clusters of servers and automatically transfers session data to another server in the event of failure to prevent loss of user sessions.
- Locking mechanism ensuring reliability and integrity at high load
- Fully distributable High Availability solution
- Seamless integration with any PHP native session extension without code changes
- 4x-6x times faster than other solutions in typical configurations
- Work with load-balancing technique ranging from round-robin DNS to sophisticated load balancers
View a recorded webinar on Session Clustering with Zend Platform
Improved Application Performance: Caching and Job Queue
Delivering optimized application performance is important not only for good user experience, but also for reducing hardware utilization and power consumption. Zend Platform Enterprise Solution (ES) includes a range of performance optimization technologies:
- Job Queue – Reduces user response times by queuing long running processes that are not essential for user interaction
- Code Acceleration – PHP bytecode caching increases performance with no application changes
- Full page caching – A URL-based HTML output cache requiring no application changes
- Partial page caching – A set of functions that enable developers to cache data in shared memory or to disk
- Zend Download Server – Offloads the process of sending files from the Apache Web server (on Linux) freeing it to handle more user requests
View a recorder webinar on improving application performance with Zend Platform
Download the white a paper “Scalability and Responsiveness with Zend Platform’s Job Queue
Manage Clustered Server Environment
Maintaining consistent performance settings and thresholds across a large number of servers can be a daunting task. Zend Platform ES provides centralized Configuration Management, which allows you to define the server configuration once and replicate it across any number of servers. This capability streamlines server management and eliminates errors.Rapid response to problems
Detect Problems before the Phone Rings
When things go wrong with your application, you want to know about it as soon as possible, and resolve the problem before end-users are impacted. Zend Platform Enterprise Solution (ES) enables you to take a proactive approach when it comes to ensuring the best user experience by monitoring PHP application execution on all your servers and alerting you to critical problems such as:
- Slow PHP script execution
- PHP errors
- Errors in specific function calls
- Excess memory usage
- Errors in called Java code
- And more…
Designed for clustered server environments, Zend Platform ES aggregates these events from all monitored servers and provides a unified view, making it easy for a system administrator to isolate the problematic server, application and script.
Pinpoint Root Cause
Knowing that a problem occurred is an essential first step, yet what really counts is how fast you can find its root cause and deliver a solution. Zend Platform ES is tightly integrated with Zend Studio to slash root cause analysis time.- Zend Platform captures full application execution data - such as variable values, call stack and environment information - in production when problems occur
- Developers open the data using Zend Studio and reproduce the production problem in the lab
- Zend Studio’s debugging capabilities help developers quickly pinpoint root cause and fix the problem
View a recorded webinar on application monitoring with Zend Platform
Enterprise-grade PHP: Zend Core
Zend Core is a certified PHP distribution that includes the most reliable and up-to-date version of PHP, tested PHP extensions, database drivers and other enhancements. Zend Core is bundled with Zend Framework (the leading open-source PHP framework), Apache and MySQL and IBM DB2 Express-C databases. The complete stack is built, tested and benchmarked to ensure optimum reliability and performance for multiple platforms.
Zend Core makes it easy to have consistent environments for each stage of the PHP application lifecycle, avoiding application errors that often go undiscovered during development, testing and staging because of subtle differences between these environments.
Zend Core provides:
- Unified, tested application stack installer, including PHP, Apache Web server, drivers for all common databases, extensions and Zend Framework
- Improved performance and reliability on Windows
- Admin UI for simple configuration of extensions and for PHP application monitoring
- Zend Core subscriptions for applying updates and patches from the Zend Network
- Zend Optimizer and Debugger extensions, which make it easy for PHP developers to ensure the quality of their PHP applications and to protect their applications from unauthorized use
