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
  

Zend Core for Oracle

Zend and Oracle have partnered to deliver Zend Core for Oracle, a Web application solution that combines the production quality of Zend Core with native integration with the Oracle Database, and PHP support in the Oracle Application Server. The combined solution provides a certified, stable, high performance, easy-to-install PHP development and production environment based on best practices in configuring and tuning PHP leveraging the knowledge and experience of Zend and Oracle.

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Zend Core for i5/OS

Zend and IBM have partnered to deliver Zend Core for i5/OS, a high quality PHP 5 stack that provides System i businesses with a production quality solution for deployment and management of modern Web applications. For businesses who rely on System i, Zend Core for i5/OS is the most productive and cost-effective solution to rapid Web enablement and the integration of Web Services supporting SOA.  Zend Core for i5/OS has been enhanced with critical features to take advantage of i5/OS specific resources and capabilities such as an i5 toolkit to access DB2 and applications running on i5/OS.

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