Zend - The PHP Company

Overview

Zend Server for IBM i is a robust PHP environment designed for businesses that require commercial-grade Web applications in high reliability production environments.  Zend Server for IBM i contains a complete, well-tested PHP stack, as well as all the necessary drivers and libraries to access IBM i data and resources like DB2 and 5250 devices. Built-in caching and acceleration ensure your PHP applications are delivering optimized performance, and integrated application monitoring and diagnostics enable you to quickly detect, isolate and resolve any failures or performance bottlenecks. Zend Server for IBM i users receive up to 24x7 technical support, continuous software updates, hot fixes, and security patches provided by Zend, The PHP Company.

Benefits

• Business-grade PHP: an up-to-date, tested and supported PHP stack ensures high reliability, enhances security and increases staff productivity
• Deploy rapidly and consistently: seamlessly move apps from development to production, standardize deployment processes, and cut out manual errors
• Rapid response to problems: advanced application monitoring and diagnostics enable early problem detection, and code tracing ensures quick root cause analysis
• Top application performance: built-in optimization and acceleration ensures high performance and low resource utilization
• IBM i application modernization: Leverage existing code and data to put PHP front ends on legacy systems with features like the PHP toolkit and 5250 bridge

Customer Testimonials

“I have saved up to four hours a day of debugging time using Code Tracing in Zend Server ,” said Drew Ewing, a PHP programmer at CyberMark International. “For 99.9% of the debug processes that I’m concerned with, Zend Server automatically gathers all of the necessary debug information that I used to gather manually. The countless hours I used to spend debugging transparent actions like jQuery updates, are now freed up to tackle more important programming issues.” CyberMark is an Internet marketing firm that specializes in SEO and PPC programs, social media marketing and website development.

"Zend Server plays a strategic role in helping us ensure a quality online shopping experience for our customers, even during peak traffic times,” said Josh Butts, director of Web development for Offers.com. “Zend Server monitors our application and performs code tracing to tell us when things go wrong and why, so we can quickly address issues as soon as they occur."

Features

• Native installation and PTF updates
• Certified PHP version
• PHP 5.2 and 5.3 Support
• Code tracing for rapid root casue analysis
• Zend Framework integration
• Apache integration
• 5250 bridge
• PHP toolkit for connectivity to RPG and other technologies
• Built-in database connectivity
• Web-based administrator console
• Debugger interface
• Application deployment/rollback
• Bytecode acceleration
• Caching API
• Page caching
• Java connector
• Job Queue
• Application monitoring and alerting
• Application problem diagnostics
• Software updates and hot fixes
• Technical support

Support Options

Zend Support offers a range of subscription offerings to meet your needs:

• Zend Gold Support - Gold Support Subscription equips you with additional support options to keep your Web applications available and on track. Unlike Silver, Gold subscriptions include telephone technical support with a 6 hour maximum response time. Gold subscriptions also include everything from Silver level support, as well as PHP critical bug fixes.
• Zend Platinum Support - Platinum Support Subscription gives you the level of coverage needed for business-critical applications – any truly business-critical initiative really requires the 24x7x365 technical phone support that comes with a Platinum subscription. Platinum subscriptions also include everything from Gold level support, as well as customer requested PHP fixes, and more.
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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems versions:

• v5R4
• i6.1
• i7.1

Learn More

• Zend Server Overview
• Zend Server Datasheet
• Zend Server Webinars