Introduction

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Zend Platform is a complete runtime environment for managing and maintaining mission critical and enterprise PHP applications from a single, centralized location.

This environment consists of cluster management, performance management, monitoring, detection and recovery; and Java integration.

Zend Platform improves both the end user experience and IT productivity by combining cluster and performance management; automated monitoring and detection capabilities; and powerful Java Integration capabilities into one integrated environment.

Zend Platform provides the PHP-enabled enterprise with the ability to:

• Manage every aspect of PHP from a single, Web-based interface

• Quickly drill-down to critical issues to resolve and optimize

• Create user defined thresholds and error values

• Configure servers from a remote management station and perform controls at a click of a button

• Clone servers: one-to-one and one-to-many

• Monitor performance improvement with Code Acceleration, Content Caching and File Compression

• Increase the efficiency of downloads using the Zend Download Server

• Integrate with Java system elements over Platform’s fully implemented PHP/Java Bridge

Zend Platform is a central management solution and run-time environment for:

• Configuration Management - Platform’s architecture provides full control of the PHP application platform, including performance management settings, event thresholds, etc., allowing administrators to set up groups of multiple identical servers via:

• • Remote server configuration.

  • Cloning configurations or parts of configurations from one server to another or from one server to an entire group of servers.

• Performance Management * - Platform is equipped with three management modules for tracking and improving speed and responsiveness of Web applications. These include Code Acceleration, Dynamic Content Caching and File Compression.

• PHP Intelligence - Platform features new technology that detects and recovers crashes, whether they occur in PHP itself, the database software, or your own application. The integrated suite of monitoring, detection and recovery features allows users to drill down to critical issues and optimizations quickly and easily.

• Session Clustering * - Zend Platform is equipped with a comprehensive solution for synchronizing session data across a cluster. Protect your applications from session corruption and erratic application behavior while providing an additional performance boost (up to x10). Immediately implement this solution to existing PHP code and attain linear scalability. Fully integrated with load balancers the Session Clustering module is a mechanism to ensure session data quality and integrity.

• Job Queues - Zend Platform’s Job-Queue provides PHP production environments with a standard approach to streamline offline processing. A Job-Queue server services the Job Queue that provides the ability to reroute and delay the execution of processes that are not essential during user interaction with the Web Server.

• BIRT Reports - Advanced reporting capabilities have been integrated into Zend Platform, to provide enterprise users with expandable reporting functionality, provided by Actuate's reporting application. Together with Zend Platform's Java Bridge it can extract reports from Java libraries and generate reports on any information. This solution is essentially a PHP API to the Actuate BIRT 2.0 run time environment that supports both PHP 4 and PHP 5.

• Java Bridge - The Platform PHP/Java Bridge module provides PHP centric companies with a well-rounded environment making sure that the organization benefits from the ”best of both worlds”. Be it existing investments in J2EE application servers that require this solution, or to provide a means for organizations, if they choose, to bridge language limitations by use of Java applications. The Java Bridge is not limited to interactions strictly with J2EE and legacy systems, the Platform PHP/Java Bridge also provides the ability to interact with plain Java objects.