I’m pleased to share that Red Hat and Zend today announced a partnership and the immediate
availability of Zend Server for Red Hat OpenShift. With this
partnership Red Hat and Zend are joining forces to support
professional PHP Cloud developers. A developer can now spin up a
gear of Zend Server on the OpenShift platform as a service and
instantly get access to a full ready to go enterprise class
development environment. Even better, we’ve integrated this PHP
platform as a service offering with Zend Studio, our industry
leading IDE – meaning that a developer can deploy their app
directly from Zend Studio to OpenShift in a few simple
clicks.
Red Hat knows what it takes to make open-source software
Enterprise-ready. They have shown leadership by taking
open-source technologies like Linux and KVM and invested in
productizing and supporting those technologies to make them not
just viable but a strong alternative for Enterprise customers.
With the acquisition of JBoss, Red Hat also entered the application
development space. I believe through that experience Red Hat has
learned that truly enabling Enterprise app development requires
not just a basic runtime but much more. It requires productive
and high quality workflows that span the application lifecycle,
strong development tools & frameworks and industrial-strength
runtimes that include strong management capabilities,
performance, scalability, reliability and support.
Zend Server & Zend Studio bring to OpenShift PHP what JBoss
brings to Openshift Java - an Enterprise-grade, end-to-end
solution for building, deploying and managing business-critical
applications. Or in other words – PHP done right for
businesses. Even better, while Zend brings to the table a
streamlined, industrial-strength way of doing PHP, Red Hat’s
OpenShift streamlines a lot of additional application development
requirements. For example, on OpenShift it is easy for developers
to instantly get up and running with a Zend Server based
environment in conjunction with the ability to instantaneously
add additional components to their environment such as a MySQL or
MongoDB server. It is the opportunity to focus the developers’
time on writing and debugging code as opposed to maintaining the
development environment – which we at Zend make even more
productive by providing great debugging tools and productivity
enhancers as part of our Red Hat integration.
With this partnership we are extending the deployment options for
our customer base. Red Hat OpenShift has unique capabilities
which we believe many of our customers will find beneficial. With
Red Hat’s public statement of intent to also bring Red Hat
OpenShift to private Cloud we will see even greater opportunity
for this partnership given both Zend & Red Hat will both
deliver a consistent environment and management capabilities for
deployment of apps across private and public cloud.
In two weeks from now we kick off ZendCon, our annual.
Red Hat OpenShift is a major sponsor of the conference and will
also be running a Hackathon at the conference. Zend also has a lot
more news coming out at ZendCon around development of mobile apps
and the next generation of our cloud management platform - much
of it will also benefit the Zend solution on Red Hat OpenShift.
So stay tuned and if you don’t have your passes yet then be sure
to get them asap!
Happy PHPing!
Oct
09
2012