Zend Technologies, Inc. announced the latest version of Zend Server for IBM i. Zend Server 6 enables enterprises with IBM i systems to create, publish and manage mobile applications on their IBM i system, while leveraging the value of existing back-end programs, applications and business logic. Applications must be designed to leverage both the contextual information on a mobile device, and the business logic and data that reside on back end systems. This requires integration with existing systems, support of multiple mobile device types, and a more rapid and iterative development and deployment approach. The company Server runs natively on the IBM i. It provides a fully supported platform for creating modern web and mobile applications that access the RPG/COBOL code, as well as business logic and the DB2/400 database that resides on the IBM i. This means that IBM i clients can avoid the significant risk and cost of rewriting their legacy business logic in order to launch new modern applications. Instead, IBM i users can focus their resources on unlocking new opportunities. Using Zend Server 6 together with Zend Studio 10, IBM i clients can create, test and deploy mobile applications that run across multiple mobile operating systems such as Apple's iOS, Android and Windows. Zend Studio provides a powerful visual environment where a developer can simultaneously create and associate the front end of the mobile application and the back-end web service APIs (RPC-style or RESTful services) that run on Zend Server. This streamlines the process of creating, testing and deploying mobile applications, enabling developers with no prior experience to quickly become successful. In addition, rather than developing native apps for each mobile platform, whether iOS, Android or Windows Phone, developers can create apps powered by Apache Cordova (also known as PhoneGap) that run across multiple mobile devices, leveraging open-standards such as HTML5 & JavaScript. Zend Server 6 also provides a number of features to support the more frequent release cycles and real-time troubleshooting required by modern web and mobile applications. This includes automated deployment capabilities, which enable faster and safer application releases, and the ability to roll back to a previous version of the application if required. Zend Server's troubleshooting capabilities provide direct insight into root cause of any application issues, and include a recorded method-by-method snapshot of the underlying code execution, enabling developers to more rapidly solve any problems. In addition, Zend Server provides advanced application monitoring, where an administrator can deploy and manage rules application by application, including setting separate thresholds to proactively manage each application's performance. The new Zend Server dashboards provide a full view of an application's health at a glance, as well as a clear view of every change to system configurations.

Zend Technologies, Inc. announced the general availability of Zend Studio 10. The integrated development environment for application developers using PHP, Zend Studio 10 streamlines the process of creating, testing and deploying PHP applications, with particular focus on mobile apps with a PHP back-end. Developers can prototype, create and debug both client-side mobile apps and server-side PHP APIs from a single interface. Maximize Development Productivity: Zend Studio 10 enables developers to develop and maintain their PHP code faster, solve application problems more quickly, take advantage of the cloud and improve team collaboration. Productivity is further enhanced through the streamlining of common workflows and by removing steps from the development process. An array of new PHP editor features includes fully supported PHP 5.4 syntax, improved context based content assist, unused 'use' statement and 'Type not found' warnings, and PSR-2 compliant formatter settings; Faster debugging, integrated PHP and JavaScript debugging, profiling, code inspection & quick fix, test generation & reporting; Smooth integration with Zend Server, automatic detection of local instance, one-click, fully configurable deployment feature with enhanced 'Development mode' that enables application monitoring and automatic 'upload on save'; Zend Studio 10 and Zend Server 6 provide an integrated debug mode, in which Zend Server 6 will automatically trigger a debugger session in Zend Studio 10 on any incoming request, whether from a mobile emulator or real device; Zend Studio 10 comes with latest Zend Framework 1.12.1/2.1.0 packages and PHP 5.3.21/5.4.11 executables; New noteworthy extra features available for installation via Studio's Welcome page include Composer dependency management library in PHP, Terminal feature for command line operations and DBeaver Universal Database Manager.

Zend Technologies, Inc. Presents at AGC Partners' 9th Annual InfoSec and Emerging Growth Conference, Feb-26-2013 09:45 AM. Venue: The Westin San Francisco Market Street, 50 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States.