Zend Technologies Receives $9 Million In Funding Led By Greylock Following Record Sales in 2009
May/100
Investment to Fuel Accelerated Product Development and Rapid Geographic Expansion for PHP Market Leader
Cupertino, CA (PRWEB) May 17, 2010 — Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced that it has received $9 million in venture funding led by Greylock Partners, a current investor, with participation from all other Zend investors including Azure Capital Partners, Index Ventures, Intel Capital, SAP Ventures, Walden and others. The investment will fuel the Company’s accelerated product development and market expansion at a time when the entire PHP ecosystem is experiencing rapid adoption by mainstream corporate IT.
In 2009, Zend added 4,000 new customers, achieved record sales, and expanded into key geographies such as the U.K., the Netherlands and India. Zend now has more than 1,000,000 registered users. A primary driver of business growth is increasing demand for Zend Server, the Company’s PHP Web Application Server. Zend Server enables businesses to deliver reliable high-performance Web applications and maximize end-user satisfaction while dramatically reducing application development and management time and costs.
“Today’s enterprises are looking to agile Web and Cloud-based technologies such as PHP to deliver business value better and faster,” said Moshe Mor at Greylock Partners. “We believe that Zend’s leadership position in the PHP space enables the company to drive its solution to deeper adoption across a broad commercial audience in the U.S. and around the globe.”
“We are delighted to have the ongoing commitment of our distinguished investors as we take our company and technology to the next level and continue to grow our leadership in the PHP market with the best PHP solutions,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies. “Technology cooperation with IBM, Adobe, Oracle, Microsoft and other industry leaders further enables us to deliver Zend PHP solutions broadly into corporate IT departments where simple yet powerful and scalable solutions for rapid application development are in high demand.”
According to Gartner 2009 estimates*, more than 4 million developers use PHP for web application development. Hundreds of thousands of business-critical web applications are being built using PHP, including Zend customers such as BNP Paribas, General Electric, the U.S. Senate, AT&T and DHL.
Zend offers an end-to-end PHP solution for rapid and cost-effective development, deployment and management of web-based applications or modernized applications with web front ends. Zend’s integrated PHP web solution: Zend Framework, the best enterprise framework for systematic PHP projects; Zend Studio, the leading professional PHP integrated development environment (IDE), and Zend Server, a breakthrough web application server with built-in application monitoring, diagnostics and optimization tools for the PHP community.
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products deliver a comprehensive solution for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California, with worldwide operations in France, Germany, Ireland and Israel. Learn more at http://www.zend.com.
*PHP: Past, Present and Future. Mark Driver, Gartner, December 2, 2009.
http://www.zend.com/en/company/news/news-links/gartner-php-past-present-and-future
Zend Announces General Availability of Zend Server 5.0: New Version Delivers Increased Performance, Faster Problem Resolution for Critical PHP Web Applications
Feb/100
Zend Server 5.0 Reduces Problem Resolution Time by up to 50 Percent; Adds Job Queue for Improved End-user Experience; Includes Support for PHP 5.3
Cupertino, CA February 24, 2010 — Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced the general availability of Zend Server 5.0, a major new version of the company’s PHP Web application server. New Code Tracing technology in Zend Server 5.0 enables PHP developers and administrators to slash problem resolution time by up to 50%. For the first time, users have visibility into the behavior of their code in production environments, with the ability to pinpoint the root cause of application issues quickly and eliminate the time-consuming and sometimes near impossible task of recreating problems in order to resolve them.
“Zend Server 5.0 is a huge step forward for businesses running business-critical PHP Web applications,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder at Zend. “With this new version we are delivering application monitoring and diagnostics as part of the base application server at no additional cost. The new Code Tracing technology revolutionizes how businesses can reduce time spent on problem resolution. This and other enhancements will help businesses deliver reliable high-performance applications and maximize end-user satisfaction while reducing development and management time and costs.”
ZEND SERVER 5.0 – ENTERPRISE-GRADE PHP WEB APPLICATION SERVER
Zend Server 5.0 optimizes application performance through multiple PHP caching and acceleration technologies, helps detect and diagnose issues through application monitoring, and provides a complete, tested PHP application stack for Windows and Linux. The product is backed by expert technical support, online updates, hot fixes and security patches. Zend Server is fully integrated with the Zend Studio PHP IDE, and Zend Framework, the most popular open source PHP framework, creating the fastest and easiest solution for developing and deploying reliable and secure Web applications. Also available is a free, community edition of Zend Server.
INNOVATIVE CODE TRACING TECHNOLOGY
Zend Server 5.0 Code Tracing eliminates the need to recreate problems by automatically capturing in real-time the full execution history of an application in a production environment. Now developers can quickly find the root cause of a problem rather than following a lengthy, error-prone process to reproduce it. Code Tracing can be activated manually or automatically when performance degrades or errors are detected through Zend Server application monitoring.
A new Zend Server view, based on Adobe Flex, provides visibility into recorded data, showing a tree of function calls, arguments, errors and duration, as well as statistical information that helps in identifying performance bottlenecks in production.
With Zend Server 5.0, PHP developers can cut troubleshooting time by up to 50% and ensure greater application reliability while recouping valuable time for programming tasks.
“I have saved up to four hours a day of debugging time using Code Tracing in Zend Server 5.0,” 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.
INTEGRATED JOB QUEUE
Zend Server 5.0 Job Queue increases application performance and responsiveness by allowing jobs (PHP scripts) to be performed asynchronously or at recurring intervals, offloading tasks from client initiated Web requests to secondary processing. End users experience snappy responses in their Web browsers while long-running jobs like credit card processing, shipping and other activities proceed in the background. In addition, maintenance tasks such as database cleanup and RSS feed pulls can be run at specific times or at recurring intervals. The Job Queue feature is fully integrated into the Zend Server monitoring system and Web console, giving developers and other IT staff one place to monitor the overall execution of their applications, including status of jobs.
“Zend Server 5.0 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.”
SUPPORT FOR PHP 5.3
Zend Server includes support for both PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3, enabling programmers to take advantage of new language features such as namespaces and closures.
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Zend Server 5.0 supports Linux and Windows; an IBM i version is currently in beta.
ZEND WEBINAR, PRODUCT INFORMATION
Zend Server 5.0 Webinar – February 25, 2010 – 9:00 am PST
This free technical webinar will illustrate use of Zend Server 5.0 to troubleshoot production issues using the new code tracing feature, improve performance with job queue, and other capabilities. Register to attend.
For a complete list of new features and functionality in Zend Server 5.0, please go to the Zend Web site at http://www.zend.com/products/server.
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive solution for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend Framework, Zend.com, Zend Server, and associated logos and icons, are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Zend Issues Significant Update to Zend Studio 7 Enterprise PHP IDE
Dec/090
CUPERTINO, Calif., December 4, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, today announced the immediate availability of Zend Studio 7.1, which adds significant new capabilities to the company’s overall PHP solution. Designed to further improve developer productivity, Zend Studio 7.1 features new support for task-focused development, easy remote server synchronization, and support for PHP Archives (PHAR), in addition to previously announced support for PHP version 5.3 and deeper integration of the solution with Zend Framework and Zend Server.
Zend Studio is the only integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP that provides a complete, professional-grade workbench built on the Zend-led open source Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project, currently the most downloaded Eclipse project. Zend Studio customers benefit from the huge ecosystem of plug-in solutions available in the Eclipse community. The combined set of capabilities provides a solution that maximizes productivity for developers while providing the integration to Zend Framework and Zend Server that enterprises require.
“PHP is now widespread in many enterprises and this update to Zend Studio helps streamline team development processes by providing additional benefits for developers building dynamic, professional-grade PHP applications,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies. “Zend Studio is the only professional IDE for PHP that leverages the Eclipse ecosystem and together with Zend Framework and Zend Server provides a solution that addresses the entire lifecycle—development to production—for PHP-based Web applications.”
Zend Studio 7.1 adds features and enhancements to ease development tasks and increase developer productivity. New features in Zend Studio 7.1:
• Task-focused programming – By providing integration with the highly successful Eclipse Mylyn project, Zend Studio 7.1 lets developers be more productive by reducing information overload when switching between development tasks. Developers manage their work more effectively by identifying project elements – such as files, classes, and functions – related to a specific development task and displaying just those elements needed for the task at hand.
• Remote server support – By providing a simplified workflow that supports easy synchronization of project files to a remote server, developers can write code, debug, and test in environments that closely match the production environment eliminating many common cross platform errors early in the lifecycle.
• PHAR (“PHP Archive”) support – By providing support for the emerging PHAR technology, developers can group project files into a single file that simplifies distribution and installation of complete PHP applications.
• Plus numerous fixes and other software updates to enhance the stability and speed of Zend Studio.
In addition, Zend Studio 7.0, released mid-summer, has key features that include:
Support for PHP 5.3: Zend Studio 7.0 is a complete IDE for the new PHP version 5.3. Zend Studio’s support for 5.3 features makes for easier maintenance and more concise code with code assist, new syntax highlighting, and new language features in PHP 5.3, such as namespaces and closures, which allow programmers to better organize their code and use more dynamic coding patterns.
Point-and-click Zend Framework coding: Better integration with Zend Framework, the leading PHP development framework, delivers more productive engineering with rapid application development (RAD) programming, enabling point-and-click creation of standards-based, customizable, professional-grade Zend Framework applications.
Enhanced integration with Zend Server: Zend Studio 7.0’s support for Zend Server—Zend’s Web application server for deploying, managing, and monitoring PHP Web applications—delivers significantly faster and more reliable software. Zend Server maximizes PHP application reliability, security, and performance in the enterprise with ongoing application monitoring, security fixes, product updates, and event notifications.
For more information about the new features and functionality in Zend Studio 7, please visit http://www.zend.com/products/studio
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
Zend, Zend Technologies, Zend Framework, Zend.com, Zend Server, and Zend Studio, and associated logos and icons, are trademarks of Zend Technologies, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Zend and Varien Partner to Deliver an All-In-One PHP and eCommerce Solution
Nov/090
Varien’s Popular Open Source Magento eCommerce Software to Ship with Zend Server Community Edition PHP Stack
BARGENTO, PARIS – November 9, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, and Varien, developer of Magento, the world’s fastest growing eCommerce platform, today announced that they have partnered to make it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to quickly evaluate, develop, and deploy flexible, state-of-the-art ecommerce Web applications. As a result of the new partnership, the Community Edition of Varien’s popular Magento™ eCommerce software will ship with the Community Edition of Zend Server, Zend’s high performance PHP Web application server.
The companies also announced that the Varien and Zend teams and open-source communities are working together on two major initiatives. Varien will be contributing a number of significant native ecommerce features to the open source, industry-standard PHP framework, Zend Framework— an integrated part of Zend Server. Additionally, both Zend and Varien will be optimizing Magento, Zend Server, and Zend Framework to deliver peak performance for ecommerce applications.
“Magento is a robust ecommerce solution with open source reliability and flexibility – putting top-quality ecommerce functionality into the hands of virtually anyone,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies. “With the new all-in-one packaging of Magento and Zend Server, it’s extremely easy for any organization to set up, install and explore Web-based commerce on a Windows or Linux platform, with the confidence that their application will run with performance, efficiency and reliability. This combination removes virtually any barriers to developing high-quality ecommerce Web sites with PHP.”
The open source Magento eCommerce platform, developed with PHP 5 and Zend Framework, has been adopted by thousands of users and is implemented by businesses with Web applications processing many tens of thousands of orders per day using multiple servers and cluster architectures. The no-cost Magento Community Edition provides a basic and powerful solution for small shops looking for a state-of-the-art ecommerce platform. Users may upgrade to the Magento Enterprise Edition for more advanced features and support.
Zend Server Community Edition (CE) is a fast, reliable, no-cost PHP application stack that can be used in development, testing and production. Zend Server CE runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X and is specifically tuned to address the needs of developer desktops and laptops, as well as smaller server deployments everywhere. Zend Server is also available in a commercial, enterprise edition, which is a complete Web application server for running, monitoring and managing business-critical PHP applications that require a high level of reliability, performance, and security.
Using Magento CE with Zend Server CE, small and medium-sized businesses can quickly install, explore and start building state-of-the art shopping and other commerce-based Web sites with features such as catalog and order management, analytics, SEO, merchandizing, customer accounts and shipping, and then deploy them with ease on Zend Server. Users can develop Magento eCommerce applications on desktops running the Windows or Linux operating systems and deploy applications into production on both Windows and Linux. To further expand the ecommerce functionality readily available to PHP developers, Varien is also modularizing Magento and making a number of significant ecommerce feature contributions to Zend Framework, including payment gateways, shipping calculation modules, and others.
“Zend’s PHP solutions have played a major role in the development of Magento, and we are thrilled to contribute key ecommerce features back to Zend Framework to promote the development of PHP-based ecommerce,” said Roy Rubin, CEO at Varien. “Zend continues to demonstrate its unmatched expertise and strong commitment to PHP with products such as Zend Server, and we look forward to continuing to expand our partnership with them. In particular, we’re very excited that Zend Server’s support for PHP on Windows is unmatched anywhere else, as this makes exploring powerful ecommerce easy for businesses everywhere.”
Wonderbox is a vendor of romantic/adventure gift packages and does very high volumes during the holiday season and other gift-giving occasions, such as Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and so on. Wonderbox has an online language-specific presence in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Poland, and is opening soon in Japan, Belgium, Portugal, and elsewhere—so the international capabilities of Magento and Zend Framework are extremely important to their product plans, in addition to the open-source flexibility both are known for.
“Our Wonderbox site has been engineered for over 150,000 transactions a day and we estimate we will serve over 3 million visits during the December holiday season. We recently went from zero to a fully functioning production Web application taking customer orders in less than three months, by running Magento eCommerce on Zend Server,” said Fatih Gezen, chief technology officer at Wonderbox. “That is a compelling ROI and amazing technology story. We have in a very short time mastered the technology and can easily create intuitive online experiences for our customers to use to make purchases from us.”
“Zend Server out of the box gives us a secure, high-performing PHP stack with monitoring and other capabilities and the feature set in Magento had just about everything we needed to build our ecommerce site,” commented Chris Mann, deputy information director at Wonderbox. “We’ve additionally built a custom Magento module in Zend Framework. That has been easy to do based on the excellent training and support we’ve received from our consulting partners and from the large open-source community that’s available for both products.”
In addition to consulting partners who specialize in Magento/Zend Server installations, Zend and Varien also plan to cooperate on joint education, training, and other activities to promote ecommerce applications, including promotion of software lifecycle best practices and enterprise ecommerce training.
Availability
The complete all-in-one Magento and Zend Server solution stack is available today from both companies for download, meaning that together the huge Magento and Zend communities will have available in one package the leading PHP ecommerce solution and the best performing PHP stack. To learn more and to download these packages, please visit: http://www.magentocommerce.com/product/magento-zend or http://www.zend.com/solutions/packaged-php-applications/zend-server-magento
As announced today, the Magento eCommerce feature components will be made available for download from the Zend Framework project and will also ship as a part of the base Zend Framework that comes with every Magento eCommerce download. These will be made available as soon as the components are added to the Zend Framework project by the two teams.
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
About Magento
Magento is a feature-rich, professional Open Source eCommerce platform solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the presentation, content, and functionality of their online channel. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing tools, a catalog-management engine and is SEO optimized to give merchants the power to create sites that provide an unrivaled and rich online shopping experience for their customers, tailored to their unique business needs. Designed to be completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network, Magento is the ultimate eCommerce solution. For more information about Magento, visit http://www.MagentoCommerce.com.
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Zend Technologies Launches New Zend Server Community Edition as Free Download for Developers and PHP Application Users
Apr/090
an easy, all-in-one, faster way to run PHP applications
CUPERTINO, Calif., April 7, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, announced today the general availability of Zend Server Community Edition, a web application server that offers both ease-of-use and better performance in one simple package for PHP-based Web applications. This free to download version is available now at: http://www.zend.com/products/server/downloads-all
“Zend’s mission is to give customers a suite of world-class solutions built around the advantages of PHP that helps them throughout the entire Web application lifecycle, from development to production,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies. “We’re committed to giving developers and others a simple, quick, out-of-the-box experience to create, maintain, and run PHP-based Web applications. Our new Zend Server Community Edition (CE) completes the suite that includes the open-source Zend Framework and PHP Development Tools (PDT) projects that we lead and sponsor, so that for the first time developers can test and deploy their PHP applications at no cost on our server platform and realize the benefits of our latest improvements in consistency, performance, and usability when deploying them in non-critical settings.”
Zend Server CE is a completely free version of Zend Server that runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X, specifically tuned to address the needs of non-critical server deployments and for developer desktops/laptops everywhere. Zend Server CE comes with the same high-performance opcode caching and easy-to-use PHP administration capabilities as the commercial Zend Server. The Zend Server commercial subscription also announced today additionally provides technical support, application monitoring and diagnostics, and page-caching for even higher performance—all features that commercial users require to maximize the efficiency of their business-critical PHP applications.
“As PHP transitions from a dynamic, disruptive technology within enterprises to a mainstream technology option, it will be critical for it to be as manageable as the languages and platforms that preceded it,” said Stephen O’Grady, principal at RedMonk, a leading technology analyst firm. “With the introduction of a community-supported server product, Zend is providing the PHP community with the tooling and infrastructure that IT management is familiar with and relies upon, thus smoothing the way for broad adoption.”
Zend Server is the platform of choice for deploying open-source PHP and Zend Framework-based PHP applications, including rich Internet applications (RIAs) built on various client-side technologies such as the open-source Flex framework on the Adobe® Flash® platform and Dojo Toolkit or JQuery on JavaScript.
“Adobe is pleased that Zend Server tightly integrates with Zend Framework because of its strong support for the open-source Flex framework. With the Zend Server Community Edition, PHP developers using the Flex framework can now enjoy a community-supported all-in-one PHP stack for deploying RIAs,” said Michele Turner, vice president of product marketing and developer relations for the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “Enterprise customers searching for the most cost-effective and productive way to create rich Internet applications will benefit from an integrated PHP stack like Zend Server as it will help increase development productivity even further.”
With a simple, 5 minute install Zend Framework and PHP RIAs and other popular PHP applications like Drupal CMS, SugarCRM, and more, can now be deployed easily, quickly, and with higher performance using Zend Server Community Edition.
Zend Server CE demonstrates the commitment of Zend Technologies to developer communities worldwide, regardless of operating system platform of choice. Developers in the Windows community for example, are seeing more and more benefits of PHP in their Microsoft environments, including significant performance gains.
“Our firm’s partnership with Zend has altered the landscape for us in providing high-performance PHP on the Windows platform. In our own in-house stress testing using JMeter, we’ve maxed out 8 CPU cores at 100% executing thousands of PHP requests, and pages return quickly and without errors. This simply wasn’t possible before,” said John Chertudi, systems administrator at Rubicon International, an educational technology services firm. “We are able to design and support stable, high performing PHP applications on Windows thanks to the work done by Microsoft and Zend.”
In other news today
Zend Technologies also announced its commercially supported Zend Server for high-performance, reliable, and secure deployment of PHP-based Web applications. Please see separate press release at: http://www.zend.com/zendserverannounced
About Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP is used by more than 20 million Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 27,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
For more information, please visit http://www.zend.com or call +1 408-253-8800.
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