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June 04, 2013

IBM Licenses Zend Server Technology for SmartCloud

On the heels of the annoucement that it will acquire cloud infrastructure company SoftLayer (News - Alert) Technologies, IBM has teamed up with application platform provider Zend to make enterprise-grade PHP support a service within IBM SmartCloud.

The IBM (News - Alert) SmartCloud Application Service is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that provides a suite of cloud-based development tools, workload patterns, middleware and databases. Businesses can buy IBM’s PaaS to support both their Java and PHP based applications.  

The PHP capabilities on IBM SmartCloud will be provided via a built-in PHP pattern from Zend, which is seeing an increased demand for additional PaaS options, according to Zend CEO Andi Gutmans.

“Zend has had considerable demand from our enterprise clients for additional PaaS options that provide a highly scalable, automated, enterprise-class cloud-based environment for their apps,” Gutmans said in a statement.

The IBM Zend Server V6 Application Pattern for PHP will be available from IBM and provides all of the capabilities of Zend Server 6, which is the primary PHP application platform for deploying, running and managing mobile and web apps. This template will be fully backed by the benefits of IBM technical support, Gutmans added.

“ Zend has a longstanding collaborative relationship with IBM, dating back to our original technical collaboration on the integration of PHP with IBM DB2 database software, and we enjoy strong existing partnerships around the IBM i platform, IBM SmartCloud and IBM PureSystems. I couldn't be more pleased to see the continued expansion of our partnership,” he said.

IBM SmartCloud Application Services provide a secure, automated, cloud-based environment designed to support the lifecycle of accelerated application development, deployment and delivery. The IBM Zend Server Application Pattern for PHP equips teams with the software infrastructure to support rapid releases of PHP applications, and provides those apps with a high level of reliability, performance and security.

In related news, on June 4 IBM announced it will acquire Dallas-based cloud infrastructure company SoftLayer Technologies.

Under the terms of the deal, IBM is creating a new cloud services division within its Global Services group to house SoftLayer as a stand-alone company and combine it with other cloud computing services. Following the close of the acquisition of SoftLayer, which is expected in the third quarter, the new division will combine SoftLayer with IBM SmartCloud into a global platform.




Edited by Blaise McNamee
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