subject: The Origin Of Zend Technologies With A Focus On Its Specialization! [print this page] With headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S., Zend Technologies Ltd. is a world wide web infrastructure software company. Zend is a popular IT corporation that has offices in France, Italy and Germany. With its technology center in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel, the company focuses on the development, deployment and management of PHP-based web applications, including Zend Studio.
Zend received official recognition as a company in 1999 when it received initial funding from Israeli venture capital funds. In a few years since its inception, the company earned a reputed name in the industry. It proved its worth by winning the Best Startup Software Company Award at the Israeli Venture Association Annual Hi Tech Conference in Tel Aviv.
Products by Zend
Zend offers a wide range of products. Let's know about these one by one:
Zend Server
Zend Server is a web application server that facilitates the operations and management of PHP applications. The features of Zend Server include built-in application monitoring, application problem diagnostics, caching and optimization capabilities and a Web-based administrator console.
Zend Server Community Edition
Zend's Server Community Edition is free, complete PHP stack useful for designing PHP applications. It is also helpful for operating non-critical applications in production. An easy to install software, the edition supports Linux, Windows, iSeries i5/OS, and Mac OS X. The server is also periodically updated by Zend.
Zend Platform
This product runs on a web server and monitors PHP applications for identifying potential threats. Zend Platform also features a PHP accelerator, a content caching solution, session clustering and numerous management tools. When used in combination with Zend Studio, Zend Platform can be used for remote debugging and profiling of PHP applications in their home server environment.
Zend Studio
This product is Zend's commercial, proprietary integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP.
Zend Guard
Zend Guard is another product from Zend that helps to prevent from peeping into PHP scripts.
Career Standpoint with Zend
The company also offers Zend PHP certification to professionals interested in gaining specializations in this domain. The PHP Certification Test certifies people passing the exam as Zend Certified Engineers (ZCE), which means that the person is capable of developing PHP web applications.
Zend also assists professionals to get placed in the industry by listing their names in its directory and Yellow Pages. The company also allows Zend Certified Engineers (ZCEs) to place a ZCE logo on their personal web site/resume.
