At the ZendCon conference today in Santa Clara, California, Zend released the Zend Studio 8.0 IDE and the Zend Framework 1.11 PHP application framework. Both releases include new cloud-focused features and are part of a new PHP Cloud Application Platform ecosystem that Zend is now building. Sean Michael Kerner provides all the details in his Datamation report Zend Updates PHP IDE, Framework for the Cloud. He writes:
Multiple Zend tools will be part of the upcoming Zend PHP Cloud Platform, which is intended to help enable a full application development and production lifecycle for cloud deployments.