Simple Cloud API project offers portability hopes

September 24, 2009

The Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, or Simple Cloud API, is intended to let developers use common application services in the cloud and access value-added features from individual providers, said Zend, which is best known as a provider of tools for PHP application development. Developers would be able to build cloud applications accessing all major cloud platforms. IBM, Microsoft, Nirvanix, Rackspace, and GoGrid serve as co-founding contributors to the community project. Cloud leader Amazon Web Services is among the platforms supported, although Amazon is not now a participant in the effort.

Initially functioning with PHP, the API was designed for translation to any object-oriented language for the Web, Zend said. \"We have talked with people in Java, Python, and the Perl community and they\'re interested in collaborating,\" to support the API in these languages, Sinclair said....

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