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Latest featured content about Cloud Foundry

Welcome to the Future, Your PaaS has Arrived

Topics
Cloud Foundry,
VMWare,
PaaS,
Cloud Computing,
Companies

This Article by Lucas and Adron dives into NoOps, DevOps, and how they relate to PaaS. Then with a short context description of what led to this technology it takes a look at the premier open source solution Cloud Foundry - what makes it tick, the architecture, and a simple deployment of an application. Along the way it also steps into the core concepts behind Platform as a Service.

News about Cloud Foundry

VMware's vFabric Suite Gains Automated Deployment and PostgreSQL Support

Topics
Virtualization,
Java,
VMWare vFabric SQLFire,
Cloud Foundry,
Languages,
IaaS,
VMWare,
Infrastructure,
Persistence,
Relational Databases,
Companies,
Database,
vFabric,
Programming,
Cloud Computing

VMware has today announced VMware vFabric Suite 5.1, adding automated deployment, enterprise open source support, and PostgreSQL capabilities, as well as an expansion to the SQLFire in-memory database.

SpringSource Releases Version 1.0 Of Cloud Foundry Eclipse Plugin

Topics
Java,
Cloud Foundry,
SpringSource,
Languages,
VMWare,
Open Source,
PaaS,
Cloud Computing,
Programming,
Companies

SpringSource releases version 1.0 of CloudFoundry integration for Eclipse, allowing developers to manage CloudFoundry applications directly from the IDE. The plugin allows for managing and deployment of Cloud Foundry instances, binding of supported services such as database and viewing for remote files.

Cloud Foundry Celebrates First Anniversary By Highlighting Its Community

Topics
Cloud Foundry,
Devops,
VMWare,
PaaS,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing,
Companies

At an VMware-hosted event in Palo Alto, the Cloud Foundry team summarized their first year as an open source, multi-language Platform as a Service (PaaS). VMware CTO Steve Herrod pointed to the project’s strong developer adoption and thriving ecosystem as proof that this platform has staying power.

.NET Framework Support for Cloud Foundry Through Open Source Contribution From Tier 3

Topics
MongoDB,
.NET Framework 4.0,
Distributed Document Oriented Database,
Cloud Foundry,
.NET Framework,
SOA,
.NET,
VMWare,
NoSQL,
PaaS,
Cloud Computing,
Database,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
Companies,
Programming,
Redis

Cloud service provider Tier 3 has released Iron Foundry, a .NET-friendly fork of VMware’s Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service. Iron Foundry gives the sizeable number of .NET developers an open source alternative to Windows Azure and lets them participate in the increasingly popular Cloud Foundry ecosystem.

Articles about Cloud Foundry

SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer Discusses the Impact of the Cloud on Enterprise IT

Topics
Ruby,
Cloud Foundry,
Java,
Dynamic Languages,
Languages,
PaaS,
VMWare,
Companies,
Cloud Computing,
Programming,
Mobile

This article is a transcript of an interview with SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer, recorded at the inaugural What's Next Conference in Paris in May. Colyer discusses the impact of mobile devices, HTML 5 and cloud-computing on enterprise IT generally, and SpringSource's Cloud Foundary product.

Presentations about Cloud Foundry

Java in the Cloud - PaaS Platform in Comparison

Topics
GOTO 2011,
Java,
Cloud Foundry,
Google AppEngine,
Languages,
VMWare,
IaaS,
PaaS,
GOTO Conference,
Google,
Programming,
Cloud Computing,
Conferences,
Companies,
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

Eberhard Wolff introduces Cloud Computing, IaaS/PaaS, comparing the Java support provided by Google GAE, Amazon Beanstalk, VMware Cloud Foundry, and Cloud Bees.

Cloud Foundry Boot Camp

Topics
SpringOne 2GX 2011,
SpringOne,
Conferences,
Spring,
Virtualization,
Cloud Foundry,
SpringSource,
Dependency Injection,
Java,
Design Pattern,
VMWare,
IaaS,
Languages,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing,
Companies,
Patterns,
Design,
Object Oriented Design,
Programming

Dave McCrory explains how Cloud Foundry works, demoing setting up and running an application on it and Micro Cloud Foundry, and using the services available in VMware’s cloud.

Cloud Foundry: Inside the Machine

Topics
SpringOne 2GX 2011,
SpringOne,
Conferences,
Spring,
Messaging,
Dependency Injection,
Web Services,
Cloud Foundry,
SpringSource,
Java,
VMWare,
PaaS,
Design Pattern,
Languages,
SOA,
Enterprise Architecture,
Companies,
Cloud Computing,
SpringSource Application Platform,
Patterns,
Object Oriented Design,
Design,
Programming,
Architecture

Derek Collison presents Cloud Foundry’s architecture with details on the Cloud Controller, the Service Provisioning Agent, the Droplet Execution Agent, and the Messaging System.

Interviews about Cloud Foundry

What’s Next for jclouds?

Topics
EC2,
Scala,
Python,
Cassandra,
JSON,
Amazon Web Services,
Windows Azure,
Java,
Virtualization,
Dynamic Languages,
Cloud Foundry,
Markup Languages,
JVM Languages,
Functional Programming,
MySQL,
BigTable,
Azure,
Amazon,
Clojure,
Strange Loop 2010,
Relational Databases,
Languages,
NoSQL,
IaaS,
LISP,
Strange Loop,
Operations,
VMWare,
PaaS,
Infrastructure,
.NET,
Cloud Computing,
Programming,
Companies,
XML,
S3,
Conferences,
Database,
Hadoop,
vCloud,
Twitter,
GigaSpaces

Adrian Cole discusses his jclouds project, which is an open source library that helps Java developers get started in the cloud and reuse their Java development skills. Cole also talks about some of the challenges of creating a cloud agnostic library, such as the use of different hypervisors and that various cloud implementations are written in different languages, such as VB, Python, Ruby, etc.

Chris Richardson discusses Cloud Foundry and Cloud Computing

Topics
SpringOne,
Virtual Machines,
EC2,
Spring,
Conferences,
Runtimes,
Amazon Web Services,
Virtualization,
Java,
Amazon,
SpringSource,
Cloud Foundry,
Dependency Injection,
Design Pattern,
Infrastructure,
PaaS,
IaaS,
VMWare,
Operations,
Languages,
Design,
Cloud Computing,
vSphere,
Patterns,
Programming,
SpringSource dm Server,
Object Oriented Design,
tc Server,
SpringOne 2009,
vCloud,
Companies,
Hyperic HQ

Chris Richardson discusses the evolving cloud computing landscape, cloud computing tools, differences between local machines and cloud-based virtual machines, Cloud Foundry offerings, deploying a Java application to Cloud Foundry, Cloud Foundry vs other cloud offerings, future Cloud Foundry developments, and the future of enterprise Java development.