CloudFoundry PaaS

Many enterprises adopt a PaaS platform such as CloudFoundry to enable easier scaling and management of applications. CloudFoundry is an open source project originally started by VMWare and now owned by Pivotal which is a joint venture of VMWare, GE and EMC. There are quite a few distributions of the open source platform such as Stackato from HP, Pivotal for example. PaaS platform such as CF enables developers to focus on development and provides entire platform at click of a button. Developers can simply deploy their binary archives and CF takes care of provisioning everything required for application to run. CF also provides additional components such as database, caches as a service which makes it a true platform.

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