VMware brings the Cloud Foundry™ Open Tour 2012 to India
Industry’s leading Open Platform as a Service presents exciting opportunities for Indian developers
India, Bangalore - August 12, 2012: VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced its Could Foundry™ Open Tour in India. The Cloud Foundry Open Tour is a Developer Day for enterprise and web developers to learn about Open Source Platform-as-a-Service in the cloud. The event will be held on September 7, 2012 in Bangalore and on September 10, 2012 in Pune.
With the Cloud Foundry Open Tour, VMware provides a forum for developers across the country to interact and learn from expert technologists and other cutting edge developers behind the leading open source cloud platform for enterprise applications. The event will feature in-depth technical sessions, followed by a coding competition and Code Lab.
Launched by VMware in April 2011, with source code available under the Apache 2.0 license, Cloud Foundry is a cloud-era application platform built to simplify and speed the development, deployment and operation of applications.
By offering a simplified approach that embraces the diversity and speed of modern application development, Cloud Foundry removes complexity at almost every stage of the development process and enables developers to take advantage of innovation that is occurring across the industry.
The Cloud Foundry platform presents immense opportunities for India’s growing developer community that is expected to grow to more than 3.5 million professional software developers by 2015.
Additional Resources
- Cloud Foundry Open Tour: http://opentour.cloudfoundry.com/india/2012
- Visit the new cloudfoundry.org and access the source code
- Watch a video that shows multi-cloud in action
- Follow @cloudfoundry and @VMware on Twitter (hashtag: #cfoundry)
- To get started with Cloud Foundry, please visit http://www.cloudfoundry.com/
About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at
www.vmware.com/in.
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