VMware, best known for virtualisation software, has launched Cloud Foundry, a Plaform-as-a-Service (PaaS) supporting a number of frameworks, languages, services and programming models.
As with other PaaS offerings the aim of Cloud Foundry is to minimise deployment and configuration.
Currently supported frameworks are:
- Spring
- Grails
- Node.js
- Ruby on Rails
- Sinatra
Databases supported are:
- MySQL
- Redis
- MongoDB
Cloud Foundry is open source, allowing deployment on Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers such as Amazon EC2.
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