Cloud Foundry takes first steps into Azure

The article image is for Pivotal CF, which is the commercial derivative of cloud foundry that Pivotal makes. It is not open source.

Cloud foundry has been open source since the start, which is now a bunch of years ago. The work Microsoft have done is on the deployment side of things, the bosh tool. This means that it can be easily (<cough>) deployed to azure using the standard tooling for cloud foundry.

Private, public, hybrid - it’s clear that Nadella is intent on making Microsoft’s Azure a strong cloud competitor. Nadella sees the writing on the wall regarding the rise of cloud computing, and he’s intent on making Microsoft a serious player in that future.

Forrester Research has estimated the public cloud market to reach $191 billion by 2020, a significant climb from 2013’s total of $58 billion. Forrester asserts that cloud applications will lead this growth, achieving approximately $133 billion in revenue by 2020.

Those are the numbers that Nadella sees, and he wants Microsoft’s Azure to be a part of that cloud computing future. So this support for Cloud Foundry for Azure isn’t that surprising given the overall cloud computing landscape.

The recent KMPG Cloud Survey Report studied how companies are using the cloud now and the benefits and concerns CIOs have regarding cloud computing: http://bit.ly/1L2Zg7d

Jeff Rutherford commenting on behalf of IDG and KPMG