Global Organizations Gather to Discuss IoT and Multi-Cloud Strategies at Cloud Foundry Summit, Amid Strong Community Growth

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and FRANKFURT, GERMANY--(Marketwired - September 26, 2016) - Cloud Foundry Foundation, home of the industry-standard multi-cloud platform, today kicked off the sold-out Cloud Foundry Summit Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, bringing together the world's largest organizations to discuss new ways to leverage multi-cloud and IoT strategies to accelerate business growth and innovation.

More than 700 businesses, developers and vendors from across Europe will share best practices and hear senior executives from leading organizations like Allianz, Bosch, Fidelity, Siemens, Volkswagen, Rakuten and the Dutch Government describe how Cloud Foundry has helped them build and deploy robust, resilient and flexible cloud native applications across multiple cloud platforms.

"It is thrilling to see Cloud Foundry at the heart of IoT strategies from industry leaders such as Allianz, Bosch, and Volkswagen," said Sam Ramji, CEO, Cloud Foundry Foundation. "Cloud Foundry's architecture is perfectly suited for IoT development in a continuous delivery environment. Cloud Foundry Summit attendees will be able to see firsthand how others are leveraging multi-cloud models to deliver apps faster than ever before."

Participants are also getting a first look at news announced by Cloud Foundry members at Summit including:

• SAP has opened the first Dojo in Germany in Walldorf
• Stark and Wayne has opened a new European office and hired software and Cloud Foundry veteran, Ferran Rodenas
• Iron.io now supports Diego for workloads on Cloud Foundry -- bringing a multi-cloud, serverless experience to enterprises
• anynines' PaaS now supports multi-region -- allowing users to run applications in different regions with or without Amazon Web Services

"As a platinum member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, we are excited about the opening of our new Dojo lab at the SAP headquarters in Walldorf, which marks another important milestone in our ongoing work with the community," said Björn Goerke, executive vice president and corporate officer, SAP Product & Innovation Technology, SAP SE. "The Dojo lab is the first to open in Germany and will help provide an innovative development center for the Cloud Foundry community in Europe. Additionally, the certification of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform shows our ongoing commitment to delivering an open public cloud platform for customers and partners to run their business in the cloud."