What Does Cloud Foundry Mean?

Cloud Foundry is an open-source platform-as-a-service cloud computing system. It allows developers to create and host cloud applications. Cloud Foundry is written in Ruby, Go and Java. It is developed by Pivotal Software, a joint venture with VMware, EMC and General Electric. The project is governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

Techopedia Explains Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry implements cloud computing on a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model. It was originally developed by VMware before the maintenance of the code was transferred to Pivotal Software, a joint venture with EMC, VMware and General Electric.