Comcast Joins Cloud Foundry Foundation

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and FRANKFURT, GERMANY–(Marketwired – September 26, 2016) – Comcast today announced it has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation, home of the industry-standard multi-cloud platform, as a Silver member. Comcast joins GE, HPE, IBM, Pivotal, SAP, Verizon and more than 60 other technology innovators as a Foundation member. Through its membership, Comcast will be able to contribute ideas to the project while accelerating its own innovation by taking advantage of Cloud Foundry’s continuous delivery approach to developing cloud-native software.

“We’re looking forward to collaborating with Cloud Foundry’s robust, global open source community through our participation in the Cloud Foundry Foundation,” said Greg Otto, Executive Director Cloud Services, Comcast Cable. “Cloud Foundry delivers a consistent multi-cloud experience for our developers. This enables our product teams to focus on innovating new customer experiences.”

Cloud Foundry is collectively developed by Cisco, EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Pivotal, SAP, VMware, and leaders in manufacturing, telecommunications and financial services. Only Cloud Foundry delivers the velocity needed to continuously deliver apps at the speed of business. Cloud Foundry’s container-based architecture runs apps in any language on your choice of cloud — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Platform (GCP), OpenStack, VMware vSphere, SoftLayer and more. With a robust services ecosystem and simple integration with existing technologies, Cloud Foundry is the modern standard for mission critical apps for global organizations.

“Comcast is at the forefront of media and technology. We’re thrilled that they’re using Cloud Foundry as a tool to help provide exciting new services to their customers and partners more quickly via our certified multi-cloud platform,” said Sam Ramji, CEO, Cloud Foundry Foundation. “Cloud Foundry provides a multi-cloud platform that enables rapid application delivery and innovation.”

About Comcast Cable

Comcast Cable is one of the nation’s largest video, high-speed Internet and phone providers to residential customers under the XFINITY brand and also provides these services to businesses. Comcast has invested in technology to build an advanced network that delivers among the fastest broadband speeds, and brings customers personalized video, communications and home management offerings. Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is a global media and technology company. Visit www.comcastcorporation.com for more information.

About Cloud Foundry Foundation

The Cloud Foundry Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization formed to sustain the development, promotion and adoption of Cloud Foundry as the industry standard multi-cloud platform. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications. Cloud Foundry is an Apache 2.0 licensed project available on Github: https://github.com/cloudfoundry. To learn more, visit:http://www.cloudfoundry.org.

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