What is Cloud Foundry and its key benefits?

Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud computing platform that makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications, providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. It is an open source project and is available through a variety of private cloud distributions and public cloud instances.

For companies, this means accelerated development and deployment of applications. The emphasis is on speed, simplicity, flexibility, and control.