VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, has announced its Could Foundry Open Tour in India. The Cloud Foundry Open Tour is a Developer Day for enterprise and web developers to learn about Open Source Platform-as-a-Service in the cloud. The event will be held on September 7, 2012 in Bangalore and on September 10, 2012 in Pune.

With the Cloud Foundry Open Tour, VMware provides a forum for developers across the country to interact and learn from expert technologists and other cutting edge developers behind the leading open source cloud platform for enterprise applications. The event will feature in-depth technical sessions, followed by a coding competition and Code Lab.

Launched by VMware in April 2011, with source code available under the Apache 2.0 license, Cloud Foundry is a cloud-era application platform built to simplify and speed the development, deployment and operation of applications.

By offering a simplified approach that embraces the diversity and speed of modern application development, Cloud Foundry removes complexity at almost every stage of the development process and enables developers to take advantage of innovation that is occurring across the industry.

The Cloud Foundry platform presents immense opportunities for India’s growing developer community that is expected to grow to more than 3.5 million professional software developers by 2015.