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Three Cloud Foundry Stories

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October 07, 2025

Three Cloud Foundry Stories

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October 07, 2025
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  1. 3 PaaS IaaS 2019? I 2007? I Today? I CaaS*

    PaaS Platform * Code word for “Kubernetes.”
  2. 4 of enterprise apps run on private cloud 50% Source:

    “Platform Engineering for Private Cloud,” Coté, NDC Oslo 2025.
  3. 5 Source: IDC White Paper, sponsored by Broadcom, On-Premises AI

    Infrastructure Balances Innovation and Security, doc #US52747024 December, 2024. Conducted July, 2024, n=411.
  4. 6 Source: AI generated Trump Cloud; “The Cloud Man,” found

    on Whoopah, does not appear to ben actual Rene Magritte painting. 🇺🇸 🇪🇺
  5. 7 PaaS IaaS 2019? I 2007? I Today? I CaaS*

    PaaS Platform * Code word for “Kubernetes.”
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  8. 13 Case Study Runbook* - Goal - the product is

    useful, widely used, & worth considering. - Who - why they are normal, not a one-off weirdo, “just like us.” - Speeds & feeds – magnitude, impressive performance. - Business outcomes – why/how it helps the organizations, usually apps. - Generalization - “this is just one story of 1,000’s.” - Hook – a story or astounding statement, something memorable. - CTA– try it, move to the next stage of persuasion, etc.* * Focused on users & buyers, also useful for influencers, investors, employees, & internecine corporate cultures.
  9. 15 One Bank’s Platform, using Cloud Foundry since 2018 Cloud

    Foundry Supports: - 6,400+ developers. - 300+ unique applications. - 50,000 containers. - 2 sites, 4 foundations. - 1,000 Ais month/month Business Uses: - Retail banking. - Payments. - Open Banking. - GenAI. - More… 🛠 🏦 Most figures from August, 2024. Uses as of September, 2025.
  10. 16 Outcomes - Trusted to deploy during working hours, heightened

    awareness periods. - 99% faster setup - completely self-service developer onboarding. - 75% reduction in time spent patching. - ~25% more time coding, over 6,400+ developers. - Happy developers, happy apps. 👍 As of September, 2025.
  11. 18 using Cloud Foundry since 2017 Cloud Foundry Supports: -

    9,500 application instances. - 300 developer teams. - Migrated to OSS 4 years ago. Business Uses: - All customer facing retail banking. - Payments. - Internal apps. 🛠 🏦 Sources: Rabobank attendees, CF Day EU 2025, October 7th, 2025.
  12. 19 Outcomes - Team of 4 platform engineers. - €60/app/month

    HA apps. - Weekly repaves. - Runs across AWS and Azure. - Happy developers, happy apps, happy customers. - Zero outages blamed on CF in past year. 👍 Sources: Rabobank attendees, CF Day EU 2025, October 7th, 2025.
  13. 21 Schwab, using Cloud Foundry since 2014 Cloud Foundry Supports:

    - 120,000 application instances. - 28,000 production cf pushes per month (68k prod + dev) Business Uses: - Retail trading. - Broker-dealer operations - Stock-plan (RSU) services. - Wealth management. 🛠 🏦 Sources: “Enterprise Grade Platform Engineering at Charles Schwab," Coté, September, 2024, based on Schwab's Explore 2024 panel [TANP2089LV].
  14. 22 Outcomes - No-fee trading enabled by keeping operating costs

    low - Managing hundreds of thousands of app instances with 3-person team - Handles daily load, “market-storms.” Easier audits and governance 👍 First 15 minutes of market open Sources: “Enterprise Grade Platform Engineering at Charles Schwab," Coté, September, 2024, based on Schwab's Explore 2024 panel [TANP2089LV].
  15. 25 DATEV, Cloud Foundry Supports: - 17,000 application instances. -

    30,000 containzerized workloads - 350 teams using Cloud Foundry - 50 teams using Kubernetes Business Uses: - Tax accounting - Audit - Office management 🛠 🏦 Sources: Jürgen Sußner, October, 2025; DATEV case study and video;
  16. 26 Outcomes - Modernization and standardization. - More appdev, less

    opsdev. - Patching in 2 to 3 days. - Integrate with mainframes. 👍 Sources: conversations with Jürgen Sußner, DATEV, October, 2025; DATEV case study and video.
  17. 27 More - Mercedes-Benz: “300 application projects, 3,000 application instances,

    and around 1,500 platforms services” (2023). - JPMorgan Chase: 1,522+ apps, 15,000 deploys a day (2022). - SB Payment Service: 5 minute app releases (since 2019). - Comcast: long-time Cloud Foundry user. - Several militaries and security forces. Sources: Tanzu case studies and videos, sources linked; possible other users: TheirStack, retrieved September 30th, 2025. CF Summit EU 2025.
  18. 28 CTA - If you’re a Cloud Foundry user, tell

    your story. - If you’re a Cloud Foundry seller, get your customers to tell their story. - Case studies of major users. - Tell me the stories, and I’ll tell them.
  19. 30 Right now - Cloud Foundry Weekly. - cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent,

    2 Feb 2026 – CFP closes 10 Oct 2025. - KubeCon EU, AMS, March, 2026 - CFP closes 12 Oct 2025. - Others: SREDay, DevOpsDays, Container Days, NDC, VMUG, Explore. - The New Stack articles. - Wherever you can click “publish.”