The first commercial TFS hosting service is live!
Man what a couple of weeks. First Orcas Beta 2, then VSTS Web Access, now a hosting service and later this week the Rosario August CTP... (and there's more to come I can't talk about yet and probably some stuff I have forgotten to mention). This confluence of things wasn't exactly by design but it sure is exciting.
Readify (a partner of ours in Australia) announced a new commercial hosting service called TFS Now. This is an exciting development for VSTS. There is a small and growing segment of customers who don't want to host their own services and would prefer someone else do it for them. The primary advantages I hear people looking for:
- Quick start up time and easy capacity management as needs grow
- Reduced operational costs with backups, reliability and disaster recovery handled
- Easy access from anywhere on the globe without needing lots of infrastructure.
To keep track of the latest developments on TFS Now, watch this blog feed.
I hope you like it. Keep the feedback flowing.
Brian
