TFS or Team Foundation Service?

TFS with on clickIs it possible?

Going to the cloud

Team Foundation Service is RTM http://tfs.visualstudio.com

Costs for small teams TFS Express is free for team up to 5 users It does not means it comes absolutely at no cost Hardware Power supply Mainteniance Backup / Restore High Availability

The real cost of a software is not only the «licensing» one

Costs for small teams

Safety of data

• TFS holds everything about your project

• Data needs to be safe

• Backup mainteniance

• Scheduled restore verification

and planning for disaster

recovery

Costs for small teams

High availability

• Your server should be always on line

• Mimimize scheduled offline time

• Accessible from everywhere

• Mimize time to come online again after a failure

Costs for small teams

Upgrade

• TFS is a product that evolves

• Manage updates

• Minimize downtimes during

update

• Plan and rollout update

carefully

Costs for small teams

Operational cost

• Hardware

• Power supply

• Support hardware (UPS,

Cooler)

• Upgrade hardware

• Hardware disaster recovery

Cost is not zero

Disaster recovery

Keep skills updated

Maintenance

People training

There is an alternative

http://tfs.visualstudio.com

• Team Foundation Service is RTM

• It is free for team up to 5 users

• It contains more features than TFS Express

• One minute and you are ready at really no cost

TFS expressVS

Team Foundatoin Service

Pro of Team Foundation Service

Plus you get with TFS Service

• Zero maintenance cost

• Free and constant upgrades

• Accessible from everywhere

• High availability and backup

• One minute activation

Cons of Team Foundation Service

Things not in TFS Service

• No process template customization

• Still no support integration with other systems (Es Sharepoint)

• Only LiveID support

• Limited reporting

Mixed configuration

Best of both

• Tfs Proxy on premise

• Tfs Build machines on premise

• Integration platform to have a copy on-premise

The big advantage

Reliability

• Reliability, always on, Microsoft experience in managing the service

• Safeness of the data, automatic upgrade to new versions without discontinuities

• Accessible from everywhere with secure protocol (https)

TFS is a complete ALM Solution

Source control

Work Item Tracking

Build Machine

Testing Tools

Be ready to choose

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