Microsoft Cuts CodePlex Hardware by 55 Percent; Capacity Doubles, TCO Drops by 88 Percent

IT executives are being asked to cut the costs of their companies' computing systems - without affecting performance, availability, capacity, or other key metrics. Sounds impossible, but Microsoft has found a way to do just that for its popular CodePlex open-source development project hosting environment, by updating the architecture with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010, a part of the Visual Studio 2010 family of products. The use of the software enabled a 55 percent reduction in hardware and its associated costs, a performance increase of up to 95 percent in some operations, and 100 percent uptime. The slimmed-down architecture supports twice as many projects as before.