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Skytap integrates Visual Studio into cloud-based infrastructure


By David Worthington
November 12, 2008 — 
Microsoft has partnered with a startup to integrate Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) to a virtual lab infrastructure that is hosted in the cloud.

At last month's Professional Developers Conference, Skytap announced that it had worked with Microsoft to integrate its Web-based Virtual Lab platform with Visual Studio.

Virtual Lab is pre-populated with a library of virtual machines. Users can customize the virtual machines to match their hardware environments, or they can upload their own virtual machines. It supports hypervisors from Citrix to VMware, and support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V is planned.

The integration creates a hybrid solution through which users can spin up the virtualized environments from within Visual Studio, said Steve Brodie, chief product and marketing officer at Skytap.

The integration was made possible through Skytap’s API, which was published in September. At present, it will only work with TFS 2008, Brodie noted.

Moving software into the cloud for testing makes it easier to access externally because users do not have to circumnavigate corporate firewalls, Brodie said.

For instance, users might set up BizTalk or SQL Server in Virtual Lab in lieu of using their own corporate servers. Pricing is determined on a metered basis by CPU usage and storage consumed, with subscription plans available.

An upcoming Lab Management edition of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 will also use virtualization, but virtual environments will only be exposed over Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol and not as services outside of the firewall.


Related Search Term(s): cloud computing, testing, virtualization, Visual Studio, Microsoft, Skytap


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