Microsoft Windows 7 with Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Thomas Maurer

Windows XP Mode

Great news for small businesses. The Windows 7 Pro and Ultimate Edition delivers a new Feature called Windows XP Mode or XPM. Basically its a Windows XP running in a Virtual Machine on Virtual PC. Which allows Users to run Windows XP Applications (or business applications which are not compatible with Windows Vista/7) on Windows 7.

Windows Team Blog: Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC:

Windows XP Mode is specifically designed to help small businesses move to Windows 7. Windows XP Mode provides you with the flexibility to run many older productivity applications on a Windows 7 based PC.

All you need to do is to install suitable applications directly in Windows XP Mode which is a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC. The applications will be published to the Windows 7 desktop and then you can run them directly from Windows 7.

Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC are best experienced on your new Windows 7 PC. We will be soon releasing the beta of Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate.

Drobo Pro

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Thomas Maurer

Drobo Pro

Last year I found a really cool product called drobo. Drobo was a “BeyondRAID storage device” which had four slots for harddrives, a Firewire 800 and an USB 2.0 port. Its was basically a pretty cool desktop storage device. You also could add a Network Interface called DroboShare.

A week ago Data Robotics released the new Drobo Pro, basiclly the same functions like Drobo, plus they added an onboard network interface and 8 slots for harddrives. So Drobo Pro supports up to 16TB of storage.

Texas Memory Systems RamSan-620

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Thomas Maurer

Texas Memory System RamSan-620

It could be the largest SLC SSD on the market, with 5TB of single level cell flash memory.

2U rack shelf

5TB SLC SSD Storage

handles 250,000 sustained I/Os per second

3GB of data a second

80 microsecond write latency

no price yet

(seen on engadget)

VMware vSphere 4

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Thomas Maurer

VMware vSphere 4

VMware announced today VMware vSphere 4 former known as VMware Infrastructure. The main new Feature is the Cloud Computing function. VMware Sphere 4 has also other new possibilities.

up to 8 virtual CPUs in a VM (instead of 4 CPU’s)

up to 10 virtual Network Adapters in a VM (instead of 4 Network Adapters)

up to 255GB RAM in a VM (instead of 64GB)

speed advantages

vSphere now supports: