Working on a new USB device. basically instead of a usb memory card reader/writer, it’s a usb RAM reader/writer. Why on earth would you want this? Well, basically for performance through  expanding your system’s available memory either by virtual memory or Vista/Windows7’s readyboost.

This is specifically marketed towards VMWare users who require ALOT of ram. Rather than incurring high disk IO in the guest operating system, some random writes can be offset to RAM thus resulting in a faster responding Virtual Machine while minimizing disk I/O.

Exchange Server is one such example. There’s a great amount of disk I/O and on top of that, Exchange is a notorious memory hog.

Alternatively, one may use existing usb flash drives. however the lifespan on writes on flash ram is alot shorter forcing one to replace flash sticks as often as one would replace a flashlight battery.

If this interests you. I am taking orders now. Please contact me directly.

The switch from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 wasn’t compelling. Complete re-write to only 64bit architecture only, and higher system requirements particularly in the memory. Hopefully Exchange 2010 will offer smaller footprint and performance improvements to warrant an upgrade. One of the first things I will do is to test if Exchange 2010 performs well within VMware or Virtual Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/trial-software.aspx