I remember the great excitement of buying a 1 GB disk drive. People asking “how will you ever use all that space?”. Now we’re using 1 TB disk drives at work! (Haven’t got one in my machine yet, but soon I hope.)

and eating.
Had the Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 ship party today. Driving carts on the Auckland Luge and drinking, the perfect combination Responsibly we did the driving before the drinking. We had a nice meal at the Long Bay Restaurant too.

The photo is thanks to Michael. As you can see I was having a great time. Pity you can’t see have fast I was going!

We released Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 today.

New features include:

• WinPE is now included – and is the default pre-OS
• DeployAnywhere for hardware independent restore
• Hot image creation
• Secure decommissioning
• VMDK support – create and restore
• Native Linux versions of the tools
• Linux pre-OS included as an alternative to WinPE and DOS
• PQi and V2i support
• Re-orderable task actions
• Better support for running scripts
• Better support for Sysprep

This presentation describes the new features in more detail.

It will be interesting to see how GSS2.5 is received, especially for me the new Linux tools. I see Microsoft recently added Linux support to their MOMS product as well.

The air conditioning system at work started belching out smoke resulting in a full fire alert.

Ghost stands for General Hardware Oriented System Transfer. (Obviously a backronym.)