Reviews Round-Up: Hyper-V and Android-based netbooks

This week we turn our attention to OCR software, the latest Dell PowerEdge Server, Microsoft's Hyper-V and the Acer Aspire One D250. We also try and explain what a USB Crash Cart is and why this tech could help your business.

By Maggie Holland

Published 13 November 2009 In News

Dell PowerEdge R510

There's a gap in the rack server market and Dell has done its best to fill it. Our reviewer fell a bit in love with the Dell PowerEdge E510 as it offers "plenty of remote management options and low power consumption" although things would be even better with a higher drive bay count.

Abbyy Finereader 10

OCR software will never be sexy, but it can be really beneficial to businesses. This versatile application can create PDF, Word, Excel and HTML documents but it's handling of page layouts isn't mind blowing.

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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

The rest of the virtualisation pack are feeling the heat as Microsoft piles on the pressure. And the price is equally competitive too, as our reviewer discovered.

Startech KVM Console USB Crash Cart Adapter

A solution that lets you plug a keyboard, monitor and mouse into a server. But does this handy KVM really live up to its claims? We gave it 4/6 so it can't be all bad.

Acer Aspire One D250

The Acer Aspire One is a Google Android-flavoured netbook. We liked it back in the summer of 2008 but are we so enamoured now?

Maggie has been a journalist since 1999, starting her career as an editorial assistant on then-weekly magazine Computing, before working her way up to senior reporter level. In 2006, just weeks before ITPro was launched, Maggie joined Dennis Publishing as a reporter. Having worked her way up to editor of ITPro, she was appointed group editor of CloudPro and ITPro in April 2012. She became the editorial director and took responsibility for ChannelPro, in 2016.

Her areas of particular interest, aside from cloud, include management and C-level issues, the business value of technology, green and environmental issues and careers to name but a few.