12 Apr
2004
12 Apr
'04
7:36 a.m.
hi all, Google's free e-mail service, Gmail, has received a huge amount of interest in the past week thanks mostly to its claim that it will offer 1GB of storage to each user.
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Once again, there will not be any SANs involved, no Fibre Channel, no Shark or Symmetrix arrays, just commodity IDE drives in commodity X86 servers running Red Hat Linux. Scaling out is straightforward with new server/drive combos being added in to a 10/1200Mbit/s Ethernet network infrastructure.
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http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1356&Page=1&...
regards, Poornima Marattil