Chris Mellor

Google Inc.'s free e-mail service, Gmail, has received a huge amount of interest in the recent weeks thanks mostly to its claim that it will offer 1GB of storage to each user.

Dell Inc. has joined IBM Corp., NEC Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. to put its faith in InfiniBand and give the high-speed technology a kiss of life after it nearly drowned in 2002.

Red Hat Inc. is adding some enterprise storage capabilities to its Linux. With Novell Inc. buying SuSE AG, enterprise Linux looks set to become a stronger offering.

Hitachi Data Systems Corp. has partnered with McData Corp. to offer small-and medium-sized enterprises a lower cost alternative for FC SANs, the Hitachi TrueNorth iSCSI SAN Solution. SMEs cannot afford FC SANs. The HDS iSCSI SAN includes the Hitachi Thunder 9570V modular storage system, the McData Eclipse 1620 SAN internetworking switch, and enablement services.