[ILUG-BOM] Want to know how Gmail works - google + email ?

[Poornima Marattil]

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.

[...]

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.

[...]

http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1356&Page=1&pagePos=8

regards,
Poornima Marattil