Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany and the United Kingdom, is a free Web-based email (webmail), POP3 and IMAP e-mail service provided by Google. On April 1, 2004 the product began as an invitation-only beta release. On February 7, 2007 the beta version was opened to the general public. With an initial storage capacity of 1 GB, it drastically increased the standard for free storage.
Gmail currently offers over 6500 MB of free storage (increasing approximately 3.348 MB daily), with an additional 10 GB available for US$20 per year. It has a search-oriented interface and a 'conversation view' similar to an internet forum. Gmail is well-known for its use of the Ajax programming technique in its design, and has tens of millions of users.
If you are anything like me, you probably sign in to Gmail from multiple computers.In Blog Post, Hands-on
We are having congestions (sic) due to the anonymous registration of Gmail accounts, so we are shutting down some Gmail accounts, and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending you this email to so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account.In Read all posts by Elinor Mills in Webware
An example of such thin provisioning of storage would Google's (cloud based) e-mail service Gmail. While it gives the user a feeling of having unlimited storage, it allocates only as much as the user would actually need to meet his current e-mail storage demands.Rajesh Janey in NetApp Upbeat on Opportunities in Indian 'Storage Cloud' Space
