Hardware manufacturer HP has released the source code for its Advanced File System (AdvFS), which it uses for the Tru64 Unix OS under the GPL, along with a Linux reference implementation.

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Intel's 10GBit Ethernet adapters for servers can now run the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet connections.

Linux distributor Red Hat has launched a public beta co-marketing initiative of its enterprise platform as a software service in cooperation with Amazon.

IBM has published plans for its own network service for IT infrastructures under the "Blue Cloud" heading.

Iomega recently launched a new range of NAS servers in rack and desktop formats. The servers offer capacities of between 640GB and 3TB.

Sun Microsystems is acquiring a majority shareholding in Cluster File Systems and thus the rights to the Lustre cluster filesystem.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is investing in a Linux super computer by SGI. The computer's 2048 CPU cores and 4TBytes RAM will run under a single Linux instance.