Gartner: One Company Cuts Lotus Domino Costs by $11 Million Over Two Years

January 26 2010

That's a pretty impressive headline....

As part of an IT cost-cutting exercise, a large multinational firm reduced its IBM Lotus Notes/Domino operating costs by more than $11 million over two years ($2.5 million for 2009, $8.6 million for 2010). It achieved this mainly through significant reductions in storage costs.
The company profiled had 97,000 mailboxes and 250 Domino servers when they started the exercise.  Through application rationalization, implementation of DAOS, archiving, consolidation, and other steps, they were able to reduce a significant portion of their operating costs.

Gartner report ID:G00171933, author is Matt Cain.

Link: Gartner: One Company Cuts Lotus Domino Costs by $11 Million Over Two Years > (Subscription required or for sale for $95)

Ed Brill | Chicago, IL USA Category:  Notes and Domino 8.5  Add/View Comments [5]

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  1. 1  Bill Buchan http://www.hadsl.com | 1/26/2010 1:10:45 PM

    And by using FirM, they can cut their administration costs by 50% too.

    ---* Bill

  1. 2  Lisa Duke http://www.simplified-tech.com | 1/26/2010 5:41:54 PM

    That's excellent, Ed! I can definitely say we see the same sort of savings in mid-market as well, although not on the same scale of course.

    We have clients cutting the size of their storage needs by around half, which saves them on hardware and power. There's definitely a "green" angle to this as well.

    Make sure the team that worked on DAOS get a round of applause from us.

  1. 3  Gary Sweeting  | 1/26/2010 9:15:32 PM

    @2 Note that only about 10% of the savings are expected to come from DAOS when they deploy 8.5. Major cost savings are being achieved through (1) Elimination of thousands of inactive user licenses, e-mail accounts and unused applications. E.g., over half (40TB) application storage removed. (2) Reduction of mailbox sizes - introducing a 500MB mailbox cap and attachment stripping – with users encouraged to save messages to ... workspaces such as eRoom & SharePoint. (3) Introduction of an archive service capable of using lower-cost storage.

  1. 4  Eric Mack http://www.EricMackOnLine.com | 1/26/2010 9:15:54 PM

    Excellent news. Congrats to the [many]teams that made this ppossible.

  1. 5  Giulio http://www.buzznotes.com.au | 1/27/2010 4:19:43 PM

    Ed,

    Good news. Shame it cannot be publicly accessible. Can IBM get some sort of special distribution license for it ? (Assuming that it's not a king's ransom)

    It would help alot of BP's by being able to add it to their marketing arsenal and keep rolling the momentum from LS10. Otherwise the value of the impact will be very short-lived whilst it's locked away from general viewing....