We like these kinds of case studies..."Police department realizes 77 percent capacity savings when it upgrades"

April 13 2010

Strong endorsement of the TCO savings in the Notes/Domino 8.5 architecture, validated by the Forest City Police department and their business partner Simplified Technology Solutions:

Benefits:
Reduced existing storage capacity by 77 percent by eliminating duplicate documents; Avoided the costs of implementing a large storage system; Provided room for continued growth and facilitated the expanded use of technology for communicating among department and community members; Lotus Protector for Mail Security improves blocking of spam without "false positives" that block legitimate e-mail.
Link: ibm.com: Police department realizes 77 percent capacity savings when it upgrades IBM Lotus software >

Ed Brill | Highland Park, IL USA Category:  notesdomino lotusnotes 8.5 lotus  Add/View Comments [4]

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  1. 1  bill Geimer  | 4/13/2010 4:53:30 PM

    Good to know as the E product runs out of space all the time.

  1. 2  Darren Duke http://blog.darrenduke.net | 4/13/2010 9:48:27 PM

    Erm, Ed meant "...validated by the City of Forest Park Police Dept...." ;)

    For those who follow my (somewhat frequent) DAOS Real World Examples page { Link } this STS customer was the very first one we did back in Jan-March of 2009 (it takes a while to get it through the IBM process ;0). Back then the customer was weeks from a storage catastrophe but since moving to DAOS they haven't looked back.

    Now, 77% was when the DAOS minimum object size was 4KB. It is now 64KB and we see an average of 55-70% overall depending on platform with this setting (i5 is a 1MB for example). I blog about 1 in every 5 or so and the bare minimum we have ever seen in a production mail server is 40% reduction.

  1. 3  Henry Ferlauto  | 4/14/2010 11:35:18 AM

    What version of Domino were they running prior to the upgrade?

  1. 4  Lindon Flood  | 4/14/2010 7:36:08 PM

    Not DAOS, but here's another recent success story in Australia

    { Link }