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Everyone else seems to be posting things that reflect on the last year – so I decided to do the same. Below are the top 10 moments/posts/thoughts that I feel are more noteworthy from this blog. Enjoy.

10. Lotus announces Sametime 8.5 before the end of 2009 (despite me being SURE they’d wait to Lotusphere)

9. Disk savings from DAOS was easy to implement and quite beneficial on disk space usage!

8. Began using Google Voice a utility that’s not all “there” yet but potentially a game-changer for managing phone calls & voicemails.

7. Notes turns 20

6. Realized the using an iPhone is more like integrating something into your life than getting a new phone.

5. Realized that people don’t “search” any more, they “Google.”

4. My alter-ego starred in a video all about “conferences at Disney World” which featured Lotusphere 2009.

3. After much debate (and frustration caused largely by SnowLeopard) I abandoned a Mac in favor of a PC.

2. Notes (Traveler) support for the iPhone was released (and it rocks!)

1. I got fed up with hearing things like “notes is a tarnished brand” and one simple thing to try to make my voice heard for a moment by being featured on theInfoBoom.com along with a companion piece on my blog.

Tags: 2009, daos, google, iphone, lotusphere, mac, pc, sametime, traveler

Two weeks ago today I was sitting in the Lotusphere 2009 OGS. I was also in much nicer weather, despite the fact that it was the longest cold streak in Orlando in 20 years. Today, I’m still on a sort of Lotusphere-high and I’m really surprised (and pleased) to see my team is applying a lot of what they learned at the event.

One of the things we were most excited about was DAOS. This utility falls under the category of “stuff I never expected IBM/Lotus to come up with, but am REALLY glad they did.” This is a great example of some brilliant thinking on the part of the Lotus development team because it gets at a core problem within nearly every company: huge amounts of redundant file attachments.

Armed with more how-to knowledge about DAOS, we returned to the office with the goal of implementing this as one of the first action items coming out of Lotusphere. Below are stats from just two of our servers:

• Mail server:
  - 171 db’s analyzed
  - 162GB of NSFs
  - 647,001 attachments
  - 368,877 duplicate attachments
  - Disk savings: 64.1GB
• Application server:
  - 158 db’s analyzed
  - 52.6GB of NSFs
  - 410,219 attachments
  - 148,035 duplicate attachments
  - Disk savings: 12GB

Beyond disk savings on those servers, the value of this extends (almost exponentially) to our backup solution. We store a few days of backups on-disk (so that savings is multiplied) and then write to tape (again, multiplying the savings) and finally to archive tapes. When you consider that the Lotus Notes/Domino upgrade that contains this feature is included in our normal maintenance and that the savings extends throughout our infrastructure … it becomes a tool that’s so much more impressive.

Tags: daos, domino, lotusphere