Deployments, Performance, & Interoperability (DPI) Lab Blog

Domino 7.0.2 FP2 on VMware ESX 3.0.1 whitepaper - now available

Ivan Dell’Era — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:10 -0400

The "IBM Lotus Domino Performance in a VMware Infrastructure 3 Environment" whitepaper was finally approved by VMware and IBM and is now available to customers under Non Disclosure Agreement. This means we aren't allowed to post it on a public website, however if your company has a current NDA agreement with either IBM or VMware, you can contact your representative and request a copy.

Update on Domino whitepaper on VMware ESX

Ivan Dell’Era — Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:06:48 -0400

We reached an agreement with VMware and they agreed to publish our findings in a whitepaper, however it won't be publicly available as it will be released under NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement). It's in the (hopefully) final rewrite by the tech editor and if no major changes are requested, we should see it in a month (I know, I promised it since last year, but it's coming, really).

Whitepaper: Sametime on VMware ESX Server

Ivan Dell’Era — Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:43:00 -0400

The whitepaper for Sametime is available on the VMware web site: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/ibm_lotus_sametime_ref_arch_vi3_wp.pdf

Domino whitepaper on VMware ESX - update

Ivan Dell’Era — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:22:37 -0400

We don't have yet an agreement with VMware on publishing the results. I'm working on other options to publish the results but currently we aren't allowed to publish the whitepaper we completed based on the benchmark we completed last Summer.

Notes / Domino 8 Upgrader’s Guide

David Bell — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:43:37 -0400

Several of my colleagues in the IBM Software Services for Lotus Americas team recently had the Lotus Notes / Domino 8 Upgrader's Guide published.

This guide is sure to become an indispensable resource for Notes users, administrators, and developers interested in learning more about what's new in the latest version of Notes/Domino. The pages are packed with useful information on new Notes 8 features and tools, upgrade approaches, integration considerations (including with Lotus Quickr, Sametime, and Connections), and much more.

If you're looking to add this to your bookshelf, it can be ordered from Packt Publishing and Amazon.com.

About the Author(s)

Tim Speed

Tim Speed is an IBM Certified Systems Architect with IBM Software Services for Lotus. In that capacity, he is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting various engagements with its clients. Mr. Speed lives in Denton, Texas and has been an IBM/Lotus employee for over 12 years in a variety of networking, technical, hardware and software support and consulting positions. He has been working with Notes for over 15 years focusing on administration roles and infrastructure. He also has international experience with working on infrastructure engagements in Spain, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the UK, and Indonesia.

Brad Schauf
Brad Schauf is an IBM Executive I/T Architect with over 20 years of experience in the computer services and consulting industry. He has experience with enterprise-wide software and messaging and portal deployments, with a concentration on Lotus Notes/Domino messaging infrastructure architecture, application development, and integration as well as WebSphere portal architecture design and deployments. His experience includes API-level application development and lead programmer, enterprise lead for messaging and portal deployments to General Manager including P&L commitments. He was a founder of a successful IBM business partner before joining IBM in 1999.

David Byrd

David Byrd is an IBM Senior Certified Executive IT Architect with IBM Software Services for Lotus from Fayetteville, GA. He has been an IBM/Lotus employee for over 9 years in a number of consulting positions covering various technology areas. David has a deep background in virtually all areas of Lotus products and technologies covering areas ranging from low-level API development and collaborative application architectures, to security architectures and messaging architectures. His current focus is on Lotus Quickr as well as other team collaboration technologies and its deployment within enterprise customers. He has worked with Lotus Notes and Domino for over 15 years.

Joseph Anderson

Joseph Anderson is an IBM Certified Senior Managing Consultant from the IBM Software Services for Lotus team. Joseph has worked with Lotus Notes/Domino, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus QuickPlace since the early 1990s, primarily as a consultant. He is currently working with the Competitive Software team focusing on Domino/Notes administration, migration/upgrade, and security. Prior to working in the consulting industry, Joseph worked in the legal industry as a Director of Operations, where he leveraged his Master of Science in Legal Administration from the University of Denver College of Law.

Barry Rosen

Barry Rosen is currently an Advisory IT Specialist with IBM Software Services for Lotus. During the last two years, Mr. Rosen has worked on several large messaging and migration projects as well as performed Domino upgrades and messaging assessments. Before that he was a Software Engineer in Lotus Support for over five years. While in support Mr. Rosen was on several teams specializing in mail routing, Lotus Notes Client, calendaring and scheduling, and server core. He focused on clustering, Lotus Notes for the Macintosh, and rooms and resources. Currently Mr. Rosen resides in Houston, Tx. Having graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, Mr. Rosen enjoys following Longhorn sports.

Bennie Gibson

Bennie Gibson is an IBM Certified Systems Architect with IBM Software Services for Lotus. In that capacity, he is responsible for managing various engagements with its clients. Mr. Gibson lives in Wake Forest, NC and has been an IBM/Lotus employee for over 24 years in a variety of sales, consulting, and management roles. He has been working with Notes for over 10 years focusing on architecture and infrastructure. He also has international experience with working on infrastructure engagements in Malaysia.

Dick McCarrick (Editor)

Dick McCarrick is a freelance writer who has worked extensively with Lotus Notes and Domino over the years. Dick spent over 15 years with the Lotus Notes and Domino team, initially as a documentation writer, then later with developerWorks: Lotus. Since leaving IBM, he continues to be involved with Notes/Domino, co-authoring three previous books on this product.

Stephen Hardison (IBM Official Reviewer)

Stephen Hardison is an IBM Certified I/T Specialist with IBM Software Services for Lotus. He focuses on the design, implementation, and assessment of large-scale collaborative solutions based on Lotus Domino, WebSphere Portal, and Lotus Connections. Mr. Hardison joined IBM in 1999, and has worked in the Information Technology industry for over 20 years. He has worked on several world-wide deployments of Lotus products. Customer engagements have taken him to Argentina, the Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, France, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. He lives near Austin, Texas.

What is a best practices approach to supported Portal versions in a deployment ?

Markus Nagel — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:42:39 -0400

What is a best practices approach to supported Portal versions in a deployment?

I've been asked what is a best practices approach to support WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Application Server versions in a typical production environment.

Here's the simple (but important) answer:

Although other configurations and versions may be supported, my advice is:
Stick to the suggestions made on the WebSphere Portal Server Support Page: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/support/" title="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/support/">http://www-306.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/support/

The section "Recommended fixes and updates" contains quality recommendations about version dependencies between WebSphere Portal, WCM, WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Process Server.

It is a best practice approach to regularly check the Support Page for important updates.

If you plan to update a certain component of your deployment, check the dependencies first and download other necessary fixes, if applicable.

Monday January 21, 2008 Questions Asked

Markus Nagel — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:35:19 -0400

Integration between Portal and Quickr (J2EE Version)
Question: We've just had a customer asking the different integration approaches between Portal and Quickr (J2EE).

1.) The easiest approach for a new Quickr installation is: Why not use Quickr as your Portal? Quickr (J2EE) lives on a full-fledged WebSphere Portal 6 installation - so you could use this as your portal and deploy your applications onto the Quickr Portal or even use Virtual Portals.

The System Verification Test (SVT) Team has published some scenarios with Quickr8 Services for WebSphere Portal. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27010312

2.) If you want to have separate Portal Servers - you could use WSRP Portlets to surface your portlets on the Quickr side where needed. To keep the setup easy, you might want to use the same URL domain (for the LTPA token) and the same LDAP server. Integrating these is straightforward.

Slow Login Performance when using Active Directory
Question: How do I increase login performance when using Microsoft Active Directory as LDAP server?

Firstly, I'd like to stress the fact that the low login performance is not a problem that is specifically related to WebSphere Portal. Any LDAP based system (your Apache Server, PHP Application or any other tool using LDAP as authentication source) will have the same problem. This is related to the hierarchical structure that can grow to deeply nested subtrees in large deployments. When WebSphere Portal (or any other LDAP-based authentication mechanism) issues a search request, Active Directory has to search for the users through all sub-trees recursively, which can be time-consuming.
Depending on the Active Directory setup, maybe some of the sub-trees reside on different servers which results in network traffice between AD server nodes.

There a some ways around this:

1.) Active Directory provides "Global Catalog" Servers with a condensed version of the directory with better response times (Windows and AD internally use these, too - but with proprietary protocols, not LDAP )
You should consult with your Windows / AD admins how and where these "GC" servers have been set up. Specifically use these, not just any AD server.

2.) If it is not possible to use the GC servers, use Tivoli Directory Integrator to create a condensed version of your directory for LDAP authentication purposes only. If you do, be aware that changes made to user profiles (e.g. through self-care) need to be replicated back to the Active Directory.

3.) Re-Design the Active Directory (which is not possible in most of the cases, but for sake of completeness...) to store users and groups at specific places / in specific trees instead of scattered throughout the AD infrastructure.

HND 107 - Using IBM Lotus Domino Notes System Disagnostic (NSD) Soft copy Hand out

Elliott Harden — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:06:06 -0400

Attached you will find the soft copy. For the many people who have asked Joe and I "Will there be a repeat of this session?" please note this to the Lotusphere staff and through Lotusphere Online.
Please click the title to download.
Enjoy

Outputting your custom applications callstacks in NSD

Elliott Harden — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:31:56 -0400

In the NSD Hands On Lab many customers asked how do we get detailed functions of our customer application in the NSD output. When NSD runs it annotates call stacks against LotusDomino.sym (symbol file). This produces functions and offsets to give further insight to what when and how the process crashed. After talking with Jim Rouleau when NSD runs it will look through all *.sym files in the Notes/Domino program directory. Now you can take the map file from your custom application, create a sym file from your map file. Once you have a custom sym file you can now get your custom applications annotated data in the NSD.

For more information check out Map2iSym.exe located in the CAPI Toolkit
http://www-12.lotus.com/ldd/doc/tools/c/7.0/api70ug.nsf/85255d56004d2bfd85255b1800631684/00cb00910049008485255e3d00774c2f?OpenDocument

Lotus Domino 8 server performance

Andrew Nolet — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:22:08 -0400

Lotus Domino 8 server performance

With Notes / Domino 8 we have an all new, redesigned Notes client with increased functionality, and a far superior user interface. Maintaining Domino mail server scalability with this new client was of critical importance, and we hope to show you in this article that Domino 8 not only equals, but generally outperforms the previous release.

In this article we will show how Domino 8 with the Notes 8 client performs across a variety of server platforms. We will show tests with thousands of simulated Notes users running thru common mail and calendar scenarios. Since the new client has changed some of the requests made of the Domino server, we created a new workload (N8Mail) that models transactions observed while tracing the Notes 8 client as a real Notes 8 user performed the chosen tasks. Then we did the same thing for the Notes 7 client, and created the N7Mail workload which models the same user actions, but with the set of requests that a Notes 7 user would generate.

This article is the full discussion of the Domino 8 Performance results:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/domino8-performance/index.html?S_TACT=105AGX13&S_CMPíU

The network bandwidth increase, for D8 when compared with D7, reported in The D8 server performance with the Notes Client report,
was due to 2 reasons.

A NotesBench N8 Client workload simulation bug. The N8Mail workload in Notesbench 8.0 Gold version had two issues.

Issue #1 was that the workload did not set the correct Since Time for the Modified Note Info request calls during View Refresh transaction in the workload.
Issue #2 was that the workload simulated a full Note Open instead of summary only Note Open call during the delete transaction in the workload.

These two notesbench bugs in the N8Mail workload caused the server to return more data to the notesbench clients than what the Notes 8 client would retrieve for the above two transactions in the N8Mail workload .

The Notes 8 client retrieves more documents in a view for a given screen size, than the Notes 7 client. This was a design consideration in the Notes 8 Client to cache more documents for a better user experience during page scrolling . The Notes Client uses the NIFReadEntries API call to fetch the entries in a Notes View . The Notes 8 clientretrieves 50 entries in the Inbox , while Notes 7 Client retrieves only 42 entries in Inbox during .

For D8.0.1, the NotesBench N8 Client workload simulation bugs were fixed. The number of read entries the N8 client does was not changed.

Below is a chart that illustrates the effect of the Notesbench workload change to the Network Bandwidth calculation. Note, the remaining increase is a result of the new to N8 readentries increase. Other metrics, such as CPU and disk I/O did not change with the workload change.

Network Bandwidth Resource Usage at 4000 users for AIX

	Domino 7	Domino 8	% Change
Mail Template	Mail7.ntf	Mail8.ntf	n/a
Workload	N7Mail	N8Mail	n/a
Network Kbytes/sec (with old N8Mail workload )	2,427	2,903	20%
Network Kbytes/sec (with new N8Mail workload )	2,386	2,550	7%

Network Bandwidth Resource Usage at 4000 users for Windows

	Domino 7	Domino 8	% Change
Mail Template	Mail7.ntf	Mail8.ntf	n/a
Workload	N7Mail	N8Mail	n/a
Network Kbytes/sec (with old N8Mail workload )	2,632	3,072	17%
Network Kbytes/sec (with new N8Mail workload )	2,540	2,768	9%

Behold the awesome power of ODS 48

Frederic Dahm — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:46:25 -0400

It happened again. I was presenting best practices for upgrading to version 8 to clients and business partners on Monday and then I talked about ODS. Suddenly, I noticed that everyones eyes glazed over, as they weren't really sure what this TLA (Three Letter Acronym) was all about. As I suspect that more than just these esteemed people might not know for sure what ODS is and what it all has to do with Notes and Domino, let me take a moment to expand upon this as part of this blog entry.

On-Disk Structure (ODS)

Every major release of Notes/Domino (e.g., versions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7 and now 8) has included significant architectural changes to the database structure, also known as the On-Disk Structure (ODS). These architectural changes enables the Notes and Domino development team to improve performance and scalability in each release. Upgrading the databases provides a lot of benefits, with very low risk, so this has always been an important early step in any Notes and Domino upgrade plan.

The ODS version for each major release of Notes and Domino is as follows:

v2 -- ODS 16/16.3
v3 -- ODS 17/17.3
v4 -- ODS 20
v5 -- ODS 41
v6/v7 -- ODS 43
v8 -- ODS 48

So there is now a new ODS for Notes and Domino 8, which is ODS 48. However, that ODS version is not enabled by default for new or upgraded applications. This permits an easy migration from 6.5 and 7.0 environments.

So what does ODS 48 provide?

A major consideration for mail servers when considering upgrading to a newer version of Domino is the impact this will have on disk space utilization resulting in the use of the new mail template. Typically, new templates imply new features and new functionality and these generally require more space by the newer design contained in the template. With version 8, it is no exception. There is considerably more features offered to the user and these will consume more space. The Notes Mail 7 Template requires 17 GB of disk space (for the design alone) whereas the Notes Mail 8 Template requires 25 MB (both based on ODS 43).

Thus, if the design is applied to 1,000 mail files present on the server, there will be an increase of 8GB in disk space utilization, for a total of 25GB just for the design alone. Given that many servers handle more than 1,000 users (and a commensurate number of mail files), this may have a broader impact on disk space utilization.

So ODS 48 helps by enabling design note compression. This is an option by which the design notes within a database can be compressed as part of the new On Disk Structure in Notes and Domino 8. This feature reduces the size of databases by compressing design elements by up to 60%. For example, the design elements in a database based on the standard Notes 8 Mail template (Mail8.ntf) reduce in size from approximately 25MB to 11MB once design compression is implemented. The compression percentage achieved will vary from database to database based upon the individual compression ratio achieved for each design element in each database.

In real terms, it means that, upgrading to Domino 8 and ODS 48, there would be a decrease in disk space used just by upgrading instead of the customary increaase.The decrease, for 1,000 mail files would actually be of 6 GB, significantly decreasing the disk overhead on a per-mail file basis.

How is ODS 48 implemented?

As mentioned, ODS 48 is not enabled by default for new or upgraded applications. ODS 43 is the norm. To implement ODS 48, the parameter CREATE_R8_DATABASES=1 needs to be added to the notes.ini file to enable ODS 48 (Version 8) as the default.

Thus, for the Domino 8 server, applications residing on the server are upgraded in the following manner:

The CREATE_R8_DATABASES=1 notes.ini parameter needs to be added to the notes.ini file on the Domino server (note: the parameter is dynamic and can be enabled with 1 or disabled with 0 using "set config"; as well, the parameter is not case sensitive);
Load Compact -c against the applications that need to be upgraded to ODS 48 (note: if an application is updated by error, it is possible to revert the ODS to the previous release with Compact -r).

Any new applications created on the Domino server will be created with ODS 48, provided that the CREATE_R8_DATABASES parameter is set to 1. If the value is returned to 0 (zero), new applications will be created with ODS 43. The procedure is the same for the Notes client.

IBM Lotus Domino V8 server with the IBM Lotus Notes V8 client: Performance

Joe Malek — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:22:35 -0400

Maintaining IBM Lotus Domino V8 mail server scalability with the IBM Lotus Notes V8 client is critical, and this article shows that Lotus Domino V8 not only equals, but outperforms the previous release. Let us show you how Lotus Domino V8 with the Lotus Notes V8 client performs across a variety of server platforms. Stop into the DPI lab and ask for Joe, Harry, Andy and Raz. We can help you better understand Domino 8 server scalability.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/domino8-performance/index.html?S_TACT=105AGX13&S_CMPíU

Lotus Software Product Documentation

Frederic Dahm — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:45:54 -0400

A thing that comes up frequently when talking with customers is where can they find information about Lotus Software products, other than in the online help databases and the Redbooks/Redpapers? Well, let's take a moment to look into that...

Much like other IBM/Lotus products, Domino has joined the Information Center way of delivering help information. Let's not worry too much, there is still a place for .nsf files. After all, the "Lotus Domino 8 Administrator Help" database ships with the product and is also available via the Lotus Domino Documentation site. But there is indeed a new addition to the Domino Documentation site: the InfoCenter.

The "Lotus Domino 8 Information Center" contains the same information as that of the "Lotus Domino Administrator Help" database, but in a different format. The format matches that of the InfoCenters for Lotus Sametime, Lotus Quckr, Lotus Connections and WebSphere Portal. So, now you have a choice of format when you refer to Domino help.

Provided below is the list of links where you can find the documentation you need on-line, over the World Wide Web, through an Internet connection.

Lotus Domino documentation - the main Lotus Domino documentation site: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/domino/
Lotus support: Self-help and services (includes access to the Lotus support knowledge base): http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/support/

...as well as the aforementioned Information Centers...

IBM Lotus Domino and Notes Information Center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp
IBM Lotus Sametime Version 7.5.1 CF1 information center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/sametime/v7r5m1/index.jsp
IBM Lotus Quickr Version 8.0 Information Center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lqkrhelp/v8r0/index.jsp
IBM Lotus Connections information center : http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ltscnnct/v1r0/index.jsp
IBM� WebSphere� Portal, Version 6.0 Information Center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wpdoc/v6r0/index.jsp

And there you have it. Alternatively, there'll be the people in the labs at Lotusphere.. But unlike these Information Centers, you'll be able to consult these people only for a week.

Why there is a DPI Lab at Lotusphere

Frederic Dahm — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:42:26 -0400

The Domino server (and a majority of the Lotus Software products) are easy to install. Generally, all it takes is to launch the installation executable and answer a few questions (e.g., where to install the product, what type of install will it be, etc...). Afterwards, there are some more questions as to how to properly configure the product (e.g., what are some of the basic parameters for it to work properly). Once this is done, the product in question will generally do what it is supposed to do and provide the services it is meant to provide.

But that's only part of the story. If it were the whole story, there would be the "Meet the Developers" lab and that would be it.

Thing is, the products are not islands in of themselves and they need to interact with the rest of the infrastructure, such as the operating system, network, etc... So the devil is indeed in the details. It may be necessary to further tweak the product to make it work within some constraints (e.g., memory, disk space, processing capabilities of the machine, etc...) or to work with other components (e.g., Single Sign-On, smartcards, third-party products, etc...).

The installation is part of the deployment. The tweaking of the product is generally done as part of the need that exists for interoperability. Tweaking is also further done for the sake of performance, since the product is, by default, meant as a generic install upon a generic platform and it is generally required that parameters be tuned to really take advantage of all the performance offered by the specific platform upon which the product is installed.

This is thus why the Deployment, Performance and Interoperability (DPI) lab is there at Lotusphere and open for its attendees to visit. Once the core developers have provided a specific Lotus Software product, the DPI Lab people are the ones who are there -- as part of their regular functions at Lotus -- to help Lotus customers install products better, make them perform better and make them work with other products better. The lab has people with expertise on many different platforms (Windows, AIX, iOS, zOS, Linux, etc...) and for different Lotus products. They do this year-round as part of work engagements. So, during the Lotusphere week, they've come to the conference to share their knowledge and expertise.

All that's missing is you. See you there. ;o)

Taking the first steps back to Lotusphere

Frederic Dahm — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:43:39 -0400

It wasn't so long ago that everyone in the lab was helping close the lab, having committed time and effort during that week to greeting people who had come, hearing their questions and doing their best to provide expertise and advise. Some like me, even took some of those questions outside of the lab and provided longer, more detailed answers by mail. As we closed the doors on the lab, the rest of the year lay ahead of us, where we would do roughly the same things as we did in the lab, except going from customer to customer and doing our best to help them fulfil their goals and objectives relating to their environment and their investment in Lotus (and connex) brand software.

Now, we are but a few days from another Lotusphere and come Sunday the 19th of January, the doors are going to open once again to lab members to setup the lab; the tables will be put up, the chairs placed next to the tables and some servers -- needed for some demos -- will be also setup. Then on the Monday morning, we'll all go back to the lab, open the doors, place our laptops on the tables and await once again our customers and welcome them as we did a year ago. As this is my third year in the lab, I look forward again to seeing Lotusphere attendees and hope to be as much of assistance as I was in the preceding years. So will my colleagues.

So bring yourself on over and come and say hi. It'll be really nice to see you. And if you've come to see us in the past years, it'll be nice to see you again. Truth be told, we never tire of the friendly faces of our customers. :o)

Unique Opportunity -> Lotus Connections - Meet the Testers

Patrick O’Sullivan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:23:03 -0400

Rare Opportunity - Not to be Missed!!

Key Test Engineers on hand at the Deployment Performance and Interoperability Lab at the Dolphin Hotel in Europe 3/4 who can help you through some of your most challenging product areas: Test leading to Product Deployment! After learning about the new product features that you want to implement and deploy, you have to carefully plan for integration in your user installed base and production configuration environment.

The experts to help you through this process are available for an informative and insightful discussion, You will come away with new ideas and approaches to be more successful. Guaranteed!

Seriously ;),
The Lotus Connections System Test Team invite you to visit us and learn about IBM's approach to Test. We can share how we approach the many phases of Test at IBM including unit test, feature test, system test, performance test, globalization test and so on.

You can also learn of the key ingredients required to build a production readiness test plan, looking at all aspects of your IT challenge and structuring a test plan to address the rigorous requirements around production readiness.

Patrick O'Sullivan is the System Test Architect and Morten Kristiansen is the Chief Tester. Just ask for Pat or Morten when you visit our lab.

Lotus Quickr - Meet the Testers

Patrick O’Sullivan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:20:19 -0400

The Lotus Quickr System Test Team invite you to visit us and learn about IBM's approach to Test. We can share how we approach the many phases of Test at IBM including unit test, feature test, system test, performance test, globalization test and so on.

You can also learn of the key ingredients required to build a production readiness test plan, looking at all aspects of your IT challenge and structuring a test plan to address the rigorous requirements around production readiness.

Patrick O'Sullivan is the System Test Architect and Morten Kristiansen the Chief Tester. Just ask for Pat or Morten when you visit our lab.

Lotus Quickr - Want to learn about Reliability & Load Testing?

Patrick O’Sullivan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:17:42 -0400

The Lotus Quickr System Test Team invite you to visit us and learn about reliability, load, stress and stability testing, as well as how to demonstrate that your infrastructure is able to meet the demands of your user groups.
Likewise, we can discuss product capabilities that maximize stability, and help you approach and plan deployment decisions in a way that maximizes value from your IT investment.

Patrick O'Sullivan is the System Test Architect and Morten Kristiansen is the Chief Tester. Just ask for Pat or Morten when you visit our lab.

Not to be Missed -> Lotus Connections - Want to learn about Reliability & Load Testing?

Patrick O’Sullivan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:15:21 -0400

The Lotus Connections System Test Team invite you to visit us and learn about reliability, load, stress and stability testing, as well as how to demonstrate that your infrastructure is able to meet the demands of your user groups.
Likewise, we can discuss product capabilities that maximize stability, and help you approach and plan deployment decisions in a way that maximizes value from your IT investment.

Patrick O'Sullivan is the System Test Architect and Morten Kristiansen is the Chief Tester. Just ask for Pat or Morten when you visit our lab.

Lotus Connections - Integration capabilities across the Connections Services & the Lotus Product Portfolio

Patrick O’Sullivan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:42:11 -0400

The Lotus Connections System Test Team invite you to visit us and learn about the integration and interoperability capabilities that are supported between all of the Lotus Connections' services, including Profiles, Communities, Blogs, Dogear and Activities. Likewise, we can show you the integration capabilities that exist between the Lotus Connections services and other product in the Lotus Brand - such as Sametime, Notes & Domino.

Likewise, we can discuss your product deployment plans and help you approach and plan deployment decisions in a way that maximizes value from your IT investment, as well as sharing real System Test Data from testing and deployments that we have in IBM.

Patrick O'Sullivan is the System Test Architect and Morten Kristiansen is the Chief Tester. Just ask for Pat or Morten when you visit our lab.