B’musings

November 3, 2008

Interesting comparison of Email system uptime by Google/Radicati

Filed under: Lotus,Technology — Mike Burford @ 3:43 am
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The “Official Google Blog” has posted an entry titled “What we learned from 1 million businesses in the cloud” that in itself is an interesting read, but something that I found intriguing were the figures reported by the Radicati Group comparing downtime between Gmail, GroupWise, Lotus, and Exchange.  The Radicati Group’s report is way too expensive for me to have a look at, but I wonder how many Lotus systems they evaluated that aren’t running on Windows?

Update: Volker and Jack Dausman raise the issue re. the credibility of Radicati’s figures

October 26, 2008

Good familiarisation, practice, demo site – Lotus Greenhouse

Filed under: Lotus,Social Networking,Technology — Mike Burford @ 3:38 am
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If you need a good place to review various IBM Lotus software products, check out Lotus Greenhouse.  It’s got pages for Lotus Connections, Quickr, Sametime, iNotes, Lotus Forms Turbo, Websphere Portal, and IBM Mashup Centre.  You can either use it for learning how the various products work, or work together, as a demo site for clients, or, as in my case, for showing my Microsoft workmates how Lotus products can look and feel.

October 15, 2008

I so much prefer BES/BPS on Domino than Exchange

Filed under: BlackBerry,Lotus — Mike Burford @ 1:31 am
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I do quite a bit of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)/BlackBerry Professional Software (BPS) installation and support on both Domino and Exchange.  Generally it works well in both environments – though I have had some really painful MSDE issues – but if I ever do run into problems it is just so much easier to troubleshoot in a Domino environment, particularly with the Domino console reporting.  Sure, there are the text file logs for Exchange (and Domino), but on a busy server it’s not that easy to pick out the data I’m looking for.  And with a Domino based wireless activation when the user is somewhere else in the city/region/country, being able to track the process from the delivery of the etp message through to the mail/PIM population really helps managing the process and the user’s expectations.

October 14, 2008

Just another IT day

Filed under: Lotus — Mike Burford @ 4:49 am
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I’ve got an IBM x226 server in my home office that I use for testing and demos.  After attending the IBM Lotus Collaboration and Portal Technical University course (long name for a 4-day course!) in Sydney last month I came home all excited about Lotus Connections and eager to get it up and running on my demo system.

We sorted out some additional RAM and a couple of 320 Gb hard drives as my existing 80 Gb drives won’t quite cut it, loaded VMware ESXi and got things up and running, but do you think I can get the new drives to last in the server?  Not a chance.  I’ll get a couple of VM guest servers up and running and everything’s ticking along nicely, then I add a third VM and the datastore disappears and on rebooting the server it reports that the RAID has failed.  Needless to say, by the time I get things rebuilt the data is lost and I start again – with backups of course, but it sure does take a long time to restore 80 Gb virtual disks!  I’ve started again three times now with different disk, server, and SATA configurations (latest firmware etc etc), but no luck.  I can’t find anything online re. compatibility issues with the server and disks, so it must be a special problem just with my system.  I hate that about that.

I gave up half an hour ago and we’ll try with some different drives.  It sure does make for a long process though.

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