Norwich based Virgin Money have commissioned Applicable to deliver the associated consultancy and project management for the upgrade of their existing Domino, Sametime and BES estates.

The business drivers for the upgrade focused on the benefits of Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) - minimising redundant and duplicate file attachments in a separate repository on the Lotus Domino server for attachments to help to reduce total cost of ownership and performance.

Typical disk space savings range from 40% to 60% (results will vary), which will ensure that Virgin Money reduce energy consumption via physical disks, I/O, and help reduce costs associated with managing their UK estate. These new capabilities help with resource and cost savings while maintaining compatibility with existing Lotus Notes and Domino applications and infrastructure.

In addition to DAOS, another key benefit is the reduced administration burden with Lotus Domino domain monitoring (DDM), a problem determination resource that provides a view of the overall status of multiple servers across the domain. Server misconfigurations, performance bottlenecks and security issues now require only a minimal amount of administration with Lotus Domino configuration tuner (DCT). DCT generates reports that explain the issues uncovered, suggested mitigations, and references to supporting publications so deployments are more robust and experience better performance.