Lotus Domino 7

The Lotus Domino 7 enhancements listed below can help reduce time and costs associated with administration, systems management and software deployment and configuration.

Increased scalability and performance

With Lotus Domino 7 server, you can typically support more users with fewer server and network resources. Performance metrics from the IBM development lab (using NotesBench workloads) and statistics from the Lotus Domino 7 beta program indicate that Lotus Domino 7 uses up to 25 percent less CPU resources than the Lotus Domino 6.5 server — and that Lotus Domino 7 software can support up to 80 percent more Lotus Notes users or up to 50 percent more Lotus Domino Web Access users on the same server hardware. By consolidating more users onto the same hardware, you have the opportunity to reduce your total cost of ownership in both hardware costs per user and administration costs.

New diagnostic tools and autonomic capabilities

Lotus Domino domain monitoring: The Lotus Domino domain monitoring feature provides monitoring capabilities and fast recognition and reporting of critical server issues by delivering a single, feature-oriented view through which administrators can see the status of multiple servers across one or more domains. This customizable tool enables administrators to assess the overall health of all Lotus Domino servers in the enterprise and locate problems that may need attention. When a problem is reported, Lotus Domino domain monitoring suggests probable causes and provides possible solutions to fix the problem. It also displays any correlated events, enabling administrators to see if the same problem has been reported on other servers.

Activity trends: Lotus Domino 7 server incorporates the activity trends feature formerly delivered as a separate product called IBM Tivoli(R) Analyzer for Lotus Domino software. This integrated software technology provides powerful, predictive analysis tools to help administrators predict growth and sizing requirements within the Domino server environment and to plan for potential hardware and software changes. Additional capabilities include workload balancing and change management tools to help keep your infrastructure running at an optimal level, and seamless integration with the Lotus Domino 7 administration client.

Mail policies and policy lockdown: Lotus Domino software has long provided features that enable policy-based administration and management for Lotus Notes desktop settings. With Domino policy-based administration, you can easily set standards and enforce IT policies across the organization. With Version 7, you have the option to lock down the settings, and policies can be extended to cover mail and calendar settings stored in user mail files.

Security and anti-spam enhancements

Lotus Domino 7 offers improvements to Lotus Notes ID management and enhanced security features. These include application programming interfaces for manipulating secure e-mail and the option to use 1024 bit RSA encryption keys and 128 bit symmetric keys for the Lotus Notes remote procedure call (RPC) protocol. Enhanced anti-spam features include the use of Domain name system (DNS) whitelists containing public lists of acceptable sources.

Expanded interoperability and integration

Lotus Domino 7 software helps you extend the reach of your Lotus Domino data and applications through support for Web services and open standards and an option to use IBM DB2 Universal Database as an alternative data store.

Lotus Domino 7 server offers native support for Web services, including a Web services hosting environment based on Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). IBM Lotus Domino Designer 7 application development tool provides complementary enhancements including a Web services design element and built-in support for Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The combination of these capabilities can help you easily extend and integrate your applications with J2EE and Microsoft(R) .NET environments—often with less time and effort and using existing skills. Support for open standards also makes it easy to integrate Lotus Domino solutions with other members of the IBM Workplace family, including IBM Workplace Collaboration Services, IBM Workplace Services Express and IBM WebSphere(R) Portal software.

Lotus Domino 7 software offers the opportunity for enhanced integration with IBM DB2 Universal Database software, a relational repository that provides robust information management capabilities. DB2 Universal Database can be used as an alternative data store to Lotus Notes Storage Facility (NSF) on a per-database basis on Microsoft Windows(R) and IBM AIX(R) operating systems. DB2 software integration capabilities enable developers to build new applications that blend collaborative services with structured query language (SQL)-based relational data stored in DB2 databases. This integration also enables organizations to consolidate their data within a common DB2 store and then integrate it with other applications, including IBM Workplace applications.

Enhanced support for Linux

Lotus Domino 7 server offers a new LinuxTM technology-based Web administration client that runs on a Mozilla browser. And Lotus Domino Web Access 7 client now supports Firefox, in addition to Mozilla. These two enhancements expand the Linux messaging and collaboration offerings from IBM and meets the growing demand for additional client options for Linux desktop users. With Lotus Domino 7 and Domino Web Access 7 software, companies can implement a leading-edge, end-to-end collaborative solution for Linux, allowing them to access Lotus Domino on a Linux server from a Linux desktop for messaging, collaboration and administration.

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