This
weekend Summit Entertainment's “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
broke the all-time box-office record for an opening d ay in the US
and also many countries around the world. In the entertainment
industry communication and contacts are key. And while many of the
larger studios try to rely on Microsoft Exchange, Summit
Entertainment stands out as one of the few entertainment companies
that have placed its trust in Lotus Notes. And with good reason too.
While only a small company with less than 200 employees, it has to
find a way to manage 10 million e-mail messages. That's an average
of 50,000 messages per person that grows at an average rate of 2.25GB
per day. In the marketing department multimedia content has seen
some individual mail files grow to 72 GB. Busy executives rarely
find time to file their mail so in-boxes can contain as many as
75,000 messages. Summit's Directory system is upside down to most
companies. They have a small internal directory with around 200
entries linked to a separate Notes application (the Summit Rolodex)
with around 17,000 external contacts.
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All the above is
handled using a single (Linux) mail server running Domino 8.5.1.
Yes, the server is clustered with a 2nd mail server to
ensure the mail system remain operational at all times and a 3rd DR
server is housed in an off-site location just in case. A BES server
is used to keep executives informed away from the office via their
Blackberries and a SameTime server provides IM.
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IT Director
Charles Nicholls has been an ardent fan of Lotus Notes and has no
doubts about his decision to resist the constant push to migrate to
either Exchange or Gmail. He is proud that the company has never
lost any time due to e-mail viruses. And there is no doubt that
Exchange and Gmail would struggle to handle mail files of this size.
After moving to Domino 8.5 and installing DAOS we managed to reduce
the size of our largest mail file from 72GB down to 9GB! And the
cost to keep all this running? Well Charles has a very small team
that keeps the mail system running. I am the sole Domino
Administrator for which I only need to maintain an average of 8 hours
per week to keep the entire Domino infrastructure running in a
clean/stable state.
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I would like to
congratulate Summit Entertainment on their box office success this
weekend. You can be rest assured your mail systems is quietly
delivering all those updates to box office numbers from around the
world.
I haven't spoken with you or Charles in sometime. I am thrilled to
hear that everything is still running so well at Summit. Keep up
the great work there! You guys rock!
This is a great story... one that needs to be out there
side-by-side with the success of this movie! Congrats to Summit
Entertainment and Lotus911 for the success story!
I wonder how 72 GB fit with the current limitations of nsf !?
A good story. IBM should have it on their homepage too. Ok, maybe
they should leave away the few entertainment companies part.
@Henning The mail file was around 60GB at the time of the migration
several months ago. It has now grown to the point where it is 72GB.
It grows at a nearly 100MB per day! Hope this calrifies any
confusion.
@Corey. Thx for you assistance. As an Administrator I make a pretty
good programmer... so it is always helpful to have an Admin guru
such as yourself come in and share some thoughts about how we could
improve what we are doing.
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Sorry Nathan... I should also mention Summit Entertainment's business partner is Lotus911.
I haven't spoken with you or Charles in sometime. I am thrilled to hear that everything is still running so well at Summit. Keep up the great work there! You guys rock!
Peter,
This is spectacular! Congrats to Lotus911 and Summit Entertainment
for their success with Lotus Notes and Domino.
Bruce Elgort
Elguji Software
This is a great story... one that needs to be out there side-by-side with the success of this movie! Congrats to Summit Entertainment and Lotus911 for the success story!
I wonder how 72 GB fit with the current limitations of nsf !?
A good story. IBM should have it on their homepage too. Ok, maybe
they should leave away the few entertainment companies part.
@Henning. The current database has a logical size of 72GB and a physical size of 9GB. Without DAOS I believe we would hit the reported 64GB limit.
Just hard from a Lotus911 employee that their involvement with Summit was for Lotus software licenses. Still very cool!
Well if you shrink 72 GB to 9 GB with DAOS it should have been 72 GB without. But maybe it was just a very large mailfile.
Very nice report
What a wonderful tetament to the power of Domino. Absolutely brilliant! This is why I am so passionate about Domino.
@Henning The mail file was around 60GB at the time of the migration several months ago. It has now grown to the point where it is 72GB. It grows at a nearly 100MB per day! Hope this calrifies any confusion.
@Corey. Thx for you assistance. As an Administrator I make a pretty good programmer... so it is always helpful to have an Admin guru such as yourself come in and share some thoughts about how we could improve what we are doing.