Dai will probably have more to add to this, but I was quite impressed. A few key features upcoming are:
Notes shared login: The initial login prompt can be removed from the Notes sign-on, and the ID file will be unlocked using the Windows login password.
ID vault: This is a server based repository for ID files, and can be used to automatically provision them to the desktop. It can also handle password changes, by helpdesk or self-service
Storage: This is the biggie. DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Storage) works by pulling attachments out and storing them as individual files on the file system (optionally encrypted) of the notes server. It will also handle de-duplication. IBM have seen between 40-82% reduction is disk usage by doing this. Because mail files are smaller, it's more I/O friendly too, and reduces database compaction/reindexing/defragmenting times considerably. Also, because attachments are reasonably static, incremental and differential backups are considerably smaller and faster.
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Shared login sounds interesting. Anything that reduced the number of passwords to remember will be a winner with end users.
The shared data storage sounds like what we used to have in the mainframe days (yes we did have email on the mainframe). If you sent an attachment it kept one central copy regardless of the number of recipients, and each user had a link to the shared copy.
New technology still has lessons to learn from the way things used to be done when disk was a scarce resource !
Lotus have tried a similar thing to DAOS before, called the Single Copy Object Store - certainly in the early days it didn't work as designed and I guess it's possible that this is a change in response to continued inability to get it right!
The ID Vault sounds promising from a password sync angle - assuming that security isn't proprietary and obstructive! Though I suppose that if shared login works in an AD-based SDS, the password sync problem for Notes ID files goes away.
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