Lotusphere '09. Are you ready?

Filed under: Notes/Domino, Sametime, Technology

Several of us in the IBM Sametime Support Group finally finished submitting our abstract submissions for Lotusphere 2009 after much consideration and rewriting. This year I have cosubmitted several aspects with two extremely talented engineers and in the hope that we will have at least one accepted. We have selected topics around administration, best practices and educations that we believe that customers, consultants and IBMers should have to maximize infrastructure uptimes and minimize problems when performing major operations such as migrations or upgrades. All of us are assuming that there were a large number of high quality submissions this year and competitions for presentation slots will be extremely fierce. And so the countdown begins as we wait for responses from the IBM Lotusphere Track Committees and their decisions on what will make up the talks for next year’s Lotusphere event.

Below are the topics we have submitted (in no particular order):

• IBM Middleware: What you really need to know about IBM WebSphere and DB2
• Building your Sametime Architecture: Do it once and do it right!
• Optimize your Sametime environment like no tomorrow
• Architecting a High Availability Sametime Environment (aka how to get your 99.999% availability)
• Integrating IBM Lotus Sametime as part of your Business Transformation
• How to ensure a quick, seemless and successful Sametime Upgrade
• Rev it up! Sametime Performance Considerations
• How to avoid disaster in your collaboration environment. A guide on administering and keeping your Sametime environment in tip-top shape
• A Hitchhikers Guide to the Sametime Gateway
• The dos and don’ts of administering your collaboration environment
• What’s the worst that can happen with Lotus Sametime?
• Sametime Unyte, Gateway, Advanced, Standard and Telephony…are you lost yet? A primer on installing the right tools for your environment
• Meet the Front Line: Sametime L2 Experts at your service
• Architecting a Highly Available Sametime Gateway environment
• Sametime can do what ?

Reminder: Lotusphere 2009 Abstract Submissions due 12 noon EST Today!

Filed under: Notes/Domino, Sametime, Technology

Anyone who is planning to submit a Lotusphere 2009 Abstract needs to remember that it is due by 12 noon EST today. I have a couple in progress which I plan to submit before the deadline. Unlike last year, I have not seen any indication that the deadline will be extended, so get your thinking caps on and crank out some abstracts!

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2009/abstracts.html

Sametime Wiki!

Filed under: Sametime, Technical Support, Technology

During Lotusphere, a post was silently slipped into the Sametime Forums announcing the Sametime Wiki.  Right now, the wiki is focused on various Sametime Gateway scenarios, however we plan to expand this out to include our hot new products such as Sametime Advanced.  So head over, take a look at what’s out there and contribute!

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/sametime/Home

Lotusphere 2008

Filed under: Notes/Domino, Sametime, Technology

Lotusphere 2008 was an exciting time for IBM and with this event, IBM showcased many of the technologies which are in the labs and currently being developed.  Lotus Notes 8 beta for the Mac was finally released and from talking with some users, they are very happy with the performance of the application and are excited to see the final gold version.  The highlight of the conference this year was Sametime.  IBM once again reiterated the Sametime roadmap and demonstrated Sametime Unified Telephony and Sametime Advanced, both of which are expected to be released later this year.

Opening Keynote in 60 seconds

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