Firm claims to turn Lotus Notes slug into faster slug

BIG FIRMS with limited bandwidth and high latency that use Lotus Notes need Blue Coat Proxy SG appliances to make their employees work faster and more effectively, er, Blue Coat said.

The firm claimed that tests in its own offices showed that these Proxy SG appliances can speed up the performance of Notes on a WAN at branch offices by 22 times, and reduce the bandwidth by up to 95 per cent.

Which seems an awful lot. Can't IBM do something to speed things up?

The Proxy SG appliances use byte caching compression, protocol optimisation and bandwidth maanagement to give Lotus Notes a kick up the backside on the WAN. Notes apps, claimed Blue Coat, contain databases that have repetitive and compressible elements that respond well to a dose of its Mach 5 technology, it appears. µ