No email problem is more troublesome or visible than unsolicited bulk email, commonly known as spam. Spam can have a huge impact on employee productivity, and because it also can serve as a vehicle to deliver malicious content including viruses, worms, and phishing attacks, many organizations tackle the spam problem as a first step in implementing a comprehensive email security strategy. The combination of Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam (SBAS) software and the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 processors is particularly well suited to the demanding task of spam filtering: The UltraSPARC T1 and T2 processors are built to handle highly threaded, network throughput oriented applications, and Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam just such an application.
This Sun BluePrints article provides background information on SBAS software and UltraSPARC T1 and T2 processor-powered servers, the configurations used for performance measurements, the challenges presented by benchmarking anti-spam software, and the actual steps used to tune the hardware/software combination to achieve the reported performance levels. This article was originally published in October 2006 and reflected performance on the Sun Fire / Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 server. It has been updated to reflect more recent measurements comparing a Sun Fire / Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server to a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server using virtually the same tuning parameters.
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