Spam is clogging your network, servers, and inboxes at a rate that grows every day. Viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, and
phishers are getting smarter at finding ways of assaulting your users, costing you money and productivity. In the arms race
against spammers, here's your advantage. It's the leading spam-killing software from Symantec, powered by Sun's multithreaded
CoolThreads technology. It filters out more than 97 percent of unwanted
emails at the gateway, before they reach user desktops. The Sun Message Security Solution for Symantec Brightmail Software is like
having two security companies working for you full-time.
At A Glance
Combines highly-threaded Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam software with the only 64-thread server solution
Stops 97 percent or more of incoming spam before it can reach other servers and inboxes
Up to 64 simultaneous compute threads on a single chip, dedicated to rapid email scanning
Filtering rules are updated securely online by Symantec every 5-10 minutes
Trust Symantec to Filter Spam
Symantec Brightmail Software
delivers top anti-spam and email threat protection while preserving the free flow of email from legitimate sources. The accuracy
of its filters gives it a track record of better than 99.9999 percent on false positives – fewer than one in one million messages.
Its effectiveness and ease of administration have made it a market leader in enterprise and service provider spam filtering.
Choose Sun CoolThreads Servers to Get It Done
Because spam filtering is inherently a multithreaded workload, Sun's industry-leading CoolThreads
technology servers do it faster than anything else you can fit into a 1RU or 2RU rackspace, or a single blade
slot Sun CoolThreads servers give you from 16-64 simultaneous compute threads powered by a single UltraSPARC T1 or T2 processor.
No other server can deliver as much compute power in as little space, using so little power.
Symantec and Sun Go Further Together
Working together to cut the cost of spam filtering, Symantec and Sun optimized the Brightmail Software
to take full advantage of the incredible number of simultaneous processing threads available with Sun CoolThreads
servers and the Solaris 10 operating system. We also fine-tuned the configuration settings on the servers for the
highest software performance to keep your network and desktops running at full speed.
Where to Go from Here
See our solution Offerings to choose which Sun CoolThreads server is right for you.
In 2004, Nucleus Research published its report on spam and concluded:
The cost of lost productivity directly related to spam increased from $874 per employee in 2003 to $1934 per employee.
During that time, users reported an increase from an average of 13 spam messages received a day to 29.
Fortune 500 companies showed they spent an average of $2,000 per employee on help desk costs related to spam.
End-users at companies with enterprise anti-spam technologies received 20 percent less spam, and this restoration of employee productivity more than paid for the solutions implemented.
