According to SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation), "The SPECmail2009 benchmark measures the ability of corporate e-mail systems to meet today's demanding e-mail users over fast corporate local area networks (LAN). The SPECmail2009 benchmark simulates corporate mail server workloads that range from 250 to 10,000 or more users, using industry standard SMTP and IMAP4 protocols."

Sun has published SPECmail2009 results for the Sun Java Messaging server 7.2, which achieved a world record:

• World record SPECmail2009 benchmark using the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus), Sun Communications Suite 7, Solaris 10, and the Sun Storage 7310 Unified Storage System achieved 14,500 SPECmail_Ent2009 users at 69,857 Sessions/Hour.

• This SPECmail2009 benchmark result clearly demonstrates that the Sun Messaging Server 7.2, Solaris 10 and ZFS solution can support a large, enterprise level IMAP mail server environment as a low cost 'Sun on Sun' solution, delivering the best performance and maximizing data integrity and availability of Sun Open Storage and ZFS.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server supported 2.4 times more users with 2.4 times better sessions/hour rate than AppleXserv3 solution on the SPECmail2009 benchmark.

• The configuration using Sun OpenStorage outperformed all previous results with traditional direct attached storage and significantly higher number of disk devices.

The Sun BestPerf blog has details of the servers, storage and software used to achieve this result.

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