The Sun Fire V1280 server is a rack optimized, highly scalable, low cost datacenter server that brings enterprise-class features to entry and mid-market datacenters. It is aimed at the network intensive, datacenter market, which is characterized by dozens, hundreds or thousands of servers installed in racks and constantly processing, storing and transmitting information across Internet, intranets and extranets. With support for hot CPU upgrades, online maintenance, single-image clustering and up to 12 UltraSPARC III Cu processors, it is an ideal platform for any environment where price/performance and compute density are primary considerations.