Because of Sun's industry-leading investment protection technologies, you can save costs over the lifecycle of your hardware and applications. Sun's commitment to 100- percent application binary compatibility means that there is no disruption to your existing software infrastructure. Plus, a four-socket server supports mixed generations and speeds of UltraSPARC IV CPU and memory boards in the same system, allowing you to maintain existing investments while seamlessly upgrading your system with faster processors. Leveraging advanced Solaris 10 OS capabilities such as Solaris Containers, the Sun Fire V490 server is an ideal platform to run multiple applications in an isolated and secure environment for projects such as enterprise messaging consolidation. The Sun Fire V490 server delivers significant productivity gains to address ever-demanding applications such as application serving, business processing, database services, IT infrastructure, application development, collaboration, and compute- intensive scientific engineering.