The Sun Fire V880 server excels in an extensive range of applications including Internet and database, e-commerce, ERP and messaging. The balanced system architecture helps ensure responsiveness to the most demanding applications. This server combines high performance and exceptional scalability with an enhanced set of reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features.Powered by UltraSPARC III technology the Sun Fire V880 server is a highly scalable, well-balanced system whether the workload is I/O intensive, compute intensive, or both. In addition to the hot swap PCI slots, disks, power supplies and cooling fan trays, the Sun Fire V880 server offers other enhanced RAS features. These include Automatic System Recovery (ASR) and Remote System Control (RSC). ASR configures around many failed components, thereby allowing the restoration of service. RSC facilitates remote and/or centralized management. All of these features help provide a higher level of availability for critical applications.