You mean you need to convince people ???
Some may see it as: Why servers rock ?
Others may see it as: Why, servers rock! 
As you may notice he just talks about the processing power. Which is the major selling point but there is so much more. I came to a conclusion, well it is a fact of life that is applicable almost anywhere, the more money you have the more awesome servers you gets to see 
Servers with multiple sockets for processors, hot swapping, fiber connections, RAM GOD-power, separate physical servers merged as one, my favourite, blades with their management and so much more.
You know what makes them more beautiful, virtualisation … enough said 
Yeah not an ideal thing in a data centre. But imagine rocking it out and managing your IT infrastructure in soothing style
#1 by 3baid on May 22, 2010 - 10:38 AM
I’d buy a bunch if only they were affordable :/
#2 by Bloggylife on May 22, 2010 - 10:58 PM
I concur
#3 by Bashar on May 23, 2010 - 7:09 AM
Server room should be freezing how did he manage to stay in water :p
#4 by Marzouq on May 23, 2010 - 6:39 PM
I put together my own servers with normal equipment and they are pretty damn good!
My next platform is going to be total virtualization! If only I can figure out how to do it well! lol
#5 by MBH on June 3, 2010 - 11:36 AM
I had the opportunity to play with IBM Blades, VMware’s virtualization and IBM’s AIX virtualization.
The amount of low-level technology involved is amazing! On the new AIX 6 OS, you can share 0.2 CPU power between multiple virtual machines (also known as Logical Partitions)! And they can schedule resource movement depending on time & date!
@ Marzouq, drop me an email and I’ll be more than happy to aid you in that
#6 by Bloggylife on June 7, 2010 - 12:08 PM
Bashar
That’s one of my thoughts, but I don’t care, I want a hot tub in the server room, maybe outside it 
Marzouq, you’ll have a blast
MBH, in VmWare I couldn’t assign a fraction of CPU to a machine. I don’t remember the version. But neat IBM virtualisation.
Rescheduling resources can be done in VmWare and whenever needed, machine will eat up available resources.
Moo cheena IBM recommends VmWare on their blades platform ??? When did they release their own?
#7 by MBH on June 7, 2010 - 12:15 PM
IBM’s virtualization works only on their AIX Unix systems with their PowerPC 5+, 6 & 7 processors.
They recommend VMware on their AMD/Intel blades since VMware dominates the x86 architecture virtualization.
Also, IBM recommends VMware because it’s not from Microsoft :p
#8 by Bloggylife on June 7, 2010 - 12:21 PM
LOL you mean the awesomeness that is Hyper-V hehehe
I need to brush up on the virtualisation world
I remember loads of promises and visions.
#9 by MBH on June 7, 2010 - 12:54 PM
Ma7ad awesomeness. Windows itself consumes at least 300MB RAM, slap in Hyper-V and an antivirus and there goes 1.25 GB RAM without even running any virtual machine (VM) yet!
The amount of control and reporting provided by VMware is far more superior to HyperV, because Microsoft wants you to buy its monitoring software (called MOM).