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VALERIE ST JOHN: Welcome to TechWiseTV, I'm Valerie St John, along with Cisco solution experts Robb Boyd and Jimmy Ray Purser, hey guys.

JIMMY RAY PURSER: Hey, how are you?

ROBB BOYD: Hey.

VALERIE ST JOHN: Our focus today, breaking the application bottleneck. We demand more and more out of our networks today, you know that. The need to regain control over a multitude of business critical applications is leading a wave of recentralization. As with everything in life, the purpose of course is to either avoid pain, or seek benefits. Robb, what's at stake here?

ROBB BOYD: Or as I say, avoid pain, or gain pleasure, or could we put an and in there? Can I gain pleasure while at the same time avoiding pain? I think that would be an ideal situation. I think the issue here becomes we've got users already complaining about application response times and things like this, and at the same time, we're telling a lot of people that there's benefits to centralizing applications, moving them potentially further away from the users. Is that simply going to exasperate the problem? Is that going to create more of an application bottleneck that we need to be aware of?

VALERIE ST JOHN: So if recentralization then is the right way to regain control of our applications, does this maybe challenge the user experience? How do we get ahead of this problem?

ROBB BOYD: Well I think there's a couple things to keep in mind, and I believe this is my whiteboard debut here. So let's take a look. First of all, where a lot of people focus is this notion of optimization. In fact, we focus a lot on optimization, because there's a lot of neat stuff to talk about here, and we'll talk about that a lot today as well. The other thing, though, to consider as an equally important leg, is this notion of availability.

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