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

JIMMY RAY PURSER: Hey Valerie, how are you?

VALERIE ST JOHN: Good, our focus today, the dawn of the new data center. Now in the past you guys have maligned the use of the word of unified as overused, but this time's different, this is huge right?

ROBB BOYD: It really is different. In fact one of the things that I think is going to become very important to this show is that we understand that there's a true paradigm shift, I don't think that's a term that's been abused in a long time. But there's very real technology that backs up why unified, if you were to pick any word to try to describe the level of innovation and such that we're going to be talking about here, that is one that describes it very well. And so I think it's important and there's real technology to back it up.

VALERIE ST JOHN: Just to make sure that I understand this a little bit. Let's take it back, let's talk about the history here. What's been the evolution in the data center, what's changed?

ROBB BOYD: Well a lot has changed in the sense that if you go back far enough, you look at we had mainframe days where everything was centrally contained. Then as intelligence got put into the endpoints, we put those in the hands of users, we lost a lot of control but we gained a lot of things and we took that same PC model that developed out of that and we've attempted to bring it back into the data center. But there's been problems from that because we've got a PC model that's really not built to handle the stresses that we're putting data centers under now. And so you know a lot of innovation has been attempted to bring that under control but fundamentally it's been the same thing attempted over and over again, when in reality perhaps we can look at it a different way and that's just something we'll talk about in this moment, but could we do it differently?

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