Compuware Gomez Offers Free Cross-Device Website Compatibility Test

With more than 17,000 registrants , VMworld 2010 is the largest and most successful VMworld ever . No surprise , as we know that the virtualization wave keeps growing and growing – Servers, network, storage, desktops, virtualization is everywhere – And Cisco with a close partnership with VMware is definitely at the cutting  edge of this wave with a lot of significant innovations and a tied integration between the two companies.

As a new  proof point, Cisco won a Best of VMworld 2010 award in the hardware virtualization category with the Cisco Nexus 7000 Overlay Transportation Virtualization  solution 

For  the last Cisco Daily Blogger Minute for VMworld 2010  I invited today our friends Stuart Miniman, Wikibon Senior Analyst  and VMware Ernesto Tey to join Cisco JMichel Metz to talk about the importance of the partner ecosystem that Cisco and VMware are creating and the results in terms of innovation, and integration 

In terms of innovations, and partnership between Cisco and VMware , here are a couple of  recent announcements from Cisco  that you want to consider 

At VMworld yesterday, Ed Bugnion introduced our Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) for Nexus 1000V, which led to an avalanche of questions.  There is only so much you can do 140 characters at a time, so I thought this might work a bit better.  And, for those of you who weren’t at VMworld, here are answers to questions you didn’t even know you had.

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Jay Fleischman, who authors the LegalPracticePro Blog, recently had a blog post where he wished "Death to the Virtual Law Firm." His problem is not with the idea of lawyers practicing law over the Internet, but that the term "virtual" is confusing because it connotes that the lawyer really isn’t present. In reality, the virtual lawyer is very present as the producer of legal services, perhaps even more so than a traditional lawyer, because there is the potential for 24/7 accessibility.

He argues that this term confuses the consuming public and potential clients.

In my opinion, the idea of a "virtual law firm"  is becoming a way of describing a law firm that delivers legal services in a new and innovative way. The average consumer whose purchasing behaviour  has changed because of the proliferation of non-lawyer web sites on the Internet, such as LegalZoom, understands very well that when a law firm uses the terms, "virtual" or "online" that the firm is offering a service that is often more reasonably priced, more convenient to use, and often delivered at a faster response time than is usual.  Our market research shows that when consumers see the term "virtual law firm", that it means that a law firm is willing to offer legal services in a non-traditional way, usually  "unbundled legal services," and at a fixed price.

Sometimes a term moves into common usage with unanticipated consequences and a different meaning than its common meaning.  For law firms offering online legal services, this is a way for them to differentiate themselves from law firms that offer legal services in a traditional office setting who eschew digital methods.

It is a marketing message that is powerful, because at the present time there are very few lawyers who have learned to harness the power of the Internet to increase their productivity and keep their prices affordable. "Virtual lawyering" communicates a message to consumers that this is not your "grandparents" law firm.

I doubt that consumers think that a virtual lawyer is someone who is just an avatar in http://www.secondlife.com. At some point in the future, delivering legal services online will become common. At the present time it is not, and the online law firms, that use this moniker, are trying to differentiate themselves from from the rest of the pack. There are very few law firms reaching out to the broad middle class with affordable legal services and too few law firms using the Internet as a platform for the delivery of legal services. "Virtual law firms" represent a new category of law firm that are reaching out to a "latent" market of consumers with a new value proposition.

Because the method of delivering legal services over the Internet is shaped by technology, and the underlying technology needs to be carefully examined and evaluated in terms of whether legal services delivered online are ethically compliant, it is useful to be able to treat this activity as a separate category, at least for the purpose of discussion.

Perhaps in the future, lawyers who deliver legal services over the Internet will refer to themselves as "digital lawyers", or "Online Lawyers", and these terms will become synonyms for "virtual lawyers".  For now, the label, "Virtual law firm" and "Virtual lawyers" is a useful way of framing this emerging activity so its benefits and deficiencies can be further examined. Without precision in definition, it is easy for any lawyer who works from home, and who never sees a client face to face, and who simply uses email, to call themselves a "virtual lawyer." 

I think that the Wikipedia definitions of a "virtual law firm" and "elawyering" , are useful as a starting point for understanding this new category of law firm. The only way to advance the "state of the art" is to recognize that the Internet as a platform for the delivery of legal services is something unique that requires careful examination and assessment. That exploration doesn’t get very far if we simply lump all law firms into the same category.

Compuware Gomez Publishes Industry’s First U.S. Retail Banking Website Performance Benchmark Index

A large crowd gathered again this morning under a blue sky in the Moscone Center in San Francisco to listen to VMware Paul Maritz and later in the morning Cisco Ed Bugnion key notes sessions for VMworld 2010 . Cisco Omar Sultan and Brian Gracely, as well as VMware Ernesto Tey  talked tonight about theses sessions,  the announcements made by both companies, including the Cisco Virtual Security Gateway , and the need for more sophisticated tools expressed by the customers

On the Cisco booth, located at the entrance of the exhibit Hall, the activities didn’t stop with an impressive series of presentations from customers such as General Electric and from Cisco partners 
Don’t hesitate  also  to stop by , to talk with the owners of the  19 demos that Cisco is presenting, as we did with Salomon Lopez who summarized for us  in one minute his solution : Related to the VMware announcement, Cisco was introducing  today the integration between VMware vCloud Services Director and the Cisco Nexus 1000V- 

Our favorite bloggers are back for a new Cisco Daily Blogger Techminute  . Cisco Omar Sultan and Brian Gracely shared today their first impressions on VMworld2010 with VMware Ernesto Tey

This fist day at VMworld has been extremely busy for our speaker team, but also  on the booth (#801) with a lot of interesting demos

In my previous blog, I briefly introduced Cisco Services’s unique LifeCycle Services Methodology (http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/437/services/lifecycle/LifecycleServicesWhitePaper.pdf) and talked about how Cisco’s Advanced Services Data Center Practice follows this unique methodology and practices to support the evolution of networks to business systems and ensure the most return from their IT investments. This LifeCycle Services Methodology helps customers Plan, Build and Run their IT infrastructure and the approach defines the minimum set of activities needed, by technology and by network complexity, to help customers successfully deploy and operate Cisco technologies and optimize their performance.

 Today, let me walk you through in detail about the Lifecycle services methodology and how these phases help our customers get Ready, Better and Smarter as their IT infrastructure evolves.

 Cisco services are built and delivered around the network lifecycle consisting of the following phases:  Prepare, Plan, Design, Implement, Operate, and Optimize.  Each phase consists of its own distinct characteristics and purpose and each service developed inside Cisco by its Product Management (Advanced Services and Technical Services) team maps to one or more of these phases. These services are offered as a standard packaged offering or a customized offering to tailor each customer’s unique requirement.

Compuware Gomez Publishes New White Paper “Thriving in a Multi-Browser World”

As a result of an intense and close collaboration, Cisco and VMware provide innovative and integrated solutions specifically designed for virtualization. So no surprise that Cisco is a Global Diamond sponsor of the VMworld 2010 in San Francisco this week 

If you want more details on Cisco participation at VMworld , please visit our event page  

Amongst the exciting conferences, you don’t want to miss Ed Bugnion presentation at the super session on Tuesday at 11:00 am

Here is a series of other conferences organized by Cisco today, and Wednesday