That is why I was happy today when I saw that Bradford & Barthel, a California firm, started using Google Apps as their Document Management system. Being a pioneer most of the time pays out.
Good luck Bradford & Barthel on their new endeavour.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Law Firms on the Cloud -- Are they Ready?
I have been working with Law Firms for the last 2 years. As a baselines Law firms are interested, yet doubtful of the Cloud Benefits. Our firm works hard and smart to proposed the best technology solutions for law firms, allowing them to focus on their business, decrease cost and drive profits.
That is why I was happy today when I saw that Bradford & Barthel, a California firm, started using Google Apps as their Document Management system. Being a pioneer most of the time pays out.
Good luck Bradford & Barthel on their new endeavour.
That is why I was happy today when I saw that Bradford & Barthel, a California firm, started using Google Apps as their Document Management system. Being a pioneer most of the time pays out.
Good luck Bradford & Barthel on their new endeavour.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google App Engine Compared
Is the graph below accurate or Google Insights has some bias. I have deploy applications in all Cloud System, and I tend to agree with the graphs. There are reasons why GAE has more benefits than AWS and Azure.
Enjoy the Graph below:
Enjoy the Graph below:
Friday, November 20, 2009
The Cloud World is Here, Welcome Chrome OS
Introduction
Finally, Google Chrome OS is here. Welcome to the era of the cloud. Keeping privacy aside (a much broader and difficult topic), in a few years all computers will be just a thin client of the internet. Is fantastic how you can open notepad on Google Chrome OS and all you type there is immediately on the Cloud. As this feature there are many other features that will be main stream in a few months.
Interesting Video
Enjoy Clouding, and Thanks for sticking around. Your comments are always welcome.
Finally, Google Chrome OS is here. Welcome to the era of the cloud. Keeping privacy aside (a much broader and difficult topic), in a few years all computers will be just a thin client of the internet. Is fantastic how you can open notepad on Google Chrome OS and all you type there is immediately on the Cloud. As this feature there are many other features that will be main stream in a few months.
Interesting Video
Enjoy Clouding, and Thanks for sticking around. Your comments are always welcome.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Website Spell Checkers, Commodity Service or Still a Premium
Hi Fellow Cloud Enthusiast,
I have been completely silent for the last two month due to a project and other things that have come up, but that does not mean that I have not been with my eyes open on all things happening on the cloud. I will post more on that later.
For now let's stay in topic. Sometime during last week I was looking for a good tool on the cloud that will give my client the ability to spell check their website in a easy, friendly and effective way. It was incredible to find out that the search or the decision was not easy. That make me think if online spell checking is a commodity or a premium service.
Below some of the best options currently out there.
Our Three contenders are:
INSPYDER - InSite
InSite is site-wide (site) spell checking and link validation tool. This tool requires an installation and it cost around $200 per licence or $50 for spell checking feature only. This tool gives out a nice report after the crawling completes. This is not a cloud (online website) tool, but it achieves the same as the others in this category. This type of tool have their market, I tend to stay away from them just because they need to be installed, they required to have an Internet connection at all time during the crawls, and there are some crawls that could take up to an hour depending on the size of your site.
This is a good options if your site is small, or if you are just checking a representative sample of your complete site.
Spell r US
Spell r US (site) is a rich Internet application that will check websites for spell errors. There pricing plan is simple and requires no contracts. They have pricing plans from 24/month to 900/month. Spell r US have some good features like custom dictionaries, word cloud, interactive help, and in the more expensive plans link checker as well. They seem to be the BMW of the online spell checking industry. I end up doing my project with them.
I have to say that they are the reason I think this is not a commodity as everyone else think to believe. This service can/will get very expensive if you use it on big websites, as much as $ 900 a month, but definitely check them out since they also have pre-paid plans.
Site Improve (site)
SiteCheck from SiteImprove is more than spell checking but I feel I have to keep them here since Spell R US also provide link checking and other features. This online tool brings to the table Link Checking, Spell Checking, Site Inventory and Accessibility. I got a trial account, and the first impression was that the User Interface needed some rearrangement. It was not easy for me to figure out how to get a printed report of the spell checking, actually I never found the printed report, I had to solve the spelling problems using their interface which was one of my clients requirement. I was moderately happy with the application, but the initial price proposal for our use was on the high side.
Opinion
From all three services evaluated the only service that has an export to CSV format feature is the Spellr.us, which will let us customize our reports. Also Spellr.us has a Broken Link/image feature and custom dictionary for law terms (Client Requirements). The service does not require a contract and can be used on demand. The cost to obtain the features to fulfill our requirement is $400 for a month of usage. That amount will allow us to scan up to 300 websites with no more than 10,000 pages each in a given month. We can discontinue the use of the service on the same month and wait another 3 months to activate it. Making the service around 100 dollars per month if you use only on specific months.
I hope you enjoy your spell checking process, and if you have comments or questions please go ahead and drop them here. As always enjoy your clouding!
I have been completely silent for the last two month due to a project and other things that have come up, but that does not mean that I have not been with my eyes open on all things happening on the cloud. I will post more on that later.
For now let's stay in topic. Sometime during last week I was looking for a good tool on the cloud that will give my client the ability to spell check their website in a easy, friendly and effective way. It was incredible to find out that the search or the decision was not easy. That make me think if online spell checking is a commodity or a premium service.
Below some of the best options currently out there.
Our Three contenders are:
INSPYDER - InSite
InSite is site-wide (site) spell checking and link validation tool. This tool requires an installation and it cost around $200 per licence or $50 for spell checking feature only. This tool gives out a nice report after the crawling completes. This is not a cloud (online website) tool, but it achieves the same as the others in this category. This type of tool have their market, I tend to stay away from them just because they need to be installed, they required to have an Internet connection at all time during the crawls, and there are some crawls that could take up to an hour depending on the size of your site.
This is a good options if your site is small, or if you are just checking a representative sample of your complete site.
Spell r US
Spell r US (site) is a rich Internet application that will check websites for spell errors. There pricing plan is simple and requires no contracts. They have pricing plans from 24/month to 900/month. Spell r US have some good features like custom dictionaries, word cloud, interactive help, and in the more expensive plans link checker as well. They seem to be the BMW of the online spell checking industry. I end up doing my project with them.
I have to say that they are the reason I think this is not a commodity as everyone else think to believe. This service can/will get very expensive if you use it on big websites, as much as $ 900 a month, but definitely check them out since they also have pre-paid plans.
Site Improve (site)
SiteCheck from SiteImprove is more than spell checking but I feel I have to keep them here since Spell R US also provide link checking and other features. This online tool brings to the table Link Checking, Spell Checking, Site Inventory and Accessibility. I got a trial account, and the first impression was that the User Interface needed some rearrangement. It was not easy for me to figure out how to get a printed report of the spell checking, actually I never found the printed report, I had to solve the spelling problems using their interface which was one of my clients requirement. I was moderately happy with the application, but the initial price proposal for our use was on the high side.
Opinion
From all three services evaluated the only service that has an export to CSV format feature is the Spellr.us, which will let us customize our reports. Also Spellr.us has a Broken Link/image feature and custom dictionary for law terms (Client Requirements). The service does not require a contract and can be used on demand. The cost to obtain the features to fulfill our requirement is $400 for a month of usage. That amount will allow us to scan up to 300 websites with no more than 10,000 pages each in a given month. We can discontinue the use of the service on the same month and wait another 3 months to activate it. Making the service around 100 dollars per month if you use only on specific months.
I hope you enjoy your spell checking process, and if you have comments or questions please go ahead and drop them here. As always enjoy your clouding!
Monday, August 31, 2009
Amazon CloudWatch finally becomes Usable
Today Amazon released the Console for CloudWatch. Allowing all EC2 users to obtain valuable information of their instances without further installing other applications on the instances. This step was necessary, useful and it was the only way of actually justifying the need to pay for the CloudWatch service. The Amazon people have placed a blog post with nice pictures that you can see if you click here.
Thanks for staying around and as always keep your clouding happy!!!
Thanks for staying around and as always keep your clouding happy!!!
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
No More Excuses for Enterprises to adopt the Cloud
I am just very exited about the new VPC offering of EC2. This feature starts the new crash of the titans for Cloud Computing. Where Enterprise Data Centers, with millions of dollars and super expensive IT infrastructures collides with the Cloud Computing.
There are no more excuses now. No lengthy process to purchase a server, or to test a new service from your data center. With the VPC offering you can get a new server and make it part of your data center with a VPN connection. Your migration process is easier now.
All of you that want to test the cloud against your real infrastructure, just bring it in with VPC and enjoy the benefits without compromising too much.
I will like to hear from people actually testing this new VPC feature, please leave your comments or send me an email to geo [at] readytocloud.com I will really appreciate it.
Thanks and keep clouding!!!
There are no more excuses now. No lengthy process to purchase a server, or to test a new service from your data center. With the VPC offering you can get a new server and make it part of your data center with a VPN connection. Your migration process is easier now.
All of you that want to test the cloud against your real infrastructure, just bring it in with VPC and enjoy the benefits without compromising too much.
I will like to hear from people actually testing this new VPC feature, please leave your comments or send me an email to geo [at] readytocloud.com I will really appreciate it.
Thanks and keep clouding!!!
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