“Cloud Computing”, the latest buzzword in IT services that has made key decision makers to think about adopting cloud computing services for their organizational needs. Are you one of them? If yes, then we can help you in finding whether your decision for moving to cloud is worthy of the efforts and cost involved or not.

While deciding to adopt cloud computing, two main factors to consider are: Selecting the right application to be put on cloud and selecting the right vendor.

First of all, not all applications are suitable for cloud computing environment. Generally it’s not a good idea to put applications of below nature over cloud:

• Mission critical applications like ERP & MIS that are used by more than 80% workforce in organization
• Real-time application with huge uptime requirements
• Business critical & highly secure data centric applications like applications for banking & financial sector

While some of the situations where adopting cloud computing services become a boon for your business can be put together as:

• Smaller or rapidly growing or cash-strapped businesses that require dynamic compute capabilities
• For making IT infrastructure available on-demand without any management headaches
• Lack of people internally to upgrade and maintain the software
• You like to avoid infrastructure, hardware and maintenance cost for hosting application that isn’t high performance; data access in/out is minimal; and, loss of access to isn’t critical like e-mailing application or CRM
• When you need on-demand infrastructure availability on a 24/7 basis

Now, the major factors driving the selection of right vendor includes:

• Pricing & total cost over the retention period of the data
• Information security & data protection levels provided by vendor
• Performance and latency criteria like application response time, transactions per second, and monthly downtime
• Data auditing & backup policies offered by the service provider
• Scalability of resources provided by vendor
• The vendor contract should involve a clause for service credits if the SLA isn’t met
• Financial stability and reliability for the service provider
• Existing customer base
• The level of O&M and help desk provided by the cloud vendor

If you are still confused about whether cloud computing is the right choice for you, we at Rightway are here to serve you and help you in finding the right solution for you. We will listen to your requirements and analyze all aspects of opting for a cloud computing environment for your application before arriving at the right solution for you. So come and take advantage of our cloud computing consultancy & service.

We know, you seek continuous maintenance, upgradation, improvements and SEO related work on your online store and it’s really hard to outsource these small tasks and even more difficult to find developer every time for these small tasks.

Understanding such needs of our clients, Rightway is introducing the new offering of hiring dedicated webmaster for your online stores on monthly basis.  In this model, webmaster works dedicated for you for entire month, will be ready for any assignment you may have in your store viz. new payment gateway integration , SEO friendly URL configuration , XML data feed, product import & export , website theme/skinning related work, adding new functionalities or customization in existing functionalities.

We can provide you webmaster who is highly experienced in the technology in which your store is developed, whether it’s in Core PHP or any open source PHP solution like Magento, Zen Cart, X-cart, osCommerce and VirtueMart, so they can work on a quick note and deliver efficiently.

So, if you are looking a full time webmaster for your store(s), please contact us, we will provide you the best option for your needs.

Don’t worry, it is very common situation, At Rightway we see dilemma with every 2 out of 5 clients. So let me share our experience in resolving this confusion which we gathered through lots of brainstorming sessions with our clients.

The very first step is writing your requirements which you are looking to have in your system in a document, also note down the requirements which are surly coming to your way in short span of time. Once the document is ready, start exploring the available ready-made solutions which are fits closer to your requirements or are of similar nature. While exploring ready-made solutions, not only evaluate it from requirements point of view but also analyze its market place, size of community, developer community, application architecture, ability for third party application integration and extensibility for custom requirement. If 80% of your requirements match with the selected ready-made solution and rest of the criteria are fulfilled, then you can go for the ready-made solution. Opting for ready-made solutions is very common for E-commerce and CMS kind of application requirements or if you have standard CRM system requirement. Joomla, WordPress and Drupal are very popular CMS while X-Cart, Zen Cart , osCommerce and Magento are very famous open source e-commerce solutions which cater all most every e-commerce requirement.

Benefits of ready-made over tailor-made solutions:

If your requirement is very specific to your business and huge customizations are required in the available ready-made solutions to meet your requirements, then it’s better to go for a tailor-made solution.

Benefits of tailor-made over ready-made solutions:

This write-up is totally based on our years of experience and I tried honestly to put all points without any bias.  I hope it helps you in your planning & decision making for any software application development requirement.

Please feel free to contact Rightway, if you need any consultancy in the matter, our experts will help you out.

Recently Microsoft Live Labs has launched a free web based service called Zoom.it. It is a great service for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery. It is very simple to use.

As an input, It takes the URL of any hosted image on the website and convert that image to the Deep Zoom format.  Deep Zoom is the fastest, smoothest, zooming technology on the Web, bringing the highest resolution images (no matter how large like 6874×4888 or so) with the lowest load times to users. It gives new experience to explore the image smoothly and efficiently without compromising with image quality.

And as an output this service provides a short URL of hosted version of that image (as a spate image page) which you can share on any social networking website like Twitter & also provide a small JavaScript code which you embed into any web page.

For Developers who want to use this service in their real time application and want to customize it as per their needs, Zoom.it can be accessed through a web API which offers both RESTful and non-RESTful behavior. It supports both XML and JSON (as well as JSONP) to make it easy to use across a variety of platforms.

To know more about this serice visit their website http://zoom.it/

Nowadays Social media is playing a vital role to drive traffic on websites. According to latest internet traffic analysis, social media drives up to 33% of the traffic as search. So say a site gets 100,000 unique visitors per month from search, they’re also getting 33,000 from social networks.

So it is clear that social media can increase website traffic dramatically and can play a good role to increase your business.

To get benefit of social media, first you need to improve your social engagement by doing actively participation on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc… and second, allow your website’s user to share your website contents with their friend across social networks, affiliates groups and communities.

Further in this article we will dig out how we can allow website’s users to share contents with their friends.

The big complexity is that there are hundreds of social networking websites, which people are using for sharing information. Now if we integrate all of them into our website, so website user can share website content on their preferred network, then it would be a big, time consuming and costly job. So is there any option available which cover all popular social networks and easy to integrate & free of cost? Yes, the answer is ShareThis button.

ShareThis provides users with a simple, free of cost and easy way to implement sharing on any site via email, Twitter, Facebook and 40+ other social services. The better sharing integration, the more users will share your content and increase socially-referred traffic and engagement

ShareThis shows up on the page as a simple button or link, and clicking on it, user can send content to to Digg, Facebook, MySpace.com, or any number of related social applications.

ShareThis supports an additional JavaScript API for developers that need more control over what is being shared. It provides programmatic control of display options and supports a function based interface. It is for advanced use when you plan to:

- Share something more than just a single web page (e.g. image, video, etc.)
- Change the default object properties
- Share multiple objects on a single web page.

We have integrated ShareThis for many of clients and they are enjoying to have this on their website. Its really worth to add this small button and enjoy the increament of socially-referred traffic.

Please check out the snaps of design’n'buy team wearing the t-shirts designed and purchased online from inktheshirt.com

Design studio available at inktheshirt.com has been developed by design’n'buy team.

We wanted to do a live test of our own work hence we designed t-shirts for our own development team and ordered them online. Our client dispatched the t-shirts from USA last week. It was really a winning moment for our team to see the successful end result of our development efforts.