Guppers, Inc. Announces Public Beta of Guppers Cloud at Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2009

Los Angeles, CA., Nov 17, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) --
MSFT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Guppers today announced that it has released public beta of Guppers Cloud (http://www.guppers.com) which runs on Windows Azure. This new service provides business customers with a quick and easy way to get their business operations on the cloud. With Windows Azure as its backbone platform, Guppers can now offer the benefits of cloud computing such as reduced total cost of ownership, high availability, cost elasticity and quicker time to market.

To gain the benefits of Microsoft technologies like Windows Azure, Guppers joined the Microsoft BizSpark program, which was designed especially for startup companies. The BizSpark program provided Guppers with access to software, support, and a rich, vibrant ecosystem of peers, partners, and support resources around the globe."Guppers was able to reduce upfront hardware costs by utilizing Windows Azure through the Microsoft BizSpark program," said Prashant Ketkar, senior director of product marketing for Windows Azure at Microsoft Corp. "By reducing costs and increasing speed to market, Guppers has been able to implement its Guppers Cloud and bring early adopters more benefits including scalability and reduced costs."

Additionally with Guppers Cloud, customers will be able to:
Access company data on the cloud from devices such as mobile phones or browsers. Leverage existing IT infrastructure. Guppers cloud requires no additional software installation on servers, clients or phones and takes minutes to setup. Secure conversations, documents and data based on organizational policy settings. Bridge cloud data and enterprise data via a simple standard protocol. The integration process takes hours instead of weeks.
"The faster time-to-market that we got with BizSpark and Windows Azure are crucial to our success. It gives us an important competitive advantage, and it helps provide consistent and reliable services to early adopters around the world," said Andy Harjanto, Co-Founder of Guppers. "Running a business service requires data redundancies, high data and network availability that typically need large capital investment and high operating costs. Fortunately, Windows Azure provides all these in a cost effective manner offering savings that we can pass to our customers ". By having data accessible on the cloud, our customers have reported immediate benefits. "With Guppers, we can now coordinate closely with overseas recruitment centers and cut down application processing time by 30%" said Michele Hsu, the President of IAA, in NYC, New York. Others use Guppers Cloud to updates data in a remote area where there is no internet connectivity. "Our drivers use SMS to update delivery status, and the management team can view the most up-to-date information from browser or even from a feature phone" said Fikhri Abdul Rahman, G-Planter Chairman in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Interestingly, Guppers team which spans across the world, uses Guppers to track all work items, customer feedback and to send messages between team members and external partners.

Guppers Pricing will be available in January 2010.

Additional information about Guppers Cloud can be found at http://guppers.com/LearnMore.aspx

About Guppers
Guppers believes in providing easy, accessible and affordable platform solutions for businesses around the world. Guppers primarily focuses on mobility, cloud computing and social computing technologies to offer low-cost, high valued and anywhere access solutions. With mobility, it allows employees, partners, customers to participate in the business activities on the go, while cloud computing provides cost-effective, reliable solutions around the world. Social computing technology boosts productivities by encouraging more transparency among team members. For more information, visit http://www.guppers.com

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Andy Harjanto, Guppers, Inc., (425) 283-2164

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