http://blog.guppers.com Text :) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:57:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last month was a really busy month for us.  We migrated our system to Azure,  and we turned on the switch to all our of customers' databases to point to Azure in early November.  Then we get an invitation from Microsoft to participate in a few activities at Microsoft PDC (Professional Developer Conferences) 09 in Los Angeles.  The first day of the ... http://blog.guppers.com/2009/12/guppers-news-from-microsoft-pdc-09/ On Nov 7, 12:55 AM GMT, we completed a full migration to Azure. The system was down for a few minutes, and up again, and now is pointing to Azure data center.  We're running two instances of Web Role, one instance of Worker Role, utilizing Azure Blob heavily, as well ... http://blog.guppers.com/2009/11/guppers-now-runs-on-azure/ Cloud Computing is one of transformational technology shifts which recently gains momentum. As the economy suffers in the past years, business started looking at ways to reduce costs and boost the productivity.  There are so much buzz about Cloud Computing, I’ll try to explain in much simpler term as possible, ... http://blog.guppers.com/2009/10/how-your-business-can-take-advantage-of-cloud-computing/ Consider these staggering statistics: 3.4 billion text messages are delivered, and 4 billion cell-phones are actively in the hand of subscribers, and the growth is still very healthy. What interesting is the usage of texting in business is very limited, if any, especially in the US. While younger generations in ... http://blog.guppers.com/2009/08/texting-in-business-the-possibilities-are-endless/ Yes, it has been a while since we update our blog.  There is a lot of happening since then.  Well, for a start, the economy meltdown happened in Fall 2008 and unfortunately still continues. In the meantime, we received plenty of feedback on our first iteration of Guppers (or we ... http://blog.guppers.com/2009/06/new-guppers-is-re-born/ Today, Guppers is open for a limited public beta testing for Asia and Europe.  Thanks to many of you who participated in private beta testings, also for those who signed up for public beta notifications.  We've been using Guppers for quite sometimes internally as well, and we're excited to share it with you.  ... http://blog.guppers.com/2008/09/were-live/ (For a 60 second introduction to Guppers, please click here) Well, it has been a few weeks since our last post. We had been busy preparing to go live.  One of our release live criteria was to use Guppers day to day.  We use it heavily at work, and personally I use it  ... http://blog.guppers.com/2008/09/guppers-in-action-my-family-scenario/ Hi Beta Testers, Thank you for your interest. We regret to inform you that the service is not ready at this point. Please check our site or blog frequently for the latest update & development. We will be back soon in a short while and stay tuned! Guppers Team http://blog.guppers.com/2008/08/the-engine-is-about-to-start-stay-toned/ With the advancement of technology, the world is increasingly connected, complex, compressed in time and space. Communication to the other side of the world can be done a few clicks away and we no longer tolerate waiting for a response in days; more often than not, we expect instantaneous answers. ... http://blog.guppers.com/2008/07/entering-life-as-a-gupper/ Well, it started out from here: Then, it evolved into this: Anyway, based on what is defined in couple of urban dictionaries, we can sort of sum up Guppers as Yes, Happy, and a Big Family. So, it is very much what we have been trying to do. We ... http://blog.guppers.com/2008/07/really-what-is-guppers/