IT Insights
中国区 IT 洞察
聚焦中国企业 IT 外包与出海战略，覆盖等保合规、信创国产化、跨境协同和海外分支 IT 支持实践。
September 11, 2026 | 18 min
Five Days to Beijing: Destroying a China Office's Drives Without Shipping Them Out
A composite scenario: a foreign-invested group's China engineering centre retires ninety workstations and eleven servers, and its group process says ship the drives to Hong Kong. Why that one routing decision creates three separate problems, and why the destruction capability can travel instead.
September 11, 2026 | 18 min
The Number That Made Them Look Temporary: A 400 Hotline for a China Office
A composite scenario: a European instruments maker's sixty-person China office runs on twelve personal mobile numbers with no switchboard, and starts losing tenders on the after-sales line of the scorecard. Why a 400 hotline is an entity question rather than a technical one, and why the real gap was governance, not telephony.
September 11, 2026 | 17 min
Android Without Google: Managing Devices for a Foreign Company's China Staff
A composite scenario: a European group extends its three-year-old global MDM standard to a 70-person China office, and Android enrolment simply never completes. Why China-market Android breaks the Android Enterprise model, what a China-specific enrolment path actually requires, and why the licence was never the missing piece.
September 10, 2026 | 18 min
IT Support in Beijing for a Foreign Insurer's Office: The Evidence Test
A composite scenario: a foreign insurance group's licensed Beijing entity passes every day-to-day IT check and fails the one that matters at audit time - can it show access, patch and data-location records for policyholder data.
September 03, 2026 | 18 min
IT Support in China for a Software Vendor's Two Offices
A European software vendor's only Asia presence is a Shanghai head office and a Beijing sales office - what full-scope IT support in China actually has to cover beyond a global ticket queue, and where a one-standard-fits-all approach quietly breaks down.
September 02, 2026 | 15 min
The Livestream That Couldn't Go Down
A composite scenario from Hangzhou: 45 people running a European brand's Tmall, JD and Douyin storefronts, with no local IT and a calendar dominated by 618 and 11.11. Why peak-shaped risk needs pre-positioned capacity rather than a permanent hire.
August 10, 2026 | 14 min
IT Support for Foreign Manufacturers' China Plant Floors
Why office IT support fails on a China production line, and what proper plant-floor coverage — network design, MES/ERP support, and P1 on-site response — actually looks like.
August 08, 2026 | 14 min
On-Site IT Staffing for a Brazilian Manufacturer's Shenzhen Operations
Grounded in a real Brocent client relationship: how a Brazil-headquartered global manufacturer resolved remote-only IT support gaps with resident on-site IT staff in Shenzhen.
August 08, 2026 | 14 min
Managed IT for a US Financial Firm's Japan, Korea and China Offices
Grounded in a real Brocent client relationship: how a US-headquartered financial services firm consolidated IT across its Tokyo, Seoul, and China offices under one managed standard.
August 04, 2026 | 14 min
What Drives Data Center Costs in China: 2026 Guide
No public China IDC price list exists. This guide breaks down the real cost drivers - regional power, land/construction, redundancy tier, and licensing overhead - and contrasts them with Brocent's own published managed IT and cloud pricing.