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Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: Your Servers Are in Tseung Kwan O. Who Actually Goes to the Cage?

September 01, 2026 | 15 min

Your Servers Are in Tseung Kwan O. Who Actually Goes to the Cage?

A composite scenario from Hong Kong's brokerage world: two racks in Tseung Kwan O, a four-person technology team, and no documented answer to who goes to the cage on a Sunday night. The five operational jobs a colocation contract leaves behind, and how to assign each one.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: How to Screen IT Hardware Vendors for Supply-Chain Risk Using Grok

August 19, 2026 | 11 min

How to Screen IT Hardware Vendors for Supply-Chain Risk Using Grok

A repeatable AI-assisted vendor screen for IT hardware purchases: the four risks a price comparison never shows, where real-time X signal helps and misleads, a worked two-vendor example, and the verification rule.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: End-to-End Spare Parts Management for a Global Hardware-Maintenance Leader: A 10-Year Warehouse-and-Field Partnership Across Greater China and Singapore

July 20, 2026 | 15 min

End-to-End Spare Parts Management for a Global Hardware-Maintenance Leader: A 10-Year Warehouse-and-Field Partnership Across Greater China and Singapore

A 10-year success story: how Brocent's integrated warehouse-as-a-service and field-engineer model delivers end-to-end spare parts management and same-business-day SLAs for a leading global third-party hardware-maintenance provider across 10 China cities, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.