The CANDIS Group's News Desk

China ICP FAQ

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:06:33 +0000

There seems to be a lot of confusion and old information floating around about what is or isn’t an ICP may be and what is needed to get one and then as announced today – additional steps needed during the actual application process.

All the relevant information is summarised here. ICP like all regulations in China is an opaque topic and can’t be summarised into a bullet point list. So please read the links below to become fully educated.

CANDIS Establishes First U.S.-Europe-Asia Hybrid Cloud Offering Partnership

admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:18:11 +0000

Technology outsourcing clients CANDIS Group select Voxel for cloud computing and content delivery services for greater global reach

For Immediate Release

NEW YORK/EWORLDWIRE/Aug. 6, 2009 — Today Voxel, the global leader in Internet infrastructure services including managed hosting, content delivery and cloud computing, announced agreements with Beijing-based CANDIS Group LTD for use of its cloud computing and content delivery network (CDN) services in Asia.

After going live with its first Asian Point of Presence (POP) in Singapore in May 2009, Voxel pursued an Asian client acquisition strategy that first targeted companies that offer services in the technology outsourcing market. CANDIS Group, which provides IT management and business outsourcing for global companies operating in China, fall within this natural audience for Voxel, working with both U.S. and European clients and can thus benefit from the global on-demand hybrid cloud, CDN and dedicated hosting services Voxel provides.

“We’re excited to be on the forefront of providing global infrastructure and one of the first cloud and CDN providers in Asia,” said Zachary Smith, president of Voxel. “With Voxel’s network and hosting products in the three major worldwide markets, our customers can dramatically enhance their services and reach while remaining confident that they have a single, highly experienced vendor to call for support.”

According to David van Meerendonk, Vice President and Sales Director of CANDIS, the partnership with Voxel as its infrastructure partner will be extremely valuable to bring the company’s “gateway with China” products and services to a global audience. CANDIS will immediately leverage dedicated and virtual servers via Voxel’s Hosting API, which allows companies to easily access all Voxel hosting offerings via a standards-based API.

In May 2009, following its success in the United States and Europe with on-demand computing and delivery products, Voxel launched the Asian node of its VoxCAST CDN and private cloud computing beta in Singapore. The company will launch its cloud service publicly on at least two continents in mid-August.

About Voxel dot Net Inc.

Voxel (‘http://www.voxel.net‘) delivers high-performance Internet infrastructure that is scalable, fully-supported and cost-effective. From powering the Internet’s top video sites, blogs, and high traffic Web sites, to delivering computing resources on-demand for horizontally scalable applications, Voxel offers unparalleled global expertise in hosting infrastructure, managed services, CDN services and cloud computing.

About CANDIS Group LTD

CANDIS (‘http://www.candisgroup.com‘) delivers full life-cycle IT solutions to worldwide clients while bridging the gap to the local Chinese market. CANDIS is the de-facto choice when multinational corporations want to establish a footprint in China and currently services a range of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to small start-ups. The CANDIS Group’s founders have over 40 years of IT and business experience in China.

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As Chinese PC sales decline, CANDIS sees opportunity

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:19:18 +0000

Large Chinese equipment manufacturers feel the pressures of the global financial crisis, seeing PC sales plummeting. The world’s fourth largest PC vendor recorded a loss of US$264 million for its fiscal fourth quarter ended March, following a US$96.7 million loss for the previous quarter. Its worldwide PC shipments declined 8.2 percent year on year due to sluggish demand from corporate consumers. CANDIS Group, an IT services firm whose business also involves the procurement of IT hardware has also seen the effects. However, due to the uniqueness of their service offerings opportunity presents itself.

“Throughout the last year, I have seen more and more companies going to “complete solution” technologies that offer the benefits of the software without the expense of the hardware.” said David van Meerendonk, Sales Director of the CANDIS Group. CANDIS Group places importance on delivering a solution to customers with end results as the driving factor of functionality. Especially with the Thin Client solutions, customers can realize a longer life for hardware and a much lower cost for maintenance. These types of new IT solutions are what drives the CANDIS Group and puts their offerings at the forefront of both the technical and functional aspects of an appropriate IT infrastructure.

“Not only do we strive to make IT easier for our customers, we want to make it cheaper and more readily accessible,” said Richard Ford, CANDIS Group CTO. “We also think that it is our responsibility to incorporate Green ideas into our technical solutions.” CANDIS has already sold and managed multiple IT solutions with low cost and on an environmentally friendly basis.

China boosts domestic consumption

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:39:54 +0000

As exports from China lessen due to global economic uncertainty, China looks inwards to its own population and corporations to fund the rapid country growth seen since the mid-eighties.

As said in a FTchina forum “Retail sales have held up much better in China this year than in other big economies, growing at a real 15.9 percent in March year-on-year. But more important than the overall trend is the composition of the retail spending.

The most robust consumer spending figures are coming from inland and lower-tier cities rather than from the traditional growth powerhouses clustered around the Yangtze and Pearl river deltas. A China confidential survey assessing consumer spending intentions among an estimated 64m middle and upper income households in 189 cities in March showed a much higher propensity to spend in lower-tier cities.”

This type of inward spending opens a new window for non-Chinese companies to begin to push sales to China rather than the traditional manufacturing/export methods of the past. With this new market for the world to sell to deeper issues of China’s communication infrastructure begin to surface. How to get the Chinese population to view your products and begin spending their money with you? In the past, a Chinese language section of a company’s website has sufficed as a passive selling opportunity. However, today we see more and more companies building and hosting their sites in or near China due to the quirky Internet access and also due to Internet censorship issues. The CANDIS Groups’ strong position in the Chinese IT industry has allowed the CANDIS Group to grow a high end IT infrastructure from within the country in expectance of this turnaround in consumer trends. Effectively, the CANDIS Group is the bridge between the west and China vis-a-vis connectivity, access and hosting solutions. “We are fortunate that our infrastructure was built with this global picture in mind as now is the time for the world to take an interest in the buying power of Chinese people” says Richard Ford, CANDIS Group’s CTO.

CANDIS Group’s commitment to Green IT continues

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:43:27 +0000

In continuing to place importance on the well being of our global environment, the CANDIS Group continues to promote Thin Client networks as a cleaner and more efficient way of handling common office networks, workflow and storage tasks. A thin client (sometimes also called a lean or slim client) is a client interface computer in a client-server architecture network which depends primarily on the central server for processing tasks normally run directly on a user PC, and instead focuses on conveying input and output between the user and the remote server.

The CANDIS Group has recently architected, designed and implemented the largest of its Thin Client Networks to date for a company in the Gas exploration and drilling industry. This installation has effectively cut the electricity bill related to IT by 72.27% for the company, and that is not counting indirect costs like reductions in heat overhead, etc. By thinking outside the box, the company has reduced their Carbon Footprint, consistent with global needs for a greener business approach to planning and investments.

Thin Client Networks have been a focus of the CANDIS Group for over one year and have already proven cost effective for the clients. Additionally, this concept of a cleaner environment is consistent with policies in China where even in the Coal Industry, China is out-pacing the rest of the world in its efforts for cleaner forms of existing and new energy sources, according to a recent New York Times article.

CANDIS Group Limited grows in China

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:45:05 +0000

CANDIS Group Limited (“CANDIS”) is an IT solutions company established in late 2005 with its corporate headquarters in Hong Kong SAR, CANDIS is currently growing its global network and IDC footprint around the world, building a web of interconnected servers that shall acts as a primary gateway to China from abroad.

CANDIS’ founders have had their feet on the ground in China through China’s rapid socio-economic expansion over the past two decades and accurately predicted its introduction onto the world stage by the mid-nineties. Recognizing the need for small and medium sized companies to have an IT gateway to China; an on-line portal accessible to Chinese business partners and clients alike, CANDIS was establishing operational footprints in China by mid-2006, allowing rapid growth in a market that has shown unprecedented expansion in the past decade.

China has now passed the US in terms of number of users getting online, with over 300 million “netizens”. Of these, a vast majority is broadband users and more are added every day. CANDIS’ early introduction to China now allows CANDIS’ infrastructure to be an integral part of this growth, and CANDIS is currently reaping the benefits of this first mover advantage, seeing steady growth on a monthly basis even in a shaky world economy.