ChinaCache HPCC Platform Assisting Cloud Service Transformation

The development of Internet and mobile Internet has given rise to heavyweight Internet companies one by one and a large number of mobile Internet applications. The extended diversified applications, a variety of terminals, across-network access, complex network environment, and the increase of user expectation in network quality all set higher requirements on CDN service. In the face of the next wave Blue Ocean in the CDN market, how to realize scale operations and how to assist customers to make fast distribution with rapid delivery service system in rapidly changing Internet age are huge challenges in the development of the CDN industry.

ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, has taken technology research and development as its first competitive strength, constantly leading the industry’s technology improvements with proactive innovations, optimized services, and superior R&D team. In 2015, ChinaCache has officially launched its next generation of CDN basis core platform based on efficient cloud computing technology – HPCC (High Performance Cloud Cache) platform. The HPCC platform, thanks for its core functions such as distributed system, separated business storage, node resource pooling, content intelligent awareness, can increase its stability and availability by about 3%, improve response delay by 5% to 10%, greatly optimize the overall operating management efficiency, and improve delivery capacity.

The HPCC platform offers service for ChinaCache’s core business such as page viewing acceleration, file distribution and download, video streaming media, and mobile Internet, reducing customer resource costs, greatly improving user experience. Due to its more flexible caching mode and faster adaptability to changes, the HPCC platform can fully increase various performance indicators.

Cache clustering, saving customer cost

The HPCC platform features cache clustering, using personalized service of hierarchical caching. This can not only achieve sharing of all channel resources to ensure the balance of equipment flow by having each node resource utilization rate fluctuate by 10% at most, but also enable the number of single node file storage to exceed 1 billion, which means increasing access hit ratio by 20% and reducing back-to-source rate by over 10%. In this way, customer costs can be saved significantly.

High availability, fault tolerance against super faults

The HPCC platform offers high availability and high performance service. Its comprehensive time delay function and superior fault tolerance capacity, in the case of sudden burst of mass customer traffic, can respond quickly and with ease, to minimize negative effects on users due to some operations such as equipment downtime. At the same time, it can also make real-time tracking and analysis of user access hotspots and establish memory databases, to better analyze customer’s network demand, provide technical support for more diverse differentiated services of customers, and achieve great service and high quality.

Resource allocation optimization, achieving efficient management

    The HPCC platform carries out major node deployment through resource integration of original fragmented nodes, thus effectively improving major node input and output capability, and reducing network transmission pressure due to minor node congestion. At the same time, the HPCC platform integrates internal resources to achieve automation platform operation management and enhance output efficiency of each link. With comprehensive optimization deployment and resource allocation, the HPCC platform has greatly improved customer delivery capacity and service response speed.

The official launch of the HPCC platform is a significant step for ChinaCache to step into the CDN cloud era, also indicating that ChinaCache has thoroughly completed the transformation of its CDN cloud distribution platform, a successful turn around in the cloud era. ChinaCache will start its strategic cooperation with many enterprises in the cloud field through the HPCC platform, to have the complete solution applied in client side and provide more stable and efficient network operation service with its more flexible caching mode and faster adaptability to changes.

ChinaCache Cooperates with EverVC.com, Powering Start-ups up

Days ago, ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. (hereafter referred to as "ChinaCache") announced the establishment of its cooperating partenship with EverVC.com. Through this cooperation, ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content transmission and application in China, and EverVC.com, the professional start-up invested equity crowd-funding platform, will put together its supeiror technology and product, complete service, strong financial support and professional teams, to provide start-up companies with comprehensive supports.

The rapid development of information technology and Internet industry has resulted in the emergence of many start-up companies. It’s shown in recent reports from CB Insights consultancy agency that the investment scale of venture capital institutions for start-ups reached $47.3 billion in 2013. The total financing scale of startups increased by 62% in 2014, comparing to the previous year. Startup companies are becoming a new force in driving the development of social productivity.

The strategic cooperation between ChinaCache and EverVC.com will focus on the demands of startup entrepreneurs on professional technology, capital and backend service, to help them start smoothly and grow rapidly. Through this cooperation, ChinaCache will provide all the startup projects in EverVC platform with preferenital service price, to reduce technical capital threshold for the startups. At the same time, EverVC will recommend the entrepreneurial projects in its platform to use ChinaCache’s network acceleartion service, to provide these startups with low cost but high quality service, improve their website content access quality, and meet the demand of burst user traffic.

ChinaCache has been focusing on and promoting the development of Internet industry, with the concept of constantly creating more professional products and more quality services. Thanks for the attraction of EverVC.com towards enterprenuers in the Internet industry, ChinaCache will quickly target these industry companies of huge development potentials, help them to grow in a healthy way. The cooperation with EverVC.com will promote ChinaCache to grasp Internet forefront development pulse, to understand Internet development needs in the first place, make continuous research and development to improve solutions to adapt to new and rapid development of the industry, enhance ChinaCache’s core technical strength, and better adapt to the rapid development of future’s reInternet.

CDN, the Key to Game Industry Transformation

Online gaming is transforming dramatically towards mobile end, leading to huge business opportunities for game operators, while facing many issues such as a sudden increase of users, shortened product market cycle, high requirements for user experience, and high operating costs, making unprecedentedly higher requirements on product and technology. How to guarantee mobile game user experience? How to realize industry transformation? On April 2, 2015, Mr. Fu Liang, VP of ChinaCache, shared his view on how CDN can effectively support mobile game network operation in the Second China Game Operation Technology Innovation Conference held in Shanghai.

In recent years, there has seen a rapid growth in China's online game market, among which mobile game attracts much attention due to its explosive growth. According to Niko Partners, an independent research company, Chinese mobile game market reached RMB 18 billion in 2014, catching up with client-end games, showing an annual growth rate of 37.6% from 2013 to 2018. The mobile market in China is very likely to surpass the U.S. market in 2015.

Users of online games, especially those of mobile games, have higher demands on game system’s stability, loading speed and security performance. It’s shown in the Online Game User Experience Optimization Research Report released by ChinaCache that 45.9% of the users mentioned that they would abandon the game due to poor system stability of the game, while 41.7% of the users may stop the game because of slow loading speed of the game. The demand of user experience of mobile games needs to be fulfilled. In the meantime, CDN network acceleration service is facing more complex online environment, more comprehensive business demands and higher service requirements.

Opportunities always come with challenges. Therefore, ChinaCache has its online game integrated solution launched, which provides CDN content distribution, online live broadcasting service, big data management, content loading, user behavior analysis, and operational service. This solution can completely ensure compatibility, availability and security, and offer full service support in cooperating with comprehensive operating from service plan, service deployment to service operation, with full guarantee of high quality network environment. Furthermore, this solution uses ChinaCache’s dedicated bearer network across the whole country, offering flexible scheduling flow, providing acceleration for online games through nationwide CDN nodes.

In addition, aiming at mobile game features, this solution specially offers staged operation planning, from game preparation stage, localization stage, market validation stage, release stage to market maturity stage, providing overall online planning, cloud platform planning, to super-large file high speed exchanging, security guarantee solutions and products, achieving smooth transition in various mobile game development stages.

ChinaCache Has Passed Third Batch of Trusted Cloud Certification

Recently, the Data Center League issued a cloud service list for the third-batch of trusted cloud service certification. ChinaCache’s cloud service was accredited again with the cloud distributed certification.

In early 2014, ChinaCache’s cloud hosting and EBS cloud storage service already successfully passed strict examination on thirteen evaluation indexes such as durability, portability, privacy, availability, resource allocation capacity, and fault recovery capacity in terms of data storage, joining the first batch of trusted cloud service providers.

As China's leading total solutions provider of Internet content transmission, ChinaCache’s cloud computing service has been improving continuously from initial source station service to enterprise-grade market development, providing enterprises with high-quality trusted cloud service. ChinaCache, as early as 2009, began planning cloud services, among domestic first batch of cloud service providers in 2010. Its cloud host and block storage services obtained domestic first batch of trusted cloud service certification.

ChinaCache, with its rich CDN node resources and network deployment advantages, can offer a vast number of enterprise customers with one-stop IaaS service, fully covering radio & television, finance, education, energy, health care, government, network game, network media, and traditional manufacturing industries. To keep the leading position in industry development and meet more and more diversified market demands, ChinaCache’s cloud service, on the one hand, has been constantly improving its existing product functions, continuously launching cloud host, cloud storage, cloud monitoring, cloud backup, cloud security products on the basis of the existing products. On the other hand, integrated with comprehensive service capability, ChinaCache has launched comprehensive and efficient industry solutions to meet ever changing market needs.

It’s reported that a total of 50 cloud services offered by 33 cloud service providers participated in this authentication. Eventually, 32 cloud services provided by 20 cloud service providers passed the authentication, leading to a passing rate of 64%. The Trusted Cloud Service Certification System has preliminarily established a cloud service industry credit system. The trusted cloud evaluation indicators, on the one hand, can enhance the trust from users to the cloud services; on the other hand, the disclosure system of the trusted cloud services can help to realize transparency to users, in the aspects of cloud service provider’s enterprise basic information, basic service information, the completeness, normalization and authenticity of its commitment.

ChinaCache Cloud, Building Enterprise Cloud Service

From 2009 till now, cloud computing service has been developing from initial testing and trial to wide acceptance with large-scaled commercialization at present, accompanied with significant promotion of users’ cognition of cloud computing during this period. Meanwhile, the cloud computing market in China has also been moving from growth phase to maturity phase, in the face of this unprecedented booming development. In 2013, public cloud service market alone reached 4.76 billion yuan in scale, demonstrating flourishing cloud computing service markets, including Internet giants, new startups, IDC service providers, and software vendors. Cloud computing market has brought huge subversion and change for the whole IT and Internet industry.

As China's leading total solutions provide of Internet content transmission, ChinaCache’s cloud computing service has been developing from offering source station service at the beginning to extending to the enterprise market with gradually improved products, demonstrating a high-quality level of cloud service. ChinaCache began planning cloud service as early as 2009, and become one of the first domestic cloud service providers in 2010 with its cloud hosting and block storage service awarded as one of the first domestic companies with trusted cloud service certification. With rich CDN node resource and network deployment advantage, ChinaCache can provide a large number of enterprise customers with one-stop IaaS service, fully covering broadcasting and TV, finance, education, energy, healthcare, government, network gaming, network media, and traditional manufacturing industries. To keep its leading position in industry development, and meet more and more diversified needs of the market, ChinaCache Cloud on one hand has been constantly improving the functions of its existing products, introducing cloud hosting, cloud storage, cloud monitoring, cloud backup and cloud security products on the basis of these existing products. On the other hand, ChinaCache Cloud has integrated all-around service capabilities, launching comprehensive and efficient industry solutions to meet ever-changing market needs.

In this vigorous cloud computing market, cloud service providers can gain the recognition of the market only by deeper mining and grasping customer demands, offering products and services that meet or exceed market demands, with better user experience. In the future, with constant development and maturity of cloud computing, the size of the market will be further expanded. The mixed cloud integrating features and advantages of public and private cloud will become a new growth point in the cloud computing market. ChinaCache Cloud will rely on its own research and development advantages, based on the market demands, making every effort to grasp industry customers’ needs, committed to providing customers with better products and higher quality cloud service.

ChinaCache Announces Share Buyback Program

 

BEIJING, Dec. 18, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. ("ChinaCache" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:CCIH), the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, announced today that its Board of Directors (the "Board") has approved a share buyback program, under which the Company is authorized to repurchase, through open market purchases or privately negotiated transactions, up to US$10 million worth of outstanding American Depositary Shares of ChinaCache over the next 12 months, depending on market conditions, share price and other factors, and subject to relevant rules and regulations under the U.S. securities laws.

Mr. Song Wang, Founder, Chairman and CEO of ChinaCache, commented, "We are confident in the long term growth prospects of our business as a leading CDN and Cloud total solutions provider in China. We believe that this share buyback program underscores our commitment to enhance value for our shareholders."

The share buyback program will be funded by the Company's available cash balance. As of September 30, 2014, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of approximately US$76.4 million.

2014 Summary : ChinaCache Leading the Development with Global View

In 2014, China's Internet industry has still kept the momentum of rapid development. The number of Internet population in China has exceeded 630 million, with average weekly online time increased to 25.9 hours. The rapid growth of Internet population and online duration has greatly powered up the demand of the Internet industry towards CDN network acceleration service. The sustainability and reliability of CDN industry development, so to speak, is the primary guarantee for the Internet industry to achieve leaping development. ChinaCache International Holdings (hereinafter referred to as "ChinaCache") (NASDAQ: CCIH), as China's leading total solutions provider of Internet content transmission, has deep insight into the industry, starting with details from the macroscopic view, keeping its leadership in developing CDN industry in 2014. 

ChinaCache, as the leading enterprise in CDN business in China, has been committed to promoting the overall development of China's CDN industry. In June 2014, the Global CDN Conference organized by ChinaCache was held smoothly. ChinaCache has started to hold the CDN conference since 2013, aimed to provide a platform of exploring Internet development road for industry elites and top enterprises around the globe. With accumulated successful experience from 2013, ChinaCache successfully held the CDN conference again meeting again in 2014, offering cutting edge ideas and technologies for China’s CDN industry development. 

As one of the most influential total solution providers of Internet content transmission, ChinaCache has been paying special attention to the expertise of its services and technical leadership of its products. In 2014, ChinaCache has promoted its services to a higher level. For example, in January, ChinaCache Cloud service was among the first group to have successfully passed the trusted cloud service certification, covering cloud hosting and EBS service, offering customers with more stable and convenient cloud service by providing the “feasibility level" of 99.9%. In addition, the main body structure of ChinaCache Shouming Cloud Data Center was completed in Nov 19. The center will be equipped with globally leading experts and operation teams, to create a new generation of green and environmental-protection high-end data center cluster, and achieve the goal of offering package solutions to customers. The completion of these two major projects has further highlighted ChinaCache’s industry strength while enabling ChinaCache to have a head start in the fierce competition. 

Today’s Internet industry is filled with innovations and changes. Under the influence of globalization, the network has become a microcosm of rapid social innovation, among which the rapid development of mobile Internet has brought broad market prospect for CDN industry.

 ChinaCache has been leading in new explorations in mobile Internet and cross-industry development. In terms of the mobile Internet, ChinaCache has started cooperation with two well-known mobile Internet companies at home and abroad. In February, ChinaCache built the first 4G mobile Internet solution with Nokia Communication. The cooperation with Nokia Communication will enhance mobile Internet content acceleration and content customization performance, improve the availability of positioning and reference services, and provide awareness service for user behaviors and network real time status. In June, ChinaCache started partnership with Inmobly, the world's top SaaS mobile video content delivery solution provider, for extensive cooperation in the field of Internet applications, aiming to promote a new round of innovations for China’s mobile Internet, by integrating comparative advantages of ChinaCache and Inmobly, to offer better experiences for China Mobile’s users in access to 3G and 4G network. ChinaCache’s exploration and innovative cooperation in the mobile Internet have further advanced the innovation of mobile acceleration technology, to optimize domestic mobile network environment greatly.

In addition, in the heated e-commerce industry, ChinaCache has been playing an important supporting role as always. ChinaCache, by providing static page acceleration service, intelligent storage, distribution and adaptation service, has helped e-commerce service providers to handle heavy traffic challenge in shopping seasons, enabling enterprises to improve transmission effect of all kinds of data and content, without the need of additional investment. With this service, ChinaCache has successfully provided perfect solutions for well known e-commerce enterprises such as Jingdong, Suning and Jumei.

ChinaCache has also continued to provide total solutions support for major events at home and abroad, offering network operation & maintenance supports for enterprises at the same time. In November 2014, the 22^nd informal leadership meeting of APEC was held in Beijing. ChinaCache worked together with QianLong.com, offering network service total solution for APEC official website, including global acceleration solution, video on demand global acceleration solution, and server hosting solution, ensuring Internet zero-error service during the period of APEC conference. 

In 2014, ChinaCache, based on its industry positioning, has been making innovations and breakthroughs, with new cooperation and attempts in new fields, leading to fruitful results. On one hand, ChinaCache have well completed its task of offering network service support for major meetings at home and abroad. On the other hand, ChinaCache has adhered to professional service and leading technology, demonstrating its professional strength as China’s leading enterprise in CDN industry not only within the industry but also in cross-industry field. 

ChinaCache is ready for the upcoming 2015. With focus on technology innovation and experience accumulation, ChinaCache will continue to maintain its leading position in domestic CDN industry, while expanding into overseas markets to compete with global CDN companies. 

ChinaCache Cloud Service Based on Network Advantage

Rapid development and changes of Internet industry have led to several issues including uneven utilization of network resources, poor flexibility, low security efficiency, management difficulties and incapability of satisfying business needs. The rise of cloud computing has made more and more enterprises, especially those mainly focusing on public service, gradually accept and more tend to use cloud service. According to statistics, by the end of 2013, 60% of small and medium-sized enterprises had been using cloud service, and 70% people in those companies had virtualized the core content in their server. This shows that cloud computing is playing a more and more important role. The application trend of cloud computing also gradually extends from Internet industry to traditional industry. The service chain of cloud computing is increasingly rich, resulting in common development of private cloud, public cloud and hybrid cloud services.

 ChinaCache has started the research and development of cloud products as early as 2009, as one of the earliest domestic companies offering IaaS infrastructure cloud service to the market. With sound stability, safety and premium service, ChinaCache’s cloud products were awarded in 2014 with the trusted cloud certification issued by the National Ministry of Information and Information Technology. Rich cloud data center resources and many years of leading experience in operation and maintenance have laid a strong foundation for ChinaCache’s cloud service. Years of thorough R&D and intensive cultivation, ChinaCache’s cloud service has covered many industries including government, e-commerce, traditional enterprises, network media, network game industry, and mobile Internet. At present, ChinaCache cloud provides key services such as cloud hosting, cloud storage, load balance, cloud distributing CDN, and virtual subnet, providing customers with Iaas cloud service solution of low cost, high performance, and high scalability.

Cloud hosting service

ChinaCache Cloud adopts mainstream KVM virtualization technology, offering independently researched and developed products, with high performance physical servers used for the bottom level. The host can be migrated among nodes in multiple data centers, offering features such as flexibility, scalability and stability. Through dynamic resource allocation optimization and automatic architecture management, ChinaCache Cloud can save maintenance costs by 50%, improving operational efficiency and IT services level.

Cloud storage service

Cloud storage service is based on elastic block storage, achieving cost-effective mass storage and efficient resource allocation model, saving hardware investment by 1/4, improving resources utilization efficiency twice, lowering operational cost and energy consumption greatly, through massive distributed storage technology, distributed resource management technology, as well as independent optimization of virtualization technology.

Network acceleration service

ChinaCache’s CDN service can provide static content acceleration and dynamic acceleration, meeting the requirements of website dynamic and static mixing acceleration both at home and abroad. ChinaCache Cloud, with distributed cloud nodes, can be combined with CDN in a seamless way, ensuring service results while saving costs.

Professional operational maintenance service

Based on years of operational maintenance experience, ChinaCache can provide technical consultation and support, customer training, installation and commissioning of necessary product software, troubleshooting for system failures, upgrade service of hardware and system software, operation guarantee for application software, and 7 * 24 one to one professional service, in terms of cloud service.

ChinaCache Cloud, through continuous R&D investment and intensive cultivation, has accumulated strong technical strength and rich operational maintenance experience, offering powerful customized development capability, better satisfying customer-tailored delivery demands. This year, ChinaCache’s cloud service will continue to focus on government and enterprise customers, dedicated to providing reliable and highly secure public cloud service and customized private cloud and hybrid cloud services, to improve service values with the aid of network advantage.