What YanRong Tech does

YanRong Tech (焱融科技) is a Beijing-headquartered software-defined storage company founded in 2016 that builds high-performance distributed file storage systems purpose-built for AI, HPC, and compute-intensive workloads. Its core product, YRCloudFile, is a proprietary software-defined distributed parallel file system supporting POSIX, NFS, SMB, CSI, and HDFS protocols, with independently scalable metadata services, RDMA/InfiniBand/RoCE high-speed networking, and the distinction of being the first domestic Chinese storage product to support NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage and KVCache for AI inference. The portfolio is extended through the Zhuiguang (追光) series of turnkey all-flash storage appliances (F9000X, F8000X, F8000XC) and hybrid flash G6 appliances, plus the recently launched DataInsight product for AI inference data management. Technical validation is supported by IO500 World No.6 ranking and multiple MLPerf Storage world championships in 2024 and 2025.

The company's revenue model combines one-time software licenses for YRCloudFile (deployable on customer x86 or domestic Kunpeng/Haiguang/Phytium hardware), hardware appliance sales for turnkey deployment, and enterprise support/professional services, with all pricing handled through direct sales consultation under multi-year contracts. Customer segments are deliberately diversified across eight verticals: AI/intelligent computing centers, autonomous driving, life sciences/bioinformatics, financial quantitative trading, HPC, GIS/geographic surveying, cloud-native/container workloads, and hybrid cloud — with hundreds of named enterprise and institutional customers including iFLYTEK, Zhipu AI, Midea, Haier, State Grid, China Mobile Cloud, and CVTE. Go-to-market combines direct enterprise field sales (with free trials and proof-of-concept evaluations) in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, layered with channel partners (Changhong Jiahua, Ingram Micro China), technology integrators (NVIDIA, AMD, Mellanox, VMware, Qingyun, Shenzhou KunTai), and compatibility certifications with all major Chinese and global cloud platforms. The company has raised approximately RMB 470 million (USD 65M) across eight funding rounds from 2018 through March 2025, with cumulative IDC-cited YoY revenue growth of 94.2% in 2024 placing it #4 in China's SDS all-flash market and #1 in segment growth rate.

Name

YanRong Tech

Legal name

北京焱融科技有限公司

Website

https://yanrongyun.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

YanRong Tech builds YRCloudFile, a high-performance distributed file storage system purpose-built for AI, HPC, and autonomous-driving workloads, sold as software licenses and Zhuiguang all-flash appliances to enterprise and institutional customers across China.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Beijing

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software-defined Storage Software License (YRCloudFile): YRCloudFile is sold as a software license deployable on general x86 or domestic processor (Kunpeng, Haiguang, Phytium) hardware platforms. The software is the core product, sold with enterprise-grade support and maintenance contracts. Customers can purchase the software separately and deploy on their own hardware infrastructure.
2. All-Flash Storage Appliance (追光系列一体机): YanRong Tech sells integrated all-flash storage appliances (F9000X, F8000X, F8000XC, G6 series) that bundle YRCloudFile software with optimized hardware platforms. These are complete turnkey solutions providing 'out-of-the-box' experience, sold as one-time hardware appliance purchases, primarily targeting AI/HPC compute-intensive enterprises.
3. Enterprise Support and Professional Services: The company offers product consultation, purchase guidance, after-sales technical support ([email protected]), and likely professional services for deployment, integration, and optimization — indicated by dedicated support and consulting contact channels on the website.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

YanRong Tech develops and sells YRCloudFile, a high-performance software-defined distributed file storage system designed for AI, HPC, and compute-intensive workloads. The company also sells 追光 (Zhuiguang) series all-flash and hybrid flash storage appliances (F9000X, F8000X, F8000XC, G6 series) that bundle the YRCloudFile software with optimized hardware. Products target enterprise customers in AI/intelligent computing, HPC, autonomous driving, life sciences, financial quantitative trading, and government sectors.

Product overview

YanRong Tech (焱融科技) offers a unified high-performance distributed storage portfolio centered on YRCloudFile software, complemented by a range of purpose-built all-flash and hybrid storage appliances under the 追光 (Chasing Light) series. YRCloudFile serves as the core software-defined distributed file storage platform delivering industry-leading performance for AI and HPC workloads, while the hardware appliances (F9000X, F8000X, F8000XC, G6 series) provide turnkey deployment options. Supporting products include DataInsight for AI inference data management and KVCache/YRCache features that extend GPU memory to shared storage for inference acceleration. The portfolio is unified by a common architecture supporting x86 and domestic ARM platforms, container storage via CSI, and deployment across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and public cloud environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• YRCloudFile: High-performance distributed file storage software independently developed by YanRong Tech, supporting massive file management with enterprise-grade features and interfaces.
• 追光系列一体机 (ZhuiGuang Series All-Flash Storage Appliance)
• YRCache / YRCloudFile KVCache
• 焱融 DataInsight
• 焱融 SaaS平台

Products and services

• YRCloudFile High-performance software-defined distributed file storage software independently developed by YanRong Tech. Supports massive file management with enterprise-grade interfaces including POSIX, NFS, SMB, CSI, and HDFS protocols. Deployed on general x86 and domestic processor (Kunpeng, Haiguang, Phytium) hardware platforms. Provides industry-leading IO500 and MLPerf Storage benchmark performance for AI and HPC workloads.
• 焱融全闪存储一体机 F9000X (YanRong All-Flash Storage Appliance F9000X) All-flash storage appliance with PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD, supporting NVIDIA NDR 400 InfiniBand / 400GbE RoCE high-speed lossless networks. 3-node cluster delivers 480GBps bandwidth and 7.5M IOPS. Achieved multiple world first places in MLPerf Storage Benchmark v2.0 with 513GB/s bandwidth.
• 焱融全闪存储一体机 F8000X (YanRong All-Flash Storage Appliance F8000X) All-flash storage appliance based on x86 next-generation high-performance hardware platform. Supports 100/200GE RoCE, 200/400Gbps InfiniBand high-speed networks with RDMA and multi-NIC aggregation. Single node delivers 90GBps bandwidth and 3M IOPS. Supports NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS).
• 焱融国产全闪存储一体机 F8000XC (YanRong Domestic All-Flash Storage Appliance F8000XC) Domestic full-flash storage appliance designed for domestic environments. Deeply adapted to Kunpeng, Haiguang and other domestic hardware platforms. Fully compatible with domestic computing platforms and mainstream domestic operating systems. Supports domestic SSD flash drives.
• 焱融混闪存储一体机 3100/5100 G6 系列 (YanRong Hybrid Flash Storage Appliance 3100/5100 G6 Series) Hybrid flash storage appliance series with ultra-high storage performance covering all storage scenarios. Balances storage capacity and performance needs. Specialized for massive data scenarios with intelligent data tiering to reduce storage costs.
• 焱融 DataInsight (YanRong DataInsight) Product designed for AI inference scenarios. Supports unified management of heterogeneous data sources, breaking data silos. Enables hundred-billion-level file retrieval in seconds, significantly improving inference efficiency. Provides real-time awareness and synchronization updates ensuring data timeliness with enterprise-grade security and compliance.

Quantifiable outcome

• AI inference performance increased 13x, latency reduced over 4x, and concurrent user capacity increased 8x (for TTFT≤2s constraint) with YRCloudFile KVCache
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration13 records

AI capability3 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AMDcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 June 2025YanRong joined AMD's China Industry Ecosystem Co-construction Plan as a first-batch partner, opening a new chapter of deep collaboration in AI storage. The partnership focuses on collaborative innovation in AI storage solutions leveraging AMD's computing platforms.
• NVIDIAcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 June 2025YanRong is China's first storage vendor to support NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) and GPUDirect technologies. The partnership enables direct data paths between YRCloudFile storage and NVIDIA GPU memory. YanRong also participates in NVIDIA's Inception program and co-validates on NVIDIA DGX systems.
• 长虹佳华 (Changhong Jiahua)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 June 2025Strategic partnership leveraging Changhong Jiahua's channel resources and digital-intelligent integrated services to broadly promote YanRong's high-performance storage solutions across industries.
• 英迈中国 (Ingram Micro China)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 June 2025Strategic partnership integrating YanRong's technology R&D and product capabilities with Ingram Micro's resource integration and ecosystem positioning in distributed storage, cloud infrastructure, and AI computing infrastructure.
• Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen (哈工大深圳)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2025YanRong and HIT Shenzhen jointly launched an 'AI inference storage' research project focusing on high-performance data access and cache optimization in AI inference scenarios, combining industry practice with academic research.
• 燧原科技 (Enflame / Suiruan Technology)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025YanRong participated as a founding member of the '燎原' AI Industry Alliance alongside Suichuan Technology (as chain leader), Baichuan Intelligence, Zhongdian Jinxin, and 14 other ecosystem companies, jointly building an AI innovation ecosystem with Wuxi and Wuxi High-tech Zone.
• 百度AI加速器 (Baidu AI Accelerator)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 December 2020YanRong selected into Baidu AI Accelerator Cohort 7 as a representative intelligent computing company, gaining access to Baidu's AI ecosystem and co-marketing opportunities.
• VMware (VIN / 威睿加速计划)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2019YanRong selected as one of 40 first-batch companies in VMware Innovation Network (VIN) Accelerator Program, participating in VMware's global innovation ecosystem.
• 科大讯飞 (iFLYTEK)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 November 2019Partnership with iFLYTEK for HPC storage performance optimization, resulting in IO500 World No.6 ranking. YRCloudFile serves as core storage for iFLYTEK's deep learning infrastructure.
• Mellanox (迈络思)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 May 2019Strategic partnership to build high-performance distributed file storage using RDMA technology over InfiniBand/Ethernet RoCE networks. Joint solution achieves 300% performance improvement vs TCP networks.
• CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2019YanRong's YRCloudFile became the first Chinese company listed in CNCF's Cloud Native Landscape (Storage quadrant), establishing YanRong as a core member of the global container storage ecosystem.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• MinIO: MinIO is an open-source, Kubernetes-native object storage platform widely deployed for AI/ML data lakes, overlapping with YanRong's YRCloudFile in AI training data pipelines. While MinIO focuses on S3-compatible object storage and YanRong on POSIX file systems, both target AI infrastructure customers and participate in the CNCF ecosystem for cloud-native storage.
• XSKY: XSKY is a leading Chinese software-defined storage vendor specializing in distributed file and object storage, competing directly with YRCloudFile in China's enterprise market. Both target AI, HPC, and cloud-native workloads with similar protocol support (POSIX/NFS/SMB/S3/CSI) and serve overlapping customer segments including financial, government, and telecom. They appear side-by-side in IDC SDS rankings.
• VAST Data: VAST Data provides a unified AI/HPC storage platform combining file, object, and database protocols, with strong overlap to YRCloudFile's multi-protocol approach. Both compete for large-scale AI training cluster deployments and emphasize NVMe, RDMA, and tiered all-flash architectures. VAST's DASE architecture and YanRong's symmetric distributed metadata are analogous technology bets.
• DDN (DataDirect Networks): DDN is a long-established leader in HPC and AI storage with EXAScaler and AI400 product lines, directly comparable to YanRong's HPC/AI focus. Both serve research labs, autonomous driving, and large-model training customers with high-throughput parallel file systems and InfiniBand-native designs. DDN's installed base in China and globally competes with YanRong in the same benchmarks.
• Qumulo: Qumulo provides a distributed file storage platform for unstructured data at scale, with similar customer profiles to YanRong (AI, life sciences, media). Both focus exclusively on file storage and compete in enterprise and HPC segments, though Qumulo has stronger presence in North American markets and YanRong in China.
• WEKA: WEKA is a high-performance distributed file system purpose-built for AI/HPC workloads, competing head-to-head with YRCloudFile. Both target GPU clusters with parallel file system architectures, RDMA support, and benchmark leadership (WEKA also features in IO500/MLPerf Storage rankings). YanRong's F9000X and KVCache directly compete with WEKA's data platform and NeuralMesh offerings for AI training and inference.

Broad incumbents

• NetApp: NetApp is a global enterprise storage incumbent with strong AI/HPC positioning (ONTAP, NFS, parallel file systems) competing with YanRong in multinational and large-enterprise accounts. While NetApp is a broadline vendor with a much larger install base, its NFS/CSI integration and AI reference architectures overlap with YRCloudFile's value proposition for global enterprises.
• Inspur Storage: Inspur is one of China's largest server and storage vendors, with parallel file system and AI storage offerings serving similar customers to YanRong (AI compute centers, government, HPC). Inspur's broad infrastructure portfolio and scale contrast with YanRong's vertical file-storage focus. Both appear in IDC's China SDS tracking and compete for AI infrastructure deals.
• Huawei OceanStor: Huawei OceanStor is a dominant Chinese enterprise storage portfolio with all-flash, hybrid, and distributed file offerings, overlapping with YanRong's entire product range. As a broadline storage incumbent with massive R&D and SOE relationships, Huawei competes especially in government, telecom, and state-owned enterprise segments where YanRong also sells. YanRong competes by being more specialized and performance-focused in AI/HPC.
• IBM Storage (Spectrum Scale): IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) is a long-established HPC parallel file system with deep installation in research labs and supercomputing centers worldwide. Both YanRong and IBM Spectrum Scale target high-bandwidth, low-latency HPC workloads and compete in academic, national lab, and enterprise HPC segments where IO500 rankings matter.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/YanrongTech

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors9 records

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M&A

Investments

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