① Against the backdrop of tightening the pace of A-share IPOs and stricter requirements for science and technology innovation boards, only Zhiling Haina has disclosed that the sector to be listed is the Science and Technology Innovation Board in the past month; ② As of the latest, Zhiling Haina has a total of 127 open patent applications. Judging from the application trend, the company's application volume has increased dramatically since 2021, and the scale and stability of R&D are good.
“Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily”, April 8 (Researcher Zhu Ling, Special Research Fellow Chen Junqing) In the context of the tightening pace of A-share IPOs and stricter requirements for the attributes of the Science and Technology Innovation Board, only Zhiling Haina's family revealed that the sector to be listed in the past month was the Science and Technology Innovation Board.
Established in 2013, Zhiling Haina is a professional provider of modern IT infrastructure products and solutions, providing a diverse product portfolio such as hyperconverged infrastructure, distributed storage, and native Kubernetes storage.
What are Zhiling Haina's science and innovation attributes? According to the Smart Sprout TFFI Enterprise Science and Innovation Capability Assessment System, Zhiling Haina's science and innovation capability rating in the artificial intelligence industry is A, ranking in the top 1% of the same industry.
As of the latest, Zhiling Haina has a total of 127 public patent applications. Judging from the application trend, the company's application volume has increased dramatically since 2021, and the scale and stability of R&D are good.
Figure: Zhiling Haina Patent Application and Licensing Trends (Data Source: Wisdom Bud)
In terms of patent types, there are 106 invention patents, accounting for about 83%. Judging from the patent status, there are 101 active patents, which is close to 80%.
Figure: Zhiling Haina Patent Innovation Word Cloud (Data Source: Wisdom Bud)
From a technical perspective, Zhiling Haina's patents mainly focus on technical fields such as graphical user interfaces, display screens, virtual machines, hyperconvergence, and test methods, all of which are applied to the company's main business.
Figure: Zhiling Haina Patent Technology Hierarchy (Data Source: Smart Bud)
According to further analysis, Zhiling Haina has the largest layout in the field of distributed technology. Its technical segments are distributed storage, distributed systems, copy management, dynamic scheduling, and distributed tasks.
In terms of the R&D team, the Smart Buds TFFI Enterprise Science and Innovation Capability Assessment System shows that Zhiling Haina has 68 inventors. Among them, Zhang Kai, Xu Wenhao, and Wang Hongyi ranked in the top three, with 92, 84, and 84 patents respectively.
They are the co-founders of Zhiling Haina. They all graduated from the High Performance Computing Research Institute of the Computer Department of Tsinghua University and served as CTO, CEO, and COO respectively. Their work experience includes companies such as Nimbula, Microsoft Research Asia, and Baidu.
From an industry perspective, hyperconvergence is currently showing a rapid growth trend on a global scale. According to the global hyperconvergence market research report published by research firm Omdia, the compound annual growth rate for 2021-26 is expected to reach 30%. By 2026, hyperconvergence will become the second-largest segment of the software-defined storage market after SDS hardware, with a market size of over $29 billion.
According to the “China Software-Defined Storage (SDS) and Hyperconverged Storage System (HCI) Market Quarterly Tracking Report” published by the international data company IDC, Zhiling Haina's market share in the third quarter of 2023 was 19.4%, ranking first.
However, at present, companies participating in hyperconvergence continue to emerge, and the addition of manufacturers such as Huawei, Lenovo, Shenzhen, Inspur, and An Chaoyun has made competition in the hyperconverged market more intense. Whether Zhiling Haina can continue to pay attention to R&D investment, gain a foothold in fierce market competition, and register on the Science and Technology Innovation Board deserves further attention.
“Enterprise Innovation Evaluation Laboratory”: Launched by the “Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily”, which focuses on emerging industries and capital reporting and services. It aims to study the company's science and innovation strength and explore the company with the most scientific and innovation strength in terms of technical quality, patent layout, technological influence, company competitiveness, R&D scale and stability using an enterprise science and technology innovation evaluation model.