DaoWoo

About DaoWoo

DaoWoo Times (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. is a converged storage solutions provider founded in 2010 by Tian Daqing and headquartered in Beijing, China. The company specializes in researching and developing storage systems, converged IT architecture, and products and services related to cloud computing and big data. DaoWoo is a proponent of "Software-Defined Storage (SDS)," utilizing core software systems with universal hardware to create reliable and scalable IT infrastructures. The firm has achieved breakthroughs in distributed metadata and hybrid scheduling of SSDs/HDDs.

The company's main offerings include the application-defined converged storage system "YeeSAN," the software-defined high-performance distributed storage system "YeeFS," and the wide-area storage system "WooStor" for unified data management across multiple locations. These products and solutions are designed to address the challenges of the cloud computing and big data era, finding extensive application in sectors such as education, healthcare, and government. DaoWoo has also established a joint laboratory for massive data processing with the Institute of Computing Technology and the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, both under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Financially, DaoWoo secured a Series A funding round of tens of millions of RMB in November 2014. This was followed by a Series B round in September 2016, where it raised 63 million RMB (approximately $9.4M) from Songshan Capital.