Sudden server failures, storage outages, inaccessible systems, and business operations grinding to a halt—such “data crises” are far from hypothetical. They occur repeatedly in reality, and in some cases have pushed enterprises to the brink of collapse.
On November 8, 2025, Bank of America experienced a major technical failure that disrupted multiple daily services. On the following trading day, across the Pacific, the share price of STAR Market-listed company Info2soft surged more than 14%. The reason was clear: the market recognized the substantial value of Info2soft’s less-visible core business—data disaster recovery—an area where banks are among its most critical protected clients.
For most individual users, enterprise-grade “data disaster recovery” may sound unfamiliar, yet it is closely tied to everyday work and life. It functions like a safety lock—ensuring enterprises maintain always-available data during crises, sparing users from service outages and disruptions.
As the first A-share listed company in China to provide data replication and disaster recovery software and hardware, Info2soft now serves more than 6,000 institutional customers worldwide. Since its founding, Chairman and General Manager Justin Hu has led the team in overcoming three formidable challenges—R&D, market adoption, and trust—to build a resilient, fully self-developed technology stack that supports enterprise business continuity on a global scale.
“We will continue to maintain a high level of R&D investment,” Hu said recently in an interview with Shanghai Securities News. “Our initial goal is to keep R&D spending at over 50% of revenue. At the same time, we aim to expand our business footprint and raise the proportion of overseas revenue to a new level—potentially 20% or more.”
Photo: Justin Hu, Chairman and General Manager of Info2soft
Building a “Safety Lock” for Data
In 2011, when WeChat had just launched and MSN was still widely used, China’s mobile internet era was only beginning. IBM had yet to formally introduce the concept of “digital transformation,” but Info2soft’s founding team had already identified an opportunity: domestically developed data disaster recovery software.
From a modest office on Beijing East Road in Shanghai, the team embarked on its entrepreneurial journey—at a time when domestic data management software received little market attention.
“We always believed that data management would become a core enterprise necessity in the internet era,” Hu explained. “Data resilience determines business resilience—and resilience must be designed.”
In an ideal world, uninterrupted business requires data to be permanently online. In reality, rapid recovery after disruptions is the more practical strategy. This ability to recover quickly—resilience—is precisely the “disaster recovery safety lock” that Info2soft provides.
Over more than a decade, Hu has turned this belief—empowering business stability through data resilience—into a publicly listed company. Info2soft has built four major product lines covering disaster recovery, backup, big data, and cloud data management, precisely addressing diverse application scenarios.
Data disaster recovery is a highly sophisticated systems engineering challenge. It requires scheduled or real-time replication of files and databases, synchronization across homogeneous and heterogeneous platforms, and fast failover through remote disaster recovery mechanisms—spanning local and offsite scenarios.
“If data is an enterprise’s lifeline,” Hu said, “then disaster recovery is an instantly accessible backup granary—ensuring data integrity and seamless business continuity when the unexpected occurs.”
Today, Info2soft’s solutions protect securities trading systems, hospital LIS systems, manufacturing MES platforms, and more—supporting microsecond-level point-in-time recovery and ensuring reliable restoration even after data loss or ransomware attacks.
Overcoming Three Mountains of Innovation
In 2023, Info2soft listed on the STAR Market, becoming the first publicly listed company in China’s data replication and disaster recovery sector, now serving over 6,000 enterprises globally.
“This scale was hard-won,” Hu reflected. “Beyond R&D and market development, the highest mountain we had to climb was trust.”
Early on, skepticism was common: “You’re a Chinese company—can you really build reliable disaster recovery software?” Competing with established international vendors as a latecomer posed immense challenges.
“Disaster recovery software operates at the system foundation—every line of code must withstand stress tests from banks and telecom operators,” Hu recalled. “This was a mountain we had to climb through sheer technical strength.”
Info2soft sustained exceptionally high R&D investment, achieving independent control over core technologies such as byte-level file replication, block-level volume replication, and database semantic replication—delivering byte-level consistency, semantic consistency, and second-level failover.
Market adoption proved to be the second mountain. During the early days of China’s digital transformation, many enterprises underestimated disaster recovery needs.
“Disaster recovery isn’t about storytelling—it’s about proven scenarios,” Hu said. A defining moment came when a securities trading system failed during trading hours, and Info2soft’s software enabled second-level takeover. The case quickly elevated the company’s industry reputation.
Yet the highest peak remained trust—particularly overseas.
“Some international customers are biased against Chinese foundational software,” Hu noted. “But we are determined to establish global trust in Chinese technology.”
Driven by this conviction, Info2soft has adhered to three core principles for over a decade: hardcore technology, financial-grade stability, and long-term service commitment.
Toward a Broader World
The “broader world” Hu refers to is the ongoing transformation of the data replication industry. The rapid rise of AI and increasing demands for data reliability are reshaping the landscape.
“AI training and inference require massive volumes of high-quality, traceable, and recoverable data,” Hu said. “AI doesn’t just consume data—it reshapes how data flows, is managed, and protected.”
In response, Info2soft is advancing through a dual strategy of AI enablement and global expansion, evolving from a disaster recovery vendor into a data resilience platform company.
On the AI front, the company is accelerating R&D in intelligent replication, AI-driven ransomware protection, and semantic-level synchronization—integrating AI with replication, backup, and disaster recovery to deliver intelligent, automated data management platforms.
Internationally, Info2soft has established a wholly owned subsidiary in Hong Kong and expanded operations abroad. It plans to build three core hubs: Shanghai (R&D), Hong Kong (international operations), and Singapore (ASEAN expansion)—strengthening global competitiveness and brand influence.
“Our vision is to become a globally leading data resilience platform by the end of the 15th Five-Year Plan period,” Hu said. “Even if new mountains lie ahead, we are confident in overcoming every one of them.”
Source: Shanghai Securities News
Author: Zheng Weihan
Original links:
- Xinhua: Info2soft: Overcoming the Three Mountains of Data Resilience
- Shanghai Securities News: Info2soft: Putting an “Always-On” Safety Lock on Enterprise Data