Ruijie Networks releases "U Space" solution, a new choice for remote office

Some time ago, Shenzhen, under the epidemic, contributed a famous scene: workers who needed to work remotely carried their computers home. For a time, people carrying computers were everywhere in the city, vividly interpreting the spirit of "people are there, the computer is there".

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Why don't they use laptops for work? In fact, in various industries, there are a large number of employees who use fixed office desktops, such as R&D, testing, finance, design, etc., because the business and data they work on are the core assets of the organization and have extremely high security requirements. For them, they can only go to the company to work overtime, and can only carry the host home when they encounter a lockdown, which is helpless and sad.

On April 1, Ruijie Networks, a provider of ICT infrastructure and industry solutions, held a press conference to officially launch the Unified WorkSpace U space solution (hereinafter referred to as U space), providing these helpless workers and organizations with a better multi-point office option, allowing applications and data to be carried with them at all times while ensuring security.

The pain of "fixed" in multi-point office mode

In the post-epidemic era, the scale of remote work is accelerating. According to a CNNIC survey, as of December 2021, the scale of online office users in my country reached 469 million, accounting for 45.4% of the total number of netizens. Whether it is hybrid office, mobile office, or Internet diagnosis and treatment or home-school preparation and teaching applications that are deeply applied in the industry, users hope to be able to work anytime and anywhere after switching office locations to improve efficiency.

In addition to the need to work from home due to the epidemic mentioned above, users of fixed office desktops also have many "multi-point office" scenarios. In the company, they cannot be confined to their workstations and need to work in conference rooms, test rooms, etc.; outside the company, they often have fragmented office needs, such as using mobile phones to process information when going out and handling office affairs at home.

Qu Jingyang, Product Director of Ruijie Networks Cloud Desktop Product Division, said: "The multi-point office we are talking about does not only refer to remote office, but also emphasizes multi-location and multi-terminal. In order to meet the challenges of fixed office desktop users in the transformation of multi-point office mode, the launch of Ruijie U Space is just in time."

In the multi-point office mode, the challenges faced by employees and organizations are far more than just taking the host home. The increase in the number of office terminals and the expansion of their scope may bring about illegal access and intranet security risks, making it difficult to ensure the security of working from home. In order to cope with multi-point office and secure access, switching to VDI cloud desktop seems to be a good choice, but the initial deployment cost is high and the switching is difficult. At the same time, the computing power of existing PCs cannot be added to the VDI resource pool, resulting in a waste of investment.

U Space: Your Exclusive Workspace

The U space solution launched by Ruijie Networks directly addresses the pain points of fixed desktop users in multi-point office scenarios. Qu Jingyang introduced: U space represents the connotations of Uinfied, secUrity, and fUsion. Its three major features of "boundaryless office", "worry-free security", and "seamless integration" can help enterprises easily achieve a more efficient, safer, and cost-effective multi-point office experience. It is "YOU" your exclusive workspace.

The concept of "workspace" was not proposed by Ruijie. It refers to the collection of all elements in an office process, from the traditional pen + notebook + desk to personal computer + various office applications. With the diversification of office places, the diversification of office terminals, the complexity of office environment and the digital development of office technology, users' office work involves more and more content. Ruijie's U space has made a new upgrade to the workspace, helping users integrate and connect all work resources used in the office, including office desktops, applications, data and network environments. First, users can enter the workspace anytime and anywhere. Secondly, the separation of workspace and personal space provides good security and clear maintenance boundaries for office. Finally, it does not tear down and rebuild the user's existing office information equipment, but spatializes the existing equipment, smooths the transition and protects the investment.

Unbounded Office: Great Office Experience with Mobile Apps

Ruijie U Space supports on-demand connection. Through the UWS client, one account can be connected to multiple office desktops, allowing users to work easily without leaving home, significantly saving commuting costs. Through U Space, users can obtain the full office environment within the company, including personal data, public data, desktops, applications, etc., to open a new multi-point office mode for users to ensure that work is not interrupted due to lack of office environment. In addition, Ruijie's unique IDV terminal on-demand function ensures that the resources on the fat terminal are always online, allowing users to work at any time while saving electricity costs.

In addition, U Space provides multiple clients for desktop and mobile phones, and supports two modes of use: desktop and file to meet office needs in different scenarios. During remote operation, the desktop in the company remains black, which can effectively protect privacy. Unlike traditional remote desktop or VDI desktop access, which requires complex configuration, U Space supports the "novice user mode" of fuzzy search for company names to quickly access the office environment, bringing a more flexible, convenient, and barrier-free application experience.

Worry-free security: access to fully controlled data without any loss

Traditional remote desktop access to office environments can be done by simply logging in with identification codes and verification codes, making it difficult for administrators to control. U-Space users log in with a unified cloud desktop account, which is assigned by the administrator. It supports post-access security policy settings and refined log auditing functions, which can achieve full security management of account login, behavior control, and log auditing during office environment access.

The traditional laptop + VPN office mode has the risk of virus transmission due to the unauthenticated access device environment, as well as the risk of data leakage and loss due to the mixed storage of personal and office data. In the U-space office mode, home computers do not participate in office work, and the entire work environment runs on the U-space, which completely isolates the work environment from the living environment, ensuring that data is not lost and information is more secure. In addition, U-space also has a variety of control measures including anti-screenshot, light and dark watermarks, etc. to prevent the leakage of important digital assets within the enterprise.

Seamless integration: desktop space saves money and effort

The VDI desktop office solution has the characteristics of data not being dropped and being accessible anywhere, making it an ideal choice for secure and anytime, anywhere office work. However, the spatialization of the VDI desktop solution requires a considerable amount of construction investment and maintenance. It is estimated that the cost of a single desktop in the desktop cloud construction exceeds 3,000 yuan, and to achieve PC user data migration, it takes more than 4 hours of unit migration time based on the average data volume of 30G per user and more than 10 application installations. The use of U space can support any desktop type of VDI/IDV/TCI/PC. Users only need to invest in software and do not need migration costs, which greatly saves equipment, manpower and time costs.

No matter how many times you are beaten, you will still be strong, no matter which direction the wind blows!

At a time when a new round of COVID-19 outbreaks has reappeared in many parts of China, many places have introduced home and on-site isolation measures, and enterprises are also facing more severe office difficulties. The U Space launched by Ruijie Networks this time provides a new weapon for the post-epidemic office challenges of various industries. Qu Jingyang said: In the future, U Space will also show more capabilities such as PC terminal cross-WAN startup, virtual applications, multi-desktop integration, application stores, file collaboration, etc., to better help users build a unified, secure, and integrated personal exclusive office space, and achieve a safe and mobile office environment that breaks through the limitations of time and space in a more cost-effective way.