Ruijie Cloud Desktop is deployed in Tianjin Pharmaceutical Research Institute to help build a model for digital transformation of pharmaceutical companies

With the advancement of the "Healthy China 2030" plan, the digitalization process of pharmaceutical companies continues to accelerate. Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, a high-tech enterprise founded in 1959 and currently focusing on new drug research, has also regarded digitalization as a top priority for its transformation and development. How to use digital means to improve R&D efficiency and better support scientific research innovation and intellectual property protection has also become an important goal.

Recently, Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research (hereinafter referred to as "TIPRI") and Ruijie Networks jointly organized a visit and experience event. Through on-site demonstrations, media seminars and other forms, they elaborated on topics such as the background and trends of digital transformation of pharmaceutical companies and the results of the implementation of cloud desktops in Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research.

The pain of traditional PC office: many data security risks

Compared with other industries, the digitalization process of pharmaceutical companies has its own particularities.

Wang Ning, director of the Digital Center of Tianjin Pharmaceutical Research Institute, mentioned that first of all, the pharmaceutical industry has multiple regulatory requirements at the government regulatory level, and the entire digital construction process must be built in accordance with regulations. Secondly, the company's own intellectual property rights must be properly protected. Based on this premise, Tianjin Pharmaceutical Research Institute has formulated the company's "14th Five-Year Plan" digital strategic plan, covering four major business sectors: R&D, production, marketing, and industry services.

In actual implementation, Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research took the lead in introducing the intelligent cloud desktop system based on the actual needs of the scientific research service field.

Traditional desktop office work involves the use and maintenance of a large number of PCs, which inevitably leads to many contradictions: high hardware costs, high operation and maintenance pressure, scattered data, etc. Among them, the challenges related to data security are particularly severe.

Wang Ning introduced that the IT equipment in traditional corporate offices or scientific research sites basically adopts the "host + client" or "web browser + web server" approach. These approaches often result in a large amount of self-owned documents and other data being stored on local office terminals. Despite the use of various technical protections such as data encryption, it is not realistic to solve the problems of virus intrusion and data leakage once and for all. For enterprises, the risk of data asset loss and external intrusion threats still exist for a long time.

It is precisely to solve these problems that Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research decided to introduce an intelligent cloud desktop system.

"The smart cloud desktop allows us to upload our local research and development data to the cloud as quickly as possible, thus building a three-in-one architecture based on the smart cloud desktop + smart document management system + data leakage prevention, ensuring that data does not fall to the ground and files are not leaked." Wang Ning said.

After five months of multi-vendor testing, Ruijie Enterprise Tri-Core Cloud Desktop Solution stood out and became the first choice of Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research.

Desktop to the cloud: empowering pharmaceutical companies to transform digitally

At the visit, Zhang Weitao, regional development director of Ruijie Networks' Cloud Desktop Product Division, demonstrated the use of the cloud desktop to the reporters present.

It is observed that the desktop is extremely simple, and there is no host occupying the office space; the cloud terminal is hung behind the monitor, with small size and low power consumption; after turning on the cloud terminal and entering the desktop, its display interface is basically the same as that of a traditional PC; when the desktop position is changed, it is no longer necessary to replace the terminal together, as long as you log in to your cloud desktop account and password at the new workstation, you can perform convenient cross-terminal operations. Zhang Weitao introduced that in case of system failure, there is no need to reinstall the system locally, and the operation and maintenance personnel can complete the operation directly on the server side.

As the pharmaceutical industry has extremely high requirements for reliability, Ruijie adopted a converged technology architecture to ensure the high reliability of the entire cloud desktop. The high cost-effectiveness of its solution was eventually recognized by Tianjin Pharmaceutical Research Institute.

Zhang Weitao briefly explained the converged technology: "VDI thin terminals deployed in the office area achieve high office flexibility, and IDV fat terminals deployed in the laboratory achieve high reliability of key services. At the same time, TCI (Transparent Terminal Infrastructure) is used to uniformly manage the original PCs, achieving a perfect integration of desktop office flexibility and high reliability."

In addition to architecture, Ruijie Tri-Engine Cloud Desktop Solution also excels in security and operation and maintenance.

In terms of data security, Ruijie Cloud Desktop concentrates all resources on the backend cloud server, forms a large cloud storage resource pool through multi-copy storage technology, backs up each other, and improves physical security; through data transmission encryption technology, it can ensure the security of drug research data transmission; and there is also a snapshot function to ensure that key drug research business is more reliable and data is not lost. In addition, the solution can also realize unified peripheral control, USB bidirectional read and write control, and screen watermark function, thereby ensuring data security.

In terms of convenient maintenance, the solution can complete batch system image installation in 3-5 minutes through batch system delivery technology; and use application layering technology to achieve personalized updates of application software. Even if Windows blue screen occurs, the operating system can be restored remotely, which is especially suitable for special scenarios such as pharmaceutical production lines. In addition, the solution also has a complete log, alarm, and monitoring platform, which can provide administrators with 7*24 operation and maintenance data, and faults and anomalies can be located, traced back, and warned.

Taking root: Resource utilization efficiency has been significantly improved

As a subsidiary of Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, Tianjin Tiancheng New Drug Evaluation Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tiancheng") is also the actual deployer of the cloud desktop of Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research. Hu Jinfang, Executive Vice General Manager of Tiancheng, talked about the deployment and said that after deploying Ruijie Network's cloud desktop system, the operation and maintenance efficiency, data security, and resource sharing utilization have been significantly improved.

According to Hu Jinfang, in terms of improved operation and maintenance efficiency, in the past, maintenance personnel had to go to the site to resolve computer problems, but now, through the cloud desktop's fault reporting function, security issues can be quickly resolved in the background; in terms of improved data security, through cloud desktop's cloud sharing, archived cloud data is safer, avoiding the drawbacks of traditional disk burning and archiving; in terms of resource utilization, after adopting the cloud desktop system, the ratio of desktop hardware to personnel configuration has been reduced from the original 1:1 to 1:1.5, which has significantly improved equipment utilization and reduced hardware investment costs and equipment power consumption costs.