Ruijie Cloud Desktop has emerged as a new force. Why do users prefer it?

[51CTO.com original article] Speaking of players in the cloud desktop market, we have to mention Ruijie Networks, the first manufacturer to propose "cloud desktops replacing commercial PCs". Recently, the data from the "2018 China Enterprise Terminal VDI Market Tracking Report" released by IDC, a global authoritative ICT market research organization, shows that Ruijie Networks' cloud desktop market share ranks among the top, with a total annual shipment of 288,000 VDI terminals, continuing to lead the desktop virtualization market.

There are many cloud desktop manufacturers at home and abroad. Why can Ruijie stand out and achieve such excellent results? In my opinion, this is inseparable from Ruijie's emphasis on the cloud desktop market, accurate grasp of user needs, and in-depth insight into user business scenarios. Traditional cloud desktop manufacturers are more based on technology platforms to make standardized products. Ruijie's approach is different. Based on the underlying technology, Ruijie combines user business needs with product design, calms down to study technology, and deeply cultivates scenario innovation to make the product more in line with user needs. How can such a product that suits the user's "taste" not be popular?

Innovation and upgrading continue, Ruijie Cloud Desktop launches three new products

The cloud desktop market is vast and the competition is fierce. How to expand your business territory? Every player in the cloud desktop market knows that innovation is a must, and Ruijie is no exception.

In early March, Ruijie held the 2019 Partner Conference in Nanjing with the theme of "Joining Hands Together, Flying Against the Wind". At the conference, Ruijie launched three new cloud desktop products: Classroom Desktop Cloud 2.0 for higher vocational education users, the minimalist digital learning center for general education users, and the cloud office 4.0 solution for users in all industries. Ruijie's emphasis on the cloud desktop market is evident from this.

He Zhengchun, product director of the Higher Vocational Education Cloud Classroom, said that cloud desktops have played a great role in the operation and maintenance management of higher education. The newly released Classroom Desktop Cloud 2.0 solution has improved the compatibility of the solution with teaching scenarios, operation and maintenance management capabilities, and course management capabilities. It also adopts the golden image strategy to achieve unified and standardized management of user desktops, reducing the workload in application upgrades, virus database upgrades, etc.

"A new round of teaching reform has begun, and the textbooks will be completely renewed. The supporting application software must naturally keep up with this change. However, new applications in the fields of AI, programming, artificial intelligence, and oral English teaching in primary and secondary schools have put forward new requirements for cloud desktops." Wang Yulin, product director of Ruijie Network's general education cloud classroom, pointed out that in order to cope with changes in teaching business and better support applications, the newly released minimalist digital learning center solution uses "converged computing" technology to place resource-intensive applications on local terminals to achieve pressure diversion, and then uniformly manage all cloud hosts and local applications to solve the application support problem.

Wang Yulin, Product Director of Pujiao Cloud Classroom, released a minimalist digital learning center

Speaking of the Cloud Office 4.0 solution, Qu Jingyang, the product director of Ruijie Network Cloud Office, said that the new solution has been completely upgraded in terms of hardware, software, and system compatibility. For example, in terms of hardware, one-click quick disassembly is implemented to meet the needs of disassembly; buttons for turning off the screen and adjusting the brightness are added to the all-in-one machine to meet the user's habit of using the computer. In terms of software, Ruijie uses operating system layering technology to divide Windows into the data layer, application layer, and system layer, and saves user data in the data layer. By remotely updating user applications, it meets the user's personalized needs while ensuring data security. In addition, in terms of system compatibility, through in-depth cooperation with Microsoft, Ruijie servers will be pre-installed with Windows and integrate golden images to provide services to users, making delivery and operation and maintenance simpler.

Cloud Office Product Director Qu Jingyang released Cloud Office 4.0

Go deep into the scene and innovate around "user taste"

It is reported that Ruijie Cloud Desktop has been widely used in classrooms, corporate offices, call centers, government halls, medical offices and other application scenarios. According to customer feedback, the performance of the cloud desktop is comparable to that of a PC, and it is superior to that of a PC in terms of management and operation. Behind this is Ruijie's continuous innovation around "user tastes".

Taking the application of the medical industry as an example, many hospitals have more than a dozen old computers in use. Why does this happen? Because some of their business systems, such as some hospital information systems, can only run on Windows XP due to historical issues. Since Intel's 4th generation, it no longer supports the XP system. PCs that cannot install the XP system naturally cannot carry the medical insurance system. Hospitals can only continue to use old computers, and some even have to go to the computer city to "sweep goods" and purchase a batch of old computers. After learning about this actual situation, Ruijie Cloud Desktop engineers found a solution. Through the semi-virtualization technology of "partial transparent transmission and partial simulation", they solved the pain points that PCs could not solve, and allowed the old XP system to run on the new platform of the 8th generation CPU. The high-performance integration of the old business system and the new hardware platform solved this major problem that plagued many hospitals.

Ruijie knows that only by understanding users' needs can it help users solve the pain points caused by business growth and cope with the challenges brought by digital transformation. This is also the secret of Ruijie cloud desktop gradually replacing commercial PCs.

From an innovator to a helmsman, Ruijie is forging ahead

According to the data from the Forecast and Analysis Report on the Development Prospects of China's Desktop Cloud Industry and Investment Strategy Planning by the Forecasting Industry Research Institute, the market size of my country's cloud desktop was only 34 million yuan in 2008, but by 2015, this figure had risen to 1.59 billion yuan, and is expected to reach 2.58 billion yuan by 2022. It can be seen that the cloud desktop market is in a development stage and its prospects are quite broad.

Facing such a vast cloud desktop market, what development plans does Ruijie have? What are your expectations for 2019?

Looking to the future, Ruijie said that in terms of market expansion, while serving existing industry customers well, Ruijie will continue to explore application scenarios in new industries; in terms of technology, it will continue to conduct research in transmission protocols, data storage technology, GPU virtualization technology optimization and other aspects.

The author learned that Ruijie Cloud Desktop has been at the forefront of the enterprise-level terminal VDI market share since 2014. At the 2019 Partner Conference, Ruijie made it clear that it hopes that Cloud Desktop will "completely replace commercial PCs"!

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