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Originally Posted by dangonay
Personally, I think cloud is great for consumers as a place to store some documents (mainly personal stuff like photos/videos/music), but I don't know why a company would want to. You can get your own server for your office and still have your workers access it exactly the same as if they accessed the "cloud", except that the "cloud" belongs to you and resides at your company. And you can customize your server for your specific needs, something not so easily done with the "cloud".
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I do this already by using the VPN to remote into my desktop at work. This allows me to borrow any laptop at work, use my home laptop, or borrow family/friend's laptops while traveling. Its all secure cause everything happens on my desktop within the secure network, just the UI is sent via remote desktop to wherever I am.
I've been arguing at work to abandon the notion of a desktop completely. I want a virtual machine in server farm rather than a desktop. It'll have more processing power and memory, as well as be on the same physical networks at the other high speed servers (databases) so everything will run faster. Then the company never needs to upgrade my desktop again, since it'll just be a lightweight computers used to remote into my VM. Plus the company doesn't have to worry about my desktop failing or me backing up my work. The VM would be backed up when the servers are, so if it ever fails a snapshot could be easily restored and I'll be up and running again in minutes without bothering IT to fix my desktop.