What Computer to Buy for Virtual Machines (Remote Employees)

d39833 on 21/11/2021 - 14:11

Hi,

I might be getting some remote employees to do some work for me. I have large volumes of data which I store on local (Australia) servers. I'd like the remote employees to connect to the local computers remotely (remote desktop?) and work on these local files. In this way I might have to buy several CPU's if I need multiple peoplw working at the same time. Are there other solutions?

I'm sure it should be possible to get a single powerfull machine and install multiple OS's as vm's on it, right?
Does any one have experience with this?

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Comments

  • Hybroid on 21/11/2021 - 14:14
    +3

    Why individual remote desktops instead of a NAS everyone can connect to? Or just use Office 365's SharePoint/OneDrive or similar software solution.

    • m3ndL3 on 21/11/2021 - 15:24
      +1

      So employees aren't accessing confidential data through their personal machines I assume

  • deme on 21/11/2021 - 14:47
    +6

    It seems like you should hire a competent person to implement this for you.

  • bobbieb on 21/11/2021 - 14:50

    I wouldn't want to be managing my own fleet of virtual desktop VMs… small, or otherwise.

    It may be worth looking at microsoft's latest Azure Virtual Desktop offering.

  • AndyC1 on 21/11/2021 - 15:52

    Looks like you have NOT thought of security and access. This is how companies get hacked and data is stolen.

    As such hire an IT security expert or get advice from an IT security expert on how to do it as you do not have the skills.

  • bazingaa on 21/11/2021 - 17:03

    Windows 365 ? You don't need any hardware and everything in cloud

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/business/compa…

  • d39833 on 21/11/2021 - 19:20

    As this is for a really early stage unfunded startup, we want to hack up somehting. The data is not confidencial.

  • No Username on 21/11/2021 - 19:23

    Google Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PC.

  • andrek on 21/11/2021 - 21:25

    Work in what? Code - use GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket. Documents - Google or Microsoft.

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