[symba06]

Hi Everyone!

 

Hopefully this is the right place for this question. I'm an experienced PC user but only now I'm starting to wrap my head around Cloud services and solutions.

 

I work as a Mechanical Engineer, and I rely on a lot of high-end engineering applications to perform my work. These applications also require a lot of resources, like fast processors and big chunks of data.

 

What I'm looking for now is a solution that allows me to my whole Windows 7 OS as it is (installed apps, current settings, current data) through the internet. Meaning, if my computer eventually breaks down or was lost or stolen, I'm able to access my OS immediately through a Cloud / VPS service / Virtual Machine, and can carry on the work like nothing happened.

 

Are there solutions like this, and if yes, what would you recommend? And most importantly, are these solutions safe?

 

Thank you!

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Interesting question. I know at work we offer up something like this to our enterprise customers.I think there are two ways to approach this.  One is just a straight backup up of our pc to the cloud.  You should be backing up your system anyway.  The other option is to have a virtual pc with the resources to perform your work. 

 

Here are some resources:

https://paperspace.com/pricing

amazon

microsoft

google

 

because your needing some high end specs for your cad work, you may find some of the solutions to be expensive, but 60$/month sounds like an interesting solution (paperspace) that you might look into.  They are the only ones who specially addressed your needs.

[starjax]

Interesting question. I know at work we offer up something like this to our enterprise customers.I think there are two ways to approach this.  One is just a straight backup up of our pc to the cloud.  You should be backing up your system anyway.  The other option is to have a virtual pc with the resources to perform your work. 

 

Here are some resources:

https://paperspace.com/pricing

amazon

microsoft

google

 

because your needing some high end specs for your cad work, you may find some of the solutions to be expensive, but 60$/month sounds like an interesting solution (paperspace) that you might look into.  They are the only ones who specially addressed your needs.

[symba06]

Hi starjax,

 

Thank you for your reply. I really appreciate it. 

 

Regarding backing up the PC to the cloud, is there a way to perform a system backup that, once restored on another computer, would include all the files and previously installed programs? Meaning, if I'd buy a new computer and I'd want to install the same applications as in my old computer, instead of installing every software one by one, I'd simply restore the old system backup, and everything would be automatically installed in the new computer after that. Is that possible?

 

I'll check out those resources. Thank you very much!

[starjax]

Crashplan and backblaze are the two backup services I am familiar with.  Crashplan has an faq that address's your question:  http://support.code4...ing_Your_Device