One of these services, video-on-demand, stores programming on a central server, where users can access it at the click of a remote.

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And armed with Citrix remote access software, they can run the same Windows apps a laptop can, just off a server.

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If they need access to our systems or networks we just provide them with a remote desktop connection to our server.

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