The students' surfing is supervised by 3TC staff who download the sites through the local server.

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While it does not image mobile devices, it can enable server backups of local data.

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Plugged into an Ethernet network, Corona--which has a built-in Ethernet board--can pull all the applications and data it needs directly off a corporate server, without the need for local storage.

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This includes a satellite to receive the movies, a cache server to hold them, a local area network to distribute them to the right screens, and media players and digital projectors for each screen.

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Back in the day we were asking our PCs to do the heavy lifting of running those resource intensive client-server applications that required lots of memory, local hard drive space and processing power.

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For example, cloud computing could benefit startups by making it cheaper to start a company, but this could put IT professionals who work at local offices out of work if servers all move to server farms.

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On top of speeding everything up as promised, we also noticed that our IP address appeared as that of the server we were connected to instead of our local one, which could be a bonus for those trying to access US internet from abroad.

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There's also an SD card slot interestingly, which could potentially be used as local DVR storage for quick pause and rewind without pulling from the main server.

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As corporations began deploying open client-server systems in recent years, many attached storage devices to their local servers.

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