abstract:Remote Data Services (RDS, formerly known as Advanced Data Connector or ADC) is a Microsoft technology used in conjunction with ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) that allowed the retrieval of a set of data from a database server, which the client then altered in some way and then sent back to the server for further processing. With the popular adoption of Transact-SQL, which extends SQL with such programming constructs as loops and conditional statements, this became less necessary and it was eventually deprecated in Microsoft Data Access Components version 2.
Access to information on the cloud is a key to many consumer devices and the usefulness of services and storage through remotedata centers is a major enabler of tablet computers and smart phones.
Certainly Microsoft App-V, VMware ThinApp and Citrix XenApp app streaming cannot do this (XenApp Remote Desktop Services can do this but this requires Windows in the Data Center and so in that respect is no different to VDI).