The WarpDrive card also helps to minimize hardware requirements, reducing initial investment costs and eliminating points of failure for greater overall system reliability.

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While Apple maintained the top spot for the ninth time in a row through US customers' happiness with the hardware design and ease of use, most of its major competitors made big strides in reliability, speed and camera quality in the past half-year -- to the point where there was a virtual dead heat for second place between HTC, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung.

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On hardware, IBM essentially has a monopoly within mainframes which remains superior to x-86 servers in terms of reliability, utilization, security and throughput which will see an upgrade in 2013.

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