At the same time end users are demanding ease-of-use and self-service to applications from their preferred computers, tablets and smartphones that may stretch what IT can deliver.

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We believe, these factors coupled with the fact that NetApp is one of the pioneers in virtualization will help it gain storage market share as more organizations turn to virtualized infrastructure as the preferred way of delivering and running applications going forward.

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Gallium Arsenide and Gallium Nitride are preferred for LEDs, certain photovoltaics, and some very high frequency radio applications.

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Thus, many schools saw applications fall during the late 1990s Internet boom when would be entrepreneurs preferred to launch straight into web start-ups.

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Available on Samsung 2013 Smart TVs, Smart home theater and Smart Blu-ray players, S-Recommendation checks preferred content across various services, including broadcast TV, streaming video-on-demand content, applications, social content and locally-stored content from personal devices to ensure there is always something to watch.

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And Microsoft used its Windows monopoly to help its applications division--the programmers who write software like Microsoft Word--by giving them preferred access to the complex Windows source code.

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