"If I get fish and chips I always get him a bit of fish - he doesn't like the chips, " she said.

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As a result, he says, companies like Samsung and Intel have pioneered chips that are more reliable and easier to produce--innovations that have trickled into enterprise-level storage.

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Kaplan also thinks some of the biggest companies have been unfairly punished simply because they're big, and he is bullish on the prospects for blue-chips like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).

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