Sentences with phrase «industry granddaddy»

Storage industry granddaddy EMC (EMC) entered the game by buying the firm ScaleIO in July 2013, and there are a number of competing startups, including Nexenta, Maxta, and Nutanix, as well as Red Hat Gluster and Ceph.

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Alliance, the granddaddy of the industry, would be taken out by a company that just five years ago was a struggling wholesaler of CDs, DVDs and videogames watching its business quickly become obsolete.

But the industry's granddaddy is IndexIQ, which essentially invented the category in 2009 with its flagship fund, IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker (qai).

«Carib is one of the granddaddies of the online wagering industry; like SportsInsights.com a true pioneer,» said Dan Fabrizio, Founder and CEO of SportsInsights.com.

TiVo can perhaps be considered the granddaddy of modern - day DVRs and set - top boxes, but it has been shoved to the sidelines by numerous rivals, including those from big names in the tech industry.