What is Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR)?
Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) is an essential technology that facilitates data failover and disaster recovery. By replicating data across multiple data centers in different geographical locations, XDCR guarantees continuous service delivery to the end user by always having the backup of data in case one of the data centers is adversely affected. XDCR is [...]
What is Streaming Data?
Streaming data is data that flows in continuously from highly distributed sources. These data streams are constantly feeding data that data platforms can use or act upon dynamically and in real time, without the need to download or batch it first. Data streams come from a wide variety of sources and in many different formats, [...]
Why the Telco World Needs a New Form of Cross Data Center Replication
Today’s telco operators have two key needs: the need for their applications and data need to be in multiple physical locations at once to prevent data loss, and the need to respond within single-digit milliseconds to customer requests in order to maintain customer loyalty. But since geographic separation causes latency, there’s an inherent conflict in [...]
What is a microservices architecture?
A microservices architecture is a modular approach to application development that allows developers to deliver large, complex applications reliably and swiftly. Applications—such as those for customer management, charging, or billing—consist of many interconnected sub-tasks that work in tandem to deliver the desired business outcome. In the past, applications were designed as one whole piece—aka a [...]
How VoltDB Complements Vertica for Network Intelligence and Automation Applications
To deliver reliable, fast, and responsive services, providers demand real-time automation informed by actionable insights gleaned from the torrents of data and device telemetry events streaming through their networks. For ages, it seemed that one could have the speed or data granularity in network analytics, but not both, or that one could enjoy both speed [...]
What is real-time billing mediation?
Real-time billing mediation is the process of using up-to-the-second data usage information to proactively identify errors, prevent inaccurate invoicing, notify customers about usage thresholds, and more. Telecom operators and communications services providers use real-time billing mediation to retrieve usage data from different network equipment and convert it to a uniform format that a billing system [...]
