It seems like everyone is moving to the cloud lately, regardless of industry. Telcos are the process of doing the same - but there’s a lot of catching up to do. Historically, Telcos have built proprietary, monolithic architectures to support their customers in a “risk...
VoltDB includes interfaces – both import and export – to many other applications and systems in the broader ecosystem of big and fast data, including the cloud. A recent integration, released in VoltDB v6.6, allows system builders to connect VoltDB in either data producer and...
Recently we held our Q2 Innovation Week, culminating in presentations and voting on the innovation projects created by our engineering staff. VoltDB engineering is a Agile scrum organization, with two week sprints, and product releases every other sprint. Innovation week occurs one week every quarter....
VoltDB was one of the first companies to enable a new modern breed of applications, applications that combine streaming, or “fast data”, tightly with big data.We call these applications Fast Data Pipelines.First, a quick high-level summary of the fast data pipeline architecture: The first thing to...
Let’s talk about The Internet of Things, or “IoT”. You cannot turn a page lately in the technology press and not see those three letters. The buzz is that IoT is a revolution. IoT is transformative. IoT is unavoidable - all true. Some suggest Internet...
Exciting news - this VoltDB v7.4 release has the first batch of contributions by our summer interns! Here are some of the improvements and features in the release:DR/XDCR - in a multi-cluster environment, you can now ask a cluster to drop out with 1...
Pretty much anyone who knows adtech will tell you that header bidding is the future of the industry. Header bidding allows publishers to field ad bids in the header of a webpage, which is before anything else (including other ad placements) loads. This allows publishers to...
Many VoltDB customers are creating externally-facing applications which face the potential of being hacked, with the applications and/or data being used in some fraudulent manner that can cost the businesses considerable time, effort and money. In addition, some of our customers, such as WhiteOps, have...
One of the big topics at the OpenStack conference was how to prepare and implement a successful transition to 5G. Unfortunately, this means that the age-old Telco bugbears will rear their ugly heads again, including latency. 5G, as a fundamental requirement, mandates a 1 millisecond...
Fraud has been around since time immemorial. While companies and organizations have focused on how to detect and prevent fraud, new technologies and new applications mean that the issue of fraud has turned into a billion dollar thorn in the side of industries.Our webinar,...