Category: Real-Time Use Cases

The 6 Rules for Achieving (and Maintaining) High Availability

March 13, 2024
In the age of big-data-turned-massive-data, maintaining high availability, aka ultra-reliability, aka ‘uptime’, has become “paramount”, to use a ChatGPT word.  Why? Because until recently, most computer interaction was human-to-computer, and humans are (relatively) flexible when systems misbehave: they can try a few more times and then go off and do something else before trying again [...]

Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway

February 29, 2024
Imagine the digital world as a bustling highway, where data packets are vehicles racing to their destinations. In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. Let’s unravel the mystery behind these terms and examine their significance in our everyday online experiences. Latency: The Waiting Game Latency is [...]

Introducing Volt Active(ISU): Zero-Downtime Upgrades to Improve the Engine While It’s Running

February 20, 2024
Enterprise customers that require ‘five nines’ availability need it as a guarantee, not just a vague promise. That’s why we’ve introduced Volt In-Service Upgrade  “Active(ISU)”, which allows you to upgrade clusters without having to shut anything down. When all the nodes have been updated, the features of the new version will become active. Active(ISU) will [...]

Got Data Platform TCO Issues? This Raspberry Pi Test May Interest You

February 06, 2024
Total cost of ownership (TCO) has become a major headache for most tech companies whose product and/or services rely on being fast while staying reliable and accurate. It’s wonderful if your applications run at the speed of light, but what’s that worth if they have downtime or drive your customer service agents insane with the [...]

Why IoT Deployments Require IT-OT Convergence

January 23, 2024
The rapid growth and proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way organizations collect, process, and utilize operational data.  As the global IoT market continues to grow rapidly — it’s expected to bring in $1.2 trillion in 2023 and $2.2 trillion by 2028 — enterprises are rethinking the way they process and [...]
Why V13.1 Is Our Most Important Release Yet

Why V13.1 Is Our Most Important Release Yet

January 16, 2024
Today we announced our latest release, Volt Active Data 13.1— giving our customers a whole new level of no-compromise real-time data processing.  You probably already know the gist, but let’s quickly review the highlights of what this version adds: In-service upgrades: ie, the ability to upgrade a Volt cluster while it’s running. ARM64 CPU support. [...]
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Why Retailers Need Real-Time Data Processing

January 10, 2024
The big shopping season may be over, but it’s never too late for retailers to prepare for the next big shopping surge – before it has a chance to break their stacks.  Many if not most retailers and ecommerce businesses depend heavily on the holiday season to meet revenue goals. According to one recent study, [...]

Top 5 Real-Time Data Processing Trends of 2023

December 06, 2023
2023 was a huge year for real-time data processing. Enterprises are more focused than ever using real-time data to guide the path forward, and things like AI are changing the game.  As technology continues to evolve, real-time data processing has transformed from something closer to a buzzword to something that’s actually achievable, especially with technologies [...]
Everything You Need to Know About AI Democratization

Everything You Need to Know About AI Democratization

November 09, 2023
Over the last year or so, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from something most people consider science fiction to an increasingly accessible technology anyone can use.  Thanks to the rise of tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E, AI has rapidly emerged as a transformative technology with the potential to revolutionize industries, enhance efficiency, and unlock new [...]
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New YCSB Shows Cost-Effectiveness of Volt at Scale for Amazon

October 31, 2023
Volt has been involved with the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) for some time. Every now and then we re-run the benchmark to see how we’re holding up. We recently re-ran it against newer Amazon hardware and discovered that: An ‘out of the box’ Volt configuration can easily hit just under 500K transactions per second [...]
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