If data is a business’s biggest asset, than mobile and telco providers are poised for unprecedented growth – so long as they have the ability to analyze and act on data in real-time. Making the most of vast streams of data from subscribers’ devices (think...
One of the reasons I love working for a leading-edge database company is that I get to talk to and work with many different kinds of companies. Data is everywhere, and companies across the spectrum are trying to harness that data to improve their businesses,...
What I’ve learned from working in the software industry is that the word “personalization” can mean many different things to many different people. My intent in this blog series is to explore the different meanings as they pertain to various industries: Mobile/Utilities, Gaming, Advertising Technology,...
We recently received a question from a customer who was looking for a quick way to repurpose some VoltDB production servers to create a disaster recovery site. The customer had a 5-node cluster with a k-safety factor of 2, which means the cluster maintains three...
I recently fielded a question from a former co-worker who works as a senior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA). I spent much of my career with Oracle, and I’ve asked myself the same question:I am one of those DBAs who can see Oracle's market share gradually...
Telcos run some of the most demanding data management environments in the business world. There’s the network environment: Telco network efficiency guidelines have extreme requirements for the availability and performance of network infrastructure, hardware and software: known as “six 9s”, or 99.9999% availability. That equates...
There are three ways to interact with the database in client / server computing:Play “Twenty Questions” with SQL statements; Move all the data to the client, and then back again; and, Use a stored procedure to move the problem to the server.Of these, using...
VoltDB is now available ‘by the hour’ on Amazon EC2. To get best results and optimal TCO from your VoltDB cloud instances, users need to understand how VoltDB handles IO, which we’ll discuss below. At the close of this blog, we’ll also review available IO...
Some time ago, a mentor of mine advised me to listen more than I spoke. He told me the secrets to building a successful company: listen to your customers to understand the true value of what your company offers. Listen to your employees to understand...
This blog was originally posted on the ChartiO Blog on 3/14/17. It’s never been more important to know what’s happening now Pretty much every technological development we are seeing – be it IoT, augmented reality or any one of the thousand other changes happening right now -...