A New Offering from Volt Active Data – Volt Active Data Pro
The lion’s share of Volt Active Data deployments are enterprise-size, comprising a dozen or more nodes, processing over 1 billion transactions a day. But often we hear from start-ups, small-medium companies, or independent ISVs who need Volt Active Data speed, high availability and low latency ACID guarantees, but on a slightly smaller scale. With that […]
Numbers Don’t Lie: Why the Telco Industry Needs to Transform
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 clicks, impressions, and purchases) and machine-to-machine interactions, requires a new […]
3 Key Points from our webinar Preparing for a New Programmatic Adtech World with TripleLift
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, whether that means accelerating their growth through more accurate targeting […]
What the heck is personalization?
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, Retail/IoT, eCommerce, Loyalty, Energy, and Travel. This edition will be […]
Tech Spotlight: Top customer questions
We recently received a question from a customer who was looking for a quick way to repurpose some Volt Active Data 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 synchronized copies of each record, distributed on different […]
What Do Telcos Look for in a Fast Data Solution?
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 to unscheduled downtime of no more than 31 seconds PER […]