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 first, revenue second” model – by undertaking huge investments in […]
Volt Active Data is now available ‘by the hour’ on Amazon EC2. To get best results and optimal TCO from your Volt Active Data cloud instances, users need to understand how Volt Active Data handles IO, which we’ll discuss below. At the close of this blog, we’ll also review available IO options. Why would an […]
The development team at Volt Active Data recently ran Volt Active Data v4.2 against the Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB), an industry-standard performance benchmark for cloud databases. We ran our test on as realistic a cluster setup as possible: commodity hardware that we could easily book as spot instances on EC2, with features like durability […]
