Edge vs IoT: What’s the Difference and Where Do They Converge?
As 5G networks become more ubiquitous, smart organizations are laser-focused on doing everything they can to deliver lightning-fast performance to their users to improve experiences, generate new revenue streams, and optimize efficiency. To this end, more and more companies across all industries — including telco operators, manufacturers, and utility companies — are investing heavily in [...]
Why Streaming Data Platforms Need True Real-Time Decisioning
Simply put: in the year 2023 and for the foreseeable future, businesses need to be able to process and analyze data in real time to remain competitive. Streaming data platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS Kinesis, and Apache Kafka are becoming increasingly popular, but not all of them are capable [...]
Why You Can’t Retrofit Real-Time Decisioning
Real-time decisioning has rapidly gained popularity within the tech zeitgeist, especially with its connection to streaming data. It seems like everything these days either happens in real time or it doesn’t happen at all. But companies are starting to run into a major issue with real-time data and real-time decisioning. They’re trying to fit a [...]
Edge IoT Platforms: Verticals and Use Cases Driving Growth (Webinar Q&A)
This blog outlines the Q&A part of the joint STL Partners and Volt Active Data webinar on Edge IoT platforms in February 2023. The speakers are David Rolfe, Head of Product Marketing, Volt Active Data; Joe Hurman, Senior Consultant, STL Partners; and Dalia Adib, Director, STL Partners. On Feb. 21 we hosted a webinar with [...]
How Will Edge and IoT Converge? These Use Cases Provide Some Hints
In recent years, two rapidly developing technologies have been transforming the way organizations build and use applications: edge computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). In the simplest terms: edge computing refers to processing data at or very close to where it’s generated; IoT refers to physical objects connected to the Internet. IoT devices have [...]
The Power of Real-Time Data Processing
Over the last ten years, there’s been a lot of talk about real-time data and real-time decisioning, and how they promise to transform how organizations operate. Up until recently, however, “real time” didn’t actually mean “real time” — it meant something closer to “as fast as is possible with current technology.” Fast-forward a decade, and [...]
