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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
As we move through 2026, three major shifts are converging to fundamentally change how organizations build and operate mission-critical systems. On the surface, they appear distinct. But they share a…
The Problem Every Enterprise Recognizes Every enterprise today faces the same fundamental challenge: critical information lives in silos, and by the time decisions get made, the moment has already passed….
Why Testing Matters in Modern Engineering Modern engineering methodologies emphasize fast feedback loops. In most cases, these loops connect product owners and development teams, with automated tests serving as the…
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Be First to Value with a Mobile-aware Fast Data Strategy
It’s a land grab out there with new companies coming to market every day with cool new applications and services.…
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What’s missing from IoT thinking: side effects
IoT data management platforms must manage both data in motion (fast data) and data at rest (big data). As things…
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Guest blog: Volt Active Data for easy HTTP ingestion
Jeremy Winters We thank Jeremy Winters of Volt Active Data partner Full360 for this guest post, which first appeared on…
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Winning now and in the future: where Volt Active Data shines
2015 was a big year for Volt Active Data. Our product improved as we added exciting features and invested in…
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Before & After – using Volt Active Data in Financial Services
Choosing a database is a complex affair. Is performance the most important factor in the decision? Is the selection constrained…
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Disrupters Use Fast Data to Create Advantage – So Can You
The overwhelming availability of fast data, the datafication of humanity, is igniting a new era of innovation and reshaping industries.…
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ACID: How to screw it up!
In my previous post, I described four applications (three implemented, one an example) that require, or at least strongly benefit…
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Managing Fast Data in a Content Delivery Network
MaxCDN is a content delivery network (CDN) provider that emphasizes reducing the latency and increasing the reliability of its rich-content…
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Apps that need ACID
There’s a lot of discussion about the value of consistency and ACID transactions in data management. I thought it would…
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451 Research Report “Points & Polygons: Volt Active Data adds Geospatial Support with v6.0”
Jason Stamper, lead analyst at 451 Research, reported today on Volt Active Data’s newest software release, v6.0. As Stamper points…
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Why the Innovators of Data-Intensive Apps Use the Cloud
I recently met with a bunch of Volt Active Data customers. These are companies in the business of data and…
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Introducing Geospatial Capabilities in Volt Active Data v6.0
As part of our 6.0 release, we’ve added new data types and functions that let you work with geospatial data…
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