Category: Volt Capabilities
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Volt Significantly Faster, and Cheaper, than Intel on (AWS) ARM
Read more: Volt Significantly Faster, and Cheaper, than Intel on (AWS) ARMMission-critical applications require great performance without breaking the bank. In this light, we are always seeking to prove Volt’s value against other data platforms for supporting applications that need to be fast without compromising on things like accuracy, consistency, or resiliency. As…
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The 6 Reasons Fintech Apps Require Real-Time Decisioning
Read more: The 6 Reasons Fintech Apps Require Real-Time DecisioningIn the fast-paced world of financial technology (fintech), real-time decisioning has become a cornerstone of innovation and success. Fintech apps are reshaping the financial landscape by offering users unprecedented convenience, speed, and personalization. A recent study found that fintech app users increasingly…
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What is Intelligent Manufacturing?
Read more: What is Intelligent Manufacturing?Smart manufacturers are always looking for ways to decrease operating expenses, increase overall efficiency, reduce downtime, and maximize production. To this end, more and more manufacturers are investing in intelligent manufacturing technology that enables them to create highly adaptive, efficient, and responsive…
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The 5 Main Challenges With Monetizing AI and ML Data (and How to Fix Them)
Read more: The 5 Main Challenges With Monetizing AI and ML Data (and How to Fix Them)Monetizing AI/ML data has become a hot topic for enterprises, and rightly so: We appear at or near ‘peak AI’. It’s absolutely everywhere, and we’re even seeing companies like Dell put out expensive TV commercials talking about what they can do with…
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OEMs: The 6 Questions to Ask Your Data Platform Vendors
Read more: OEMs: The 6 Questions to Ask Your Data Platform VendorsOEMs face incredible challenges today. They’re being asked to do more with less as supply chain and operation overrun issues create a legitimate OEM crisis. And yet, more often than not, OEMs don’t consider their underlying tech stack technologies until they are…
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Balancing Low Latency, High Availability, and Cloud Choice
Read more: Balancing Low Latency, High Availability, and Cloud ChoiceBalancing Low Latency, High Availability and Cloud Choice Cloud hosting is no longer just an option — it’s now, in many cases, the default choice. But the cloud computing market, having grown to a whopping $483.9 billion, may finally be starting to…
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What is a Private 5G Network?
Read more: What is a Private 5G Network?To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in private 5G networks, also known as private cellular networks or just “private 5G” (not to be confused with virtual private networks, which…
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Top 3 Kafka Streams Challenges
Read more: Top 3 Kafka Streams ChallengesWe’ve been writing a lot about challenges lately. We recently wrote about API challenges – now we’re discussing challenges with Kafka Streams. Volt is very big on Kafka, as we specialize in complementing it in a really powerful way to allow enterprises to get the most…
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ACID vs CAP: What’s the Difference?
Read more: ACID vs CAP: What’s the Difference?Acid transactions, ACID properties, and the CAP theorem are two important concepts in data management and distributed systems. It’s unfortunate that in both acronyms the “C” stands for “Consistency,” but actually means completely different things. What follows is a primer on the…
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New Benchmark: Volt Very Cost-Effective at Scale on Amazon Hardware
Read more: New Benchmark: Volt Very Cost-Effective at Scale on Amazon HardwareVolt has been involved with the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) for some time. Every now and then we re-run the benchmark to see how we’re holding up. We recently re-ran it against newer Amazon hardware and discovered that: We’ve also made it possible…
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Why Volt is the OLTP Data Platform of Choice
Read more: Why Volt is the OLTP Data Platform of ChoiceA lot of companies use Volt Active Data for classic Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), but why would you pick Volt as an OLTP data platform and how would a Volt-based OLTP data platform differ from other data platforms in its handling of OLTP?…
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Volt Achieves 4.1 Million TPS on Supermicro Edge Hardware
Read more: Volt Achieves 4.1 Million TPS on Supermicro Edge HardwareWe’re excited to announce very strong results from benchmarking Volt Active Data on Supermicro edge hardware. Supermicro is a global technology leader committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, Metaverse, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. They are a rack-scale total IT…