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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
The current discourse around AI is fixated on the "Brain" – Large Language Models (LLMs) and the generative capabilities of agents. But for the enterprise, a brain without a nervous…
In 2025, real-time decisioning shifted from a technical ambition to a business requirement. As streaming, AI, and edge computing matured, organizations were forced to rethink how quickly, consistently, and safely…
In mid-October 2025, a single race condition in the DNS automation layer behind Amazon DynamoDB triggered one of the largest cloud outages in recent memory. Tens of thousands of businesses…
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It’s Time to Unlock the Previously Hidden Value in the Sub-10 Millisecond World
Until recently, “Real Time” meant more or less whatever you wanted it to mean, as the majority of interactions took…
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Eventual Consistency and 5G Won’t Play Well Together
5G has a headline requirement for 1ms latencies. Legacy RDBMS products can’t come anywhere near this. Many newer database products…
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Streaming Events: Are you Storing Decisions or Taking Them?
There’s a lot of talk right now about how 5G and the IIoT will increase volumes of ‘transactions’ driven by…
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Do You Have Scooby-Doo Transactions or Real Ones?
SCOOBY-DOO and all related characters and elements © & ™ Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers. My youngest child recently went through…
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If Latency is Important, You Should Think Twice
Redis recently announced a US$100M round of funding; a positive sign for the industry, especially in the current challenging environment.…
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Volt Active Data Releases V10
Volt Active Data has just released V10 – a momentous milestone in our evolution from a very fast, highly-available ACID…
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What Telcos Can Teach Us About Industrial IoT
An excerpt from our latest whitepaper, “Proactive Fraud Prevention for Enterprise IoT” Throughout the history of computing, a clear pattern…
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A Reality Check for 5G Real-Time
While we applaud other vendors reaffirming what we here at Volt Active Data have been professing and delivering on, for…
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5 Reasons Why the Amdocs Acquisition of Openet is Good News for the 5G Space
Last week, Amdocs, the global leader in communications and media, acquired Openet. Here at Volt Active Data, we are thrilled…
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The Hidden Inflection Point Webinar: Q&A – Edge Computing
Recently, experts from Volt Active Data presented a webinar, “The Hidden Inflection Point in 5G: When the Changing Definition of…
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Using Data to Monetize 5G for Industry 4.0
There’s a lot of buzz around how 5G will impact industry 4.0, but there’s not a whole lot out there…
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Changing Definition of Real-Time
A lot of the mainstream media coverage of 5G revolves around the potential benefits for the individual consumers, such as…
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