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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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Latency: Will it undermine the most interesting 5G use cases?
One of the big topics at the OpenStack conference was how to prepare and implement a successful transition to 5G.…
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Got Fraud? 5 Tips to Prevent Fraud in New Applications
Fraud has been around since time immemorial. While companies and organizations have focused on how to detect and prevent fraud,…
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Why Telcos Need a Real-Time Analytics Strategy
Historically, telco analytics have been limited and difficult. Telco networks and the systems that support those networks are some of…
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Impressions from the Austin, TX Telco 5G/BCE Show
Volt Active Data has been providing value to telco communications solution providers since our beginnings back in 2009. Back then,…
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Data Consistency – Why You Need an ACID Database in Financial Services
In 2016, we partnered with Research Now to conduct a survey on a subject we take very seriously: data consistency.…
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MiFID II – You’re doing it wrong …
Many financial services organizations are well on their way to implementing a data management and reporting strategy to comply with…
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Got fraud? Tune in to our webinar on detecting fraud in Financial Services and AdTech
Large financial institutions deal with many types of fraud, predominantly transaction fraud. Transaction fraud occurs when a fraudster steals credentials,…
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A New Offering from Volt Active Data – Volt Active Data Pro
The lion’s share of Volt Active Data deployments are enterprise-size, comprising a dozen or more nodes, processing over 1 billion…
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Numbers Don’t Lie: Why the Telco Industry Needs to Transform
If data is a business’s biggest asset, than mobile and telco providers are poised for unprecedented growth – so long…
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3 Key Points from our webinar Preparing for a New Programmatic Adtech World with TripleLift
One of the reasons I love working for a leading-edge database company is that I get to talk to and…
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What the heck is personalization?
What I’ve learned from working in the software industry is that the word “personalization” can mean many different things to…
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Tech Spotlight: Top customer questions
We recently received a question from a customer who was looking for a quick way to repurpose some Volt Active…
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