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DTW Ignite brought together network operators, vendors, and systems integrators to talk about where telecom infrastructure is heading. This year we showed up differently than in years past. Together with…
FinNext 2026 brought together leaders from banking, fintech, payments, lending, and technology to talk about where the financial services industry is heading. AI, data infrastructure, cloud, and tokenization all got…
I've had some version of the same conversation dozens of times. An operator or platform team has invested heavily in an AI-driven decisioning system (fraud detection, network policy, real-time charging),…
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New Go language driver available for Volt Active Data
I’m happy to introduce a fully featured, high-performance Volt Active Data client for the go language. The golang client is…
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Fast Data vs. Big Data – Is it the classic case of David vs. Goliath?
I recently joined Volt Active Data as the lead Solutions Architect responsible for helping prospects, customers and partners in the…
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Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”
Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate…
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Volt Active Data 6.4 Passes Official Jepsen Testing
Volt Active Data hired Kyle Kingsbury, creator of the Jepsen Tests, to build a new, stronger, Jepsen test especially for…
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The two types of databases: Defines the World, or Reacts to the World
There’s a very simple distinction in the database world that tends to be ignored. Your database either: Or, it If…
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The role of a fast database in the NFV revolution
Innovation in the telecommunications industry has been led primarily by hardware vendors, offering differentiating capabilities to carriers. This has created…
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From the Internet of People to the IoT and the Analytics of Things – industry examples
This post is a contribution from Cheryl Wiebe, Partner of Advanced Analytics at Teradata West Region. If you follow Gartner,…
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Do you have an IoT checklist?
This blog was adapted from a post that first appeared on LinkedIn. There’s an interesting article in The Economist on consumer IOT.…
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A Question of Degree: Thoughts from the In-Memory Computing Summit
Volt Active Data was a sponsor of the recent In-Memory Computing Summit in San Francisco. I always enjoy going back…
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Introducing our new eBook, Architecting for the Internet of Things
Ryan Betts is one of Volt Active Data’s founding developers, and is currently our CTO. He’s been designing and building…
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Volt Active Data Cross Data Center Replication
Check out or documentation site to learn more about Volt Active Data Cross Data Center Replication. In section 11.3, you’ll…
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Continuous queries on streams in Volt Active Data using materialized views
We’ve added a new feature in Volt Active Data v6.6: support for joins in materialized views. We’re very pleased to…
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