Cloud Migration for Telcos – Key Considerations
It seems like everyone is moving to the cloud lately, regardless of industry. Telcos are the process of doing the same – but there’s a lot of catching up to do. Historically, Telcos have built proprietary, monolithic architectures to support their customers in a “risk first, revenue second” model – by undertaking huge investments in […]
Connecting Volt Active Data to Amazon AWS Kinesis Streams
Volt Active Data includes interfaces – both import and export – to many other applications and systems in the broader ecosystem of big and fast data, including the cloud. A recent integration, released in Volt Active Data v6.6, allows system builders to connect Volt Active Data in either data producer and data consumer roles with […]
What is Innovation Week at Volt Active Data?
Recently we held our Q2 Innovation Week, culminating in presentations and voting on the innovation projects created by our engineering staff. Volt Active Data engineering is a Agile scrum organization, with two week sprints, and product releases every other sprint. Innovation week occurs one week every quarter. During this week engineers work on a self-directed […]
Fast Data Pipeline Design: Updating Per-Event Decisions by Swapping Tables
Volt Active Data was one of the first companies to enable a new modern breed of applications, applications that combine streaming, or “fast data”, tightly with big data.We call these applications Fast Data Pipelines. First, a quick high-level summary of the fast data pipeline architecture: The first thing to notice is that there is […]
Who will win in the IoT?
Let’s talk about The Internet of Things, or “IoT”. You cannot turn a page lately in the technology press and not see those three letters. The buzz is that IoT is a revolution. IoT is transformative. IoT is unavoidable – all true. Some suggest Internet of Things (IoT) is the next big paradigm shift – […]
Volt Active Data v7.4 Released
Exciting news – this Volt Active Data v7.4 release has the first batch of contributions by our summer interns! Here are some of the improvements and features in the release: DR/XDCR – in a multi-cluster environment, you can now ask a cluster to drop out with 1 command, voltadmin dr drop. We also added a new […]
