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 an environment of vendor lock-in and staggered progress due to lack of agility. A side effect of this is equipment and infrastructure obsolescence at a rate that is not desirable for carriers. At the same […]
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, Forrester and other industry analysts, you’re probably a reader of Gartner’s ‘Hype Cycles’ and Forrester’s ‘Waves’. According to Gartner, IoT is at the top of the Hype Cycle, and is forecast to deliver economic value […]
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. Here's an interesting excerpt: Providers have focused on the home, touting products such as coffee pots that turn on when the alarm clock rings, lighting and blinds that adjust to the time of day, and [...]
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 to San Francisco. I stayed at a cool flat on Nob Hill and the show was enjoyable and productive – we had some great conversations with attendees and even other sponsors there. The frustration came […]
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 distributed systems and high-performance infrastructure software for almost 20 years. Chances are, if you’ve used the Internet, some of your ones and zeros passed through a slice of code he wrote or tested. We’re pleased […]
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 learn step-by-step instructions for setting up and running cross datacenter replication (XDCR) between two or more Volt Active Data clusters. The sections describe how to: Design your schema and identify the DR tables Configure the […]
