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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
Walking the floors of MWC this year, one thing was immediately clear to me: Agentic AI has officially moved out of the experimental labs and into active production environments. But…
At the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in March 2026, the conversation kept returning to the same problem: organizations have built serious streaming infrastructure, but they still can't get authoritative…
The transition to 5G has fundamentally altered the performance expectations placed on the BSS layer. To meet the Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) targets of 3GPP standards, network functions like…
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Edge vs IoT: What’s the Difference and Where Do They Converge?
As 5G networks become more ubiquitous, smart organizations are laser-focused on doing everything they can to deliver lightning-fast performance to their users…
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Why Streaming Data Platforms Need True Real-Time Decisioning
Simply put: in the year 2023 and for the foreseeable future, businesses need to be able to process and analyze…
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Why You Can’t Retrofit Real-Time Decisioning
Real-time decisioning has rapidly gained popularity within the tech zeitgeist, especially with its connection to streaming data. It seems like everything…
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Edge IoT Platforms: Verticals and Use Cases Driving Growth (Webinar Q&A)
THIS BLOG OUTLINES THE Q&A PART OF THE JOINT STL PARTNERS AND VOLT ACTIVE DATA WEBINAR ON EDGE IOT PLATFORMS IN FEBRUARY…
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How Will Edge and Industrial IoT Converge? These Use Cases Provide Some Hints
In recent years, two rapidly developing technologies have been transforming the way organizations build and use applications: edge computing and the Industrial Internet…
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The Power of Real-Time Data Processing
Over the last ten years, there’s been a lot of talk about real-time data and real-time decisioning, and how they promise to…
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Top 5 Apache Kafka Use Cases: When to Use Kafka
Apache Kafka is now the official gatekeeper of streaming data. It’s a distributed data store designed and perfectly calibrated to ingest…
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5 Things to Know About Open API Adoption
The adoption of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), open and otherwise, has become a ‘topic du jour’. API usage continues to surge and…
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Volt Active Data 12.0 Now Available
We’re very excited to announce that Volt Active Data 12.0 has been released and is now available! This release is…
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Kafka Event Stream Processing at Scale: Common Kafka Challenges
Everyone has Kafka issues. Well, maybe not everyone, but most companies that end up using Apache Kafka in any meaningful…
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Why Monetizing 5G is Becoming a Reality
Last week I had the chance to speak in two separate panels at RCR Wireless’s 5G Monetization Forum: “Creating a Win-Win…
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5 Data Trends to Watch for in 2023
As 2023 gets going, most companies are still pretty obsessed with “data”—as we are. Data is “the new oil”. You…
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