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Microservices – What CSPs can Learn From IT

December 08, 2017

CSPs are in a critical period of transformation right now. Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are further driving up demands on the networks. Virtualization of appliances and systems is seen as a necessary step to add the agility to meet these increasing and evolving service demands. As vendors and CSPs are […]

December 8, 2017
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Keeping up with Header Bidding’s performance requirements

June 29, 2017

By: Briana Matejcik

Pretty much anyone who knows adtech will tell you that header bidding is the future of the industry. Header bidding allows publishers to field ad bids in the header of a webpage, which is before anything else (including other ad placements) loads. This allows publishers to establish a “premium” auction instead of the typical real-time bidding […]

June 29, 2017
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Latency: Will it undermine the most interesting 5G use cases?

June 19, 2017

By: David Rolfe

One of the big topics at the OpenStack conference was how to prepare and implement a successful transition to 5G. Unfortunately, this means that the age-old Telco bugbears will rear their ugly heads again, including latency. 5G, as a fundamental requirement, mandates a 1 millisecond latency from the datasource to its destination. Currently, most applications […]

June 19, 2017
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3 Key Points from our webinar Preparing for a New Programmatic Adtech World with TripleLift

May 10, 2017

By: Briana Matejcik

One of the reasons I love working for a leading-edge database company is that I get to talk to and work with many different kinds of companies. Data is everywhere, and companies across the spectrum are trying to harness that data to improve their businesses, whether that means accelerating their growth through more accurate targeting […]

May 10, 2017
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What Do Telcos Look for in a Fast Data Solution?

April 18, 2017

By: Briana Matejcik

Telcos run some of the most demanding data management environments in the business world. There’s the network environment: Telco network efficiency guidelines have extreme requirements for the availability and performance of network infrastructure, hardware, and software: known as “six 9s”, or 99.9999% availability. That equates to unscheduled downtime of no more than 31 seconds PER […]

April 18, 2017
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Lack of consistency is the hobgoblin of data management (and other survey results)

October 26, 2016

By: Briana Matejcik

We did a survey last year to see how enterprises viewed the need for “real time” (see https://www.voltactivedata.com/blog/worlds-apart-real-time-data-disconnect). Since we are leaders in the fast data space, we wanted to try to gauge where companies were on the real-time maturity curve. The results were interesting, which motivated us to do another survey – this time […]

October 26, 2016
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Billions and billions (of transactions)

October 20, 2016

By: Adrian Scholes

Billions and billions[1] of transactions are executed each and every day by production-deployed Volt Active Data applications. A back-of-the-napkin calculation puts the number north of 50 billion a day. The number is likely much, much higher. These billions of transactions are executed across a variety of innovative applications, applications not practical, or sometimes even possible, […]