Category: Telco/5G
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What is Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR)?
Read more: What is Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR)?Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) is an essential technology that facilitates data failover and disaster recovery. By replicating data across multiple data centers in different geographical locations, XDCR guarantees continuous service delivery to the end user by always having the backup of…
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What is Streaming Data?
Read more: What is Streaming Data?Streaming data is data that flows in continuously from highly distributed sources. These data streams are constantly feeding data that data platforms can use or act upon dynamically and in real time, without the need to download or batch it first. Data streams…
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Why the Telco World Needs a New Form of Cross Data Center Replication
Read more: Why the Telco World Needs a New Form of Cross Data Center ReplicationToday’s telco operators have two key needs: the need for their applications and data need to be in multiple physical locations at once to prevent data loss, and the need to respond within single-digit milliseconds to customer requests in order to maintain…
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What is a microservices architecture?
Read more: What is a microservices architecture?A microservices architecture is a modular approach to application development that allows developers to deliver large, complex applications reliably and swiftly. Applications—such as those for customer management, charging, or billing—consist of many interconnected sub-tasks that work in tandem to deliver the desired…
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How Volt Active Data Complements Vertica for Network Intelligence and Automation Applications
Read more: How Volt Active Data Complements Vertica for Network Intelligence and Automation ApplicationsTo deliver reliable, fast, and responsive services, providers demand real-time automation informed by actionable insights gleaned from the torrents of data and device telemetry events streaming through their networks. For ages, it seemed that one could have the speed or data granularity…
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What is real-time billing mediation?
Read more: What is real-time billing mediation?Real-time billing mediation is the process of using up-to-the-second data usage information to proactively identify errors, prevent inaccurate invoicing, notify customers about usage thresholds, and more. Telecom operators and communications services providers use real-time billing mediation to retrieve usage data from different…
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Whither DBA: Will we still have them in 2026?
Read more: Whither DBA: Will we still have them in 2026?I recently fielded a question from a former co-worker who works as a senior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA). I spent much of my career with Oracle, and I’ve asked myself the same question: I am one of those DBAs who can see…
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The Four Things You Need for Contextual Decision-Making
Read more: The Four Things You Need for Contextual Decision-MakingWhy Enterprises Need Contextual Decisioning The world today is faster-paced than ever before, and the explosive growth of both 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) is generating a greater variety of data at extremely high velocity. As a result, enterprises are…
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Why We’re Excited About the Anthos Partnership
Read more: Why We’re Excited About the Anthos PartnershipRecently we announced we had joined Google Cloud’s 5G Edge/ISV partner initiative, and that we would be available in Google Cloud with Anthos as a platform for delivering applications and solutions to the network edge. It’s important to spell out why this…
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MWC21: Boots, or in Our Case, ‘Robot Wheels’, on the Ground in Barcelona
Read more: MWC21: Boots, or in Our Case, ‘Robot Wheels’, on the Ground in BarcelonaThis was a Mobile World Congress (MWC) like no other. Thanks to COVID, I was not there with a team of five-plus colleagues, pounding the halls, connecting with customers and partners, and attending executive meetings. Instead, I ‘manned’ our stand in #cloudcity…
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How to Use Contextual Decisioning to Optimize Business Outcomes
Read more: How to Use Contextual Decisioning to Optimize Business OutcomesMore and more organizations are seeking to operationalize their decisions into software-enabled platforms as part of their digital transformation. These same organizations have invested quite heavily (and recently) in big data and machine learning. This has led them to understand how fast…
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What’s an in-memory database?
Read more: What’s an in-memory database?An in-memory database is a modern data management system that stores data in the system’s main memory (most often RAM), as opposed to a traditional database that uses disk/device storage. When you process data in an in-memory database, only the RAM is…