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One great thing (of many) about working in the data management space: there’s never a lack of twists and turns to keep things interesting. As Americans settle in with their families to give thanks for the things they are happy to have…
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Introduction NoSQL databases became “en mode” some time around 2012 and sprouted a database revolution that led many enterprises to replace their traditional RDBMS technology with NoSQL-based data platforms. What’s interesting now is how many of these companies are either regretting their…
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Note: This is the first part of a three-part blog series on NoSQL database technology. Introduction A lot of companies that end up as Volt Active Data customers started out by replacing a legacy RDBMS platform with a NoSQL database. Given the…
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Many enterprises strive to differentiate themselves from their competitors by providing jazzy new features and functionality. But it’s the businesses that are on 24 x 7 x 365 that get (and retain) the most customers, and they do this by having data…
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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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Business support systems (BSS)—specifically, charging and policy functions—hold the key to monetizing 5G investments for telecommunications companies and their partners. However, for this key to unlock new revenue for communication service providers (CSPs), there are a couple of things that need to…
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In 2020, Volt Active Data became easier to operate, easier to develop on, easier to integrate into your data pipeline, and, thanks to our latest Long-Term Support (LTS) release, V9.3, more resilient in production. Easier to Operate in Public and Private Clouds…
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We’re delighted to hear—and (re)announce—that our long-term partner, Openet, which was acquired by global media and communications leader Amdocs earlier this year, has been recognized as the 2020 Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan for its leadership and…
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IoT. Edge computing. Digital transformation. 5G. It seems we’ve been hearing all of these terms for a while now. While each has its own powerful implications for how companies will run and monetize business-critical applications moving forward, they all naturally overlap into…
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Over the last decade, SQL has fallen out of fashion and is now seeing a resurgence. As applications become more complex, people realize they need a data manipulation language, and SQL is the obvious choice as it’s a proven and well-known mechanism…
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Until recently, “Real Time” meant more or less whatever you wanted it to mean, as the majority of interactions took place at human time scales. As we move to an era where the majority of interactions will either be Machine To Machine…
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There’s a lot of talk right now about how 5G and the IIoT will increase volumes of ‘transactions’ driven by streaming events, but equally, there’s a lot of hand waving and vague definitions about what a ‘transaction’ actually is. As a consequence,…