Tag: real-time
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Telco Industry Trends: How BSS Will Change in 2021
Read more: Telco Industry Trends: How BSS Will Change in 2021It’s shaping up to be a massive year of growth for 5G, with major telecom providers like T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T competing for market dominance. Over the next several months, we should see large-scale domestic rollouts of 5G networks, as mmWave deployments…
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If Latency is Important, You Should Think Twice
Read more: If Latency is Important, You Should Think TwiceRedis recently announced a US$100M round of funding; a positive sign for the industry, especially in the current challenging environment. In the article, co-founder and CTO Yiftach Shoolman states ambitiously that “If latency is important, you should think twice before you use…
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What Telcos Can Teach Us About Industrial IoT
Read more: What Telcos Can Teach Us About Industrial IoTAn excerpt from our latest whitepaper, “Proactive Fraud Prevention for Enterprise IoT” Throughout the history of computing, a clear pattern has emerged of malign activity that exploits standards and norms, appearing almost as soon as the technology in question reaches critical mass.…
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A Reality Check for 5G Real-Time
Read more: A Reality Check for 5G Real-TimeWhile we applaud other vendors reaffirming what we here at Volt Active Data have been professing and delivering on, for several years, simply adding a few buzzwords doesn’t cut it. Without specific details, it merely adds to the confusion in the market…
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Using Data to Monetize 5G for Industry 4.0
Read more: Using Data to Monetize 5G for Industry 4.0There’s a lot of buzz around how 5G will impact industry 4.0, but there’s not a whole lot out there about why it’s important to consider upgrading to 5G to benefit your company’s bottom line. Seeing this gap, we worked with experts…
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6 Reasons Why Your Machine Learning Project Will Fail to Get Into Production
Read more: 6 Reasons Why Your Machine Learning Project Will Fail to Get Into ProductionThere is a massive difference between generating the input data needed by a Machine Learning model once (to prove a concept), and doing it continuously, indefinitely, at scale, and within short time periods. Years of experience working with disparate and imperfect data…
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How Volt Active Data Serves Machine Learning Models in Real-Time
Read more: How Volt Active Data Serves Machine Learning Models in Real-TimeIn my previous blog on big data analytics, we discussed how to apply your big data analytics to real-time applications. The idea is that, if you have built analytics on your data, the next step is to use the analytics directly in the…
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How to Increase Player Retention and ARPU in a Free-to-Play Market
Read more: How to Increase Player Retention and ARPU in a Free-to-Play Market2017 was a breakout year for mobile gaming. Even though games only accounted for 40% of the total mobile app downloads for 2017, a total of 80% of app spending in 2017 was generated by mobile games. Mobile game spending even out…
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Year in Review: Top 5 Blog Posts from 2017…
Read more: Year in Review: Top 5 Blog Posts from 2017……and What they Say About the Future Happy 2018 everyone! In keeping with the tradition of reflection at the start of a new year, we at Volt Active Data decided to take a look back at the highlights on our database blog…
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4 Sources of Latency and How to Avoid Them
Read more: 4 Sources of Latency and How to Avoid ThemEditor’s Note: This post originally appeared on November 1, 2017 on the InfoWorld blog. It is republished with permission. Even Google and Amazon can’t process data instantly—here’s how to combat latency in your real-time application Despite all the advances we’ve seen in…
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Gamers’ Real-Time Demands: More Challenging than NG+
Read more: Gamers’ Real-Time Demands: More Challenging than NG+Gamers want real-time offers and micro-transactions — but only if they are useful. This is a key finding from The Psychology of Waiting, a survey of 2,000 US consumers conducted by VansonBourne and sponsored by Volt Active Data. Almost 85% of consumers…
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Key Considerations for a Modern Database to Operate at Scale
Read more: Key Considerations for a Modern Database to Operate at ScaleModern applications have two primary needs: Performance The performance consists of two aspects: throughput and latency. Both are driven by applications becoming machine-driven i.e. API-driven. Humans will wait much longer than an API will since APIs have strict latency expectations due to…