In a recent webinar, featured speakers discussed how Freewheel used a real-time data platform to predictably scale their business by running Aerospike on AWS.

It can cost millions of dollars to develop and market a video game so it’s critical to online gaming companies that these games are highly successful. That means, of course, that the games must function extremely well with low latency, high availability, dependable performance and scaling capacity. If not, users may turn elsewhere in this highly lucrative and competitive market.

Big Data London is the UK’s largest data and analytics conference, and we at Aerospike are very excited to be a Silver Sponsor this year.

It’s no secret that consumers can be wary of companies seeking to collect their online personal data. They may worry about how the data will be used, who will have access to it, and if the data will be kept secure from fraudsters.

In a recent webinar on AI in the financial services industry, Stuart Tarmy, Aerospike’s global director of financial services industry solutions, explained that AI is currently used in a wide variety of financial service areas, from full-service and online brokerage firms to insurance to banks.

More companies are turning to data to improve the customer experience, but the problem is that many of them aren’t collecting the right data in the right way – and that means they fall short of offering the kind of personalized shopping that consumers desire.

Currently, about 80 percent of central banks in 66 countries – including 21 advanced nations – are exploring the issuance of digital currencies. Some 40 percent have evolved into pilot programs or experiments.

While the penetration of instant payment solutions today is relatively small compared with credit and debit payment volumes, it is fast gaining momentum in many countries, due in part to the surge in ecommerce during the pandemic.

Fraudsters have seized on the spike in online activity, due to the pandemic, to prey on businesses and consumers.