Data virtualization is a method of data management that refers to the compiling of all enterprise data in one place, regardless of its source. This is completed via a virtual data layer that ...

The tide is changing for analytics architectures. Traditional approaches, from the data warehouse to the data lake, implicitly assume that all relevant data can be stored in a single, centralized ...

There is a critical need among businesses today for a platform that enables them to access any kind of data from anywhere it lives without necessarily moving it to a central location like a data ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Business today moves faster than ever—and it’s driven by massive amounts of data to inform, ...

Today’s enterprise challenges demand near real-time access to data. While that seems to be a must, the application ecosystem continues to present a growing array of data persistence options, such as ...

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To fulfill the promise of big data, you need to abstract data from its underpinnings -- at both the data and infrastructure layers Big data in the cloud has so many potential functional service layers ...

I know you know this but I’ll say it anyway: Virtualization is the hottest ticket in the IT biz. But some people don’t understand there are multiple ways to virtualize a computing environment.

Asset “virtualization” extends and combines the technologies of 3-D visualization and virtual reality to a new, practical level for the life-cycle management of power industry equipment. All pertinent ...

"Evolution is not a force but a process; not a cause but a law." John Morley, On Compromise, published in 1886. There comes a point in technology evolution when the question of adoption moves from ...