data integration

Welcome to Data Virtualization’s New Frontier

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Where We’ve Been When Judith Davis and I co-authored Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility in 2011, we identified the five most popular Data Virtualization usage patterns at that time. “Data virtualization is a versatile data integration solution that can be deployed to solve a wide range of data integration […]

July 7, 2015

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Maximizing Your Return on Investment From Data Virtualization Customers

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Forrester Consulting recently conducted a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study and examined the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying the Cisco Data Virtualization solution. This provides readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of investing in the Cisco Data Virtualization solution for their organizations. Forrester gathered data through […]

May 12, 2015

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Turning Data Challenges into Business Opportunities

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At the recent Gartner BI Summit in Las Vegas, there was a lot of discussion about the paradigm shift underway in business intelligence (BI) and analytics. Business’s need for agile data access and self-service, combined with IT’s inability to satisfy this need, is causing disruption to traditional models and shifting the balance of power from […]

March 3, 2015

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Three Big Data Integration Plays to Drive More Value from Big Data

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Big data and analytics are changing the competitive playing field. Winners will find ways to turn unprecedented growth and complexity of big data, cloud, IoT devices and more into competitive advantage. The Value of Big Data Integration Big data itself can provide significant insight, impact and advantage. These outcomes can be multiplied when big data […]

November 11, 2014

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New Research Identifies How to Accelerate Data Virtualization Adoption

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The challenges of data management are getting exponentially harder. These ever-increasing data quantities, diversity and distribution are revolutionizing data management, opening the door for new solutions such as data virtualization. Data virtualization fulfills a range of business demands for data, supports high iteration and fast response times, all while saving significant IT costs. Radiant Advisors […]

October 14, 2014

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Analytics for an IoE World

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I recently wrote about how Cisco is helping customers more effective manage massive amounts of data, types of data and unprecedented distribution of data. This will be one of the toughest challenges brought on by the Internet of Everything (IoE) and, with solutions such as Data Virtualization and Big Data Warehouse Expansion, Cisco is enabling […]

October 9, 2014

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Aligning Solutions to Meet our Customers’ Data Challenges

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In our previous big data blogs, my Cisco associates have focused on the topic of building the best infrastructure for long-term success with big data. I’d like to start a new chapter in the series, focusing on building the right data strategy and analytics solutions. Today, people, process, data and things function together through a […]

August 21, 2014

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Innovation Distinguishes Between a Leader and a Follower

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Steve Jobs is arguably the most amazing innovator of our times.  I recently read some of his thoughts on innovation. His statement “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower,” caused me to reflect upon my eight-year association with data virtualization, and consider who in the IT analyst community have been the innovative leaders. Since […]

June 4, 2014

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Active Archiving with Big Data

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Historical data is now an essential tool for businesses as they struggle to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, manage risk and perform predictive analytics that help improve business outcomes. While recent data is readily accessible in operational systems and some summarized historical data available in the data warehouse, the traditional practice of archiving older, detail-level […]