Overview of Data Virtualization

What is Cisco Data Virtualization?

In today's dynamic environment, making informed and fast decisions is the key. With data spread across disparate systems, locations and across multiple environments such as on-premise, big data and cloud environments. It becomes critical to access this data seamlessly and convert it to information which empowers strategic decision making.

Cisco® Data Virtualization is agile data integration software that allows you to seamlessly access data irrespective of where it resides. Leveraging your investments in existing assets becomes easier with the unified view of data it provides. Cisco Data Virtualization software augments traditional data integration by combining traditional and new data sources to optimize query, compute, and network infrastructures.

Cisco Information Server

The Cisco Information Server forms the core of the Cisco Data Virtualization Platform. It is a Java-based server that accesses existing data noninvasively, federates disparate data, abstracts and simplifies complex data, and delivers the results as data services or relational views (that is, logical business views) to consuming applications such as business intelligence, analytic tools, and other information dashboards.

Why should you care?

• You can focus on developing innovative solutions and services without worrying about data origin and integration aspects of disparate data
• Data virtualization's agile integration approach lets you respond faster to ever changing analytics and BI needs and do it for less.
• Data virtualization adds data integration flexibility so you can successfully evolve your data management strategy and architecture.
• Easy to learn and highly productive to use, data virtualization lets you deliver more business value sooner.

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