The New Information Fabric 3.0: Data Virtualization Delivered!

Eight years ago, Forrester invented the category of data virtualization with our vision of the "information fabric." The latest version -- version 3 -- of the information fabric has evolved to address even more pressing data problems, focusing on dynamic, real-time data services; it also accommodates new technology enhancements around big data, cloud, mobility, distributed in-memory caching, and dynamic services. All enterprises can benefit from information fabric to support new real-time analytics, predictive analytics, extreme transactions, and other workloads and patterns. This Webinar highlights current data challenges and the growing need for data virtualization to deal with complex data structures, volumes, and velocity. In addition, we review the information fabric 3.0 reference architecture and new data virtualization use cases.

Agenda:

• Current data issues that are increasing the pressure on organizations.
• Why every enterprise should consider data virtualization.
• Information 3.0 reference architecture: what's changed and why.
• New and emerging data virtualization use cases.
• Recommendations.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the benefits of and use cases for data virtualization.
• Appreciate how the various components of information fabric 3.0 fit together to address your real-world problems.
• Understand the top vendors delivering data virtualization capabilities.

Vendors Mentioned: Composite Software, Dendo Technologies, IBM, Informatica, Oracle, Red Hat, and SAP.