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As data demands speed up, information management tools pave road ahead

SearchDataManagement  |  May 15, 2012

The research finds master data management, data governance or data virtualization to have a similar impact on data integration.

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The Benefits of Data Virtualization

Isnare  |  May 13, 2012

The major benefits of virtualization include reduction in CapEx, increase agility and streamlining.

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Kleiner’s Schlein Says Today’s Trends Worth 10 Times Web

Bloomberg  |  May 10, 2012

Ted Schlein, a managing partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, said the value created by companies in cloud services, data virtualization and mobile computing will be 10 times larger than that of the Internet.

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Big Data Won't Be Very Big Without Real-Time Automation

DBTA  |  May 9, 2012

The idea behind data virtualization is to allow users to query across different data sources in near real-time.

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BI data integration process challenged by real-time needs, 'big data'

SearchDataManagement  |  May 2, 2012

Federated and virtualized approaches to data integration and delivery create consolidated views of data from multiple sources for BI uses.

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Information Delivery 2.0 - Reference Architecture

Enterprise Architecture  |  April 25, 2012

Data virtualization core to converged architecture for information delivery.

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Getting Real About Big Data: The Tools

ITBusinessEdge  |  April 20, 2012

The ability to virtualize data is an advantage with Big Data systems

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6 keys to making better use of your data

Healthcare IT News  |  April 19, 2012

Data virtualization is a technique that allows multiple applications and multiple users to access and work with the data at the same time.

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Integration Competency Centers: Gateway to Data Virtualization

Utilizer  |  April 16, 2012

This article looks at the common organizational barriers to data virtualization adoption and applicable Integration Competency Center (ICC) strategies used to overcome these barriers.

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Data Mining and Data Virtualization

SOA World  |  April 12, 2012

Data Virtualization is becoming part of the mainstream enterprise data access strategy, mainly because it abstracts the multiple data sources and avoids complex ETL processing.

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Will IT Share the Fate of the Titanic?

Virtualization Journal  |  April 12, 2012

Like the proverbial iceberg, business leaders today are revealing just ten percent of their future plans in discussions covering analytics, mobile and cloud adoption.

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Big Data Showcase: Establishing the Infrastructure

.Net Developer's Journal  |  April 10, 2012

The Composite Data Virtualization Platform provides agile, lower cost data integration to overcomes data complexity and isolated data silos.

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IT Insights Brewing at the Data Virtualization Café

Virtualization Journal  |  April 5, 2012

New Microsite Serves Range of Data Virtualization Tastes

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Comcast: Data Virtualization Contributes to Outstanding Customer Care

DBTA  |  March 2012

Data Virtualization at Comcast enables access and retrieval of data from all sources in one step, thus automating the process and eliminating manual data movement.

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The Confusing Future of BI and Data Warehousing

TDWI  |  March 27, 2012

Thanks to a combination of social, mobility, cloud, Big Data, and other forces, business intelligence and data warehousing are on the cusp of profound transformations. The question is: which way are these technologies headed?

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BI Experts: No Time for BI Complacency

TDWI  |  March 27, 2012

Rapidly expanding implementation of mobile platforms, big data technologies such as Hadoop and MapReduce, and data virtualization -- to name just a few -- are shifting the ground beneath the feet of professionals in this industry.

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Data Virtualization – Part 1 – Business Intelligence

EMC In Focus Blog  |  March 22, 2012

To incorporate new data into the data warehouse physically isn’t responsive enough to the business need for information.

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How Pfizer uses data virtualisation to accelerate R&D

Information Age  |  March 16, 2012

“Data virtualisation allows us to rapidly prototype analytics solutions” - Dr. Michael Linhares, PharmSci, Pfizer

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Information Agility and Data Virtualization: A Thought Experiment

Wayne Kernochan’s Blog  |  March 16, 2012

In an agile world, what is the value of data virtualization?

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In depth: Data virtualisation

Information Age  |  March 16, 2012

According to research fellow Dr Michael Linhares, data virtualisation has cut the time it takes to deliver data-centric applications to users from months to just days.

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Business Process Improvement – Avoiding the Technology Trap

BeyeNetwork  |  March 15, 2012

Successful BPM requires successful information management. This may involve identifying and eliminating information silos using Data Virtualisation.

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Data Virtualization for Boosting the Agility of Business Intelligence Systems

Inside Analysis  |  March 12, 2012

Lately, data virtualization servers have become available that offer the right level of maturity, performance, scalability, availability, and security needed for today’s business intelligence systems.

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Now's the Time to Take the Leap into Data Virtualization

SYS-CON Media  |  March 13, 2012

Data virtualization benefits small and mid-sized organizations too!

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Is Data Virtualization the Fast Path to BI Agility?

Cloud Computing Journal  |  March 9, 2012

Agility is becoming a crucial property of each and every BI system, and data virtualization is key to achieving it

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Understanding data virtualization

BeyeNetwork  |  March 8, 2012

Data virtualization has enabled Compassion to both scale their BI infrastructure and meet demanding new information requirements much more easily and quickly than before.

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Quicker and better BI needed

IT Web  |  February 29, 2012

The biggest dilemma facing organisations today is how to manage business intelligence (BI) quicker and better.

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Pipedream or Possibility – Gaining a 360 Degree View of the Customer

Virtualization Magazine  |  February 27, 2011

Why data virtualization improves your probability of success.

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In Defense of Silos

ITBusinessEdge  |  February 27, 2012

Data virtualization lets you open up the data to the organization, without ripping or replacing complicated systems.

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Leading the Logical Data Warehouse Charge Has its Challenges

Gartner Blog Network  |  February 24, 2012

The logical data warehouse is already creating a stir in the traditional data warehouse market space.

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Why Your Business Will Value Data Virtualization

Cloud Computing Journal  |  February 23, 2012

Data virtualization enables IT to provide business with the information it needs with greater agility and lower costs than traditional data integration approaches and technologies.

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Silos are okay, even natural part of technology infrastructures

ZDNet  |  February 22, 2012

In our never-ending war against IT silos, the silos are winning. But maybe that’s something organizations can live with.

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Composite Software Unveils Version 6.1 of its Data Virtualization Platform

DBTA  |  February 17, 2012

Composite continues to push the envelope in terms of performance which is critical for the use of data virtualization for ever more complex and larger data sets.

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Data Virtualization: Changing our View of the Data Warehouse

BeyeNetwork  |  February 16, 2012

Data virtualization of the future will bring intelligent harmonization of data under a single vision

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Getting Down to Earth About Cloud Integration

ITBusinessEdge  |  February 8, 2012

Composite Software now markets itself as a data virtualization and federation solution offers cloud integration.

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Roadmap for Data Virtualization

SOAWorld Magazine  |  February 8, 2012

How data virtualization vendors will meet tomorrow’s information management challenges

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Data Virtualization Best Practices

Virtualization Journal  |  February 2, 2012

Five lessons from leading data virtualization adopters.

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Framing the case for enterprise data virtualization

SearchDataManagement  |  January 31, 2012

Data virtualization can help to pull together a broader set of information for business users to analyze, according to the Forrester Wave report.

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Forrester Wave: Data virtualization tools market

SearchDataManagement  |  January 26, 2012

Composite, which “supports some of the most complex data virtualization deployments in existence,” also offers a lower cost of ownership than larger players in the market, according to Forrester.

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Data virtualization tools: Are they right for you?

SearchDataManagement  |  January 24, 2012

Over the past 24 months, there has been a significant increase in data virtualization adoption.

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IT's focus shifts to data management

Information Age  |  January 24, 2012

Using a data virtualisation product from Composite Software, Pfizer was able to reduce the time required to produce a new report by 90%, which led to a 100% improvement in analyst productivity.

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Feeding the Elephant Peanuts and Making Pig Fly

RainStor Blog  |  January 23, 2012

Furthermore our data virtualization partner Composite Software allows data stored within RainStor on Hadoop to be seamlessly combined with other data sources around the enterprise without the need for large scale copy or transfer.

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The Time Is Right for Data Virtualization

Virtualization Journal  |  January 20, 2012

Data Virtualization gains the recognition and success it deserves according to Colin White of BI Research.

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Roundtable: Modern data integration best practices to be more agile

SearchDataManagement  |  January 19, 2012

The need for speed is provoking IT leaders to take a fresh look at modes of data integration, including data virtualization.

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Q&A: Moving Beyond Traditional Data Virtualization

TDWI  |  January 17, 2012

Composite Software EVP Robert Eve has co-written a new book on data virtualization. In this interview, Eve discusses best practices that emerged from the case studies, and explains why data virtualization enables business agility.

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Enabling Agile BI through Data Virtualization

The Virtual Circle  |  January 13, 2012

Data virtualization software is well suited to enable Agile BI by allowing teams to work at the logical level and thus only having to physicalize a smaller portion of the data.

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Top BI Resolutions and Trends for 2012 from Industry Experts

Tibco Spotfire BI Blog  |  January 4, 2012

There has been a great deal of buzz about data virtualization over the past couple of years and top vendors for [data virtualization] have solid customer cases to prove the value.

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Data Virtualization Adoption Propelled by Significant Business Benefits

Virtualization Journal  |  January 3, 2012

Faster, cheaper, better...data virtualization middleware platforms provide critical data integration capabilities.