Data Virtualisation - Where's the Value?

The Denodo Platform 5.0 (best described as a Data Virtualisation and Enterprise Data Services Platform) is a data virtualisation solution provided by the company of the same name.

The capabilities of Data Virtualisation meet our requirements for agile data provisioning: to access any data, regardless of its format, in any combination, with minimal latency.

Ian Pestell, Technical Director, of Composite Software EMEA and Philip Howard, Research Director, of Bloor Research give an overview of data virtualization.

This paper contains a brief consideration of Composite's technology, together with details of how it interrelates to Netezza, plus a discussion of potential uses of this combined technology.

IBM’s data integration products provide three methods for delivering data: ETL (extract, transform and load), which provides bulk (batch) data loading functionality; data federation, which supports virtual data delivery; and data replication, which allows incremental updates. The use of ETL…