Summary
Data is the world's most valuable resource and to be successful, enterprises need to become data-centric and leverage their data as a key differentiator. However, increasing data volumes, evolving data stores, and distributed datasets are making it difficult for enterprises and business users to easily find and access the data they need. Today's enterprise data architecture is fairly complex, with a plethora of data stores optimized for specific workloads. Data virtualization offers the silver bullet to address this unique challenge, and IBM's Cloud Pak Data is one of the key vendors in the market today. It is differentiated for its ability to scale and its integrated approach, which addresses data management, data organization, and data analysis requirements.
Finally, IBM's Cloud Pak for Data complements its data virtualization service with several containerized data stores that allow customers to persist data on the platform, while also allowing them...