Surpassing Decentralized Data Management Woes with Data Virtualization

In this contributed article, editorial consultant Jelani Harper discusses how data virtualization enables organizations to surmount obstacles (i.e. data quality, schema, and data integrations that are foundational to data management) and to focus on benefits (i.e. remote collaborations characteristic of working from home, the takeoff of the cloud as the de facto means of deploying applications, and the shift to external sources of unstructured and semi-structured data). Supplementing it with mutable graph data models boosts its applicability to data of all types.