Forrester Research Report: Information fabric--Enterprise Data Virtualization (part V, digest translation) _ Virtualization

Characteristics of Information Fabric
Characteristics of information Fabric

There are nine core requirements that characterize the information fabric, including the ability to:
Information fabric has 9 core features, with the following capabilities:

Virtualize data across disparate data sources. Virtualization of data across heterogeneous data sources. Regardless of the physical location of data, the application should is able to make a single request to get a comprehensiv E View of enterprise data. Regardless of the physical location of the data, the application should be able to obtain a complete view of the enterprise data through a single request. The fabric integrates various data sources in real time and maintains data integrity seamlessly. Fabric is responsible for real-time integration of different data sources and seamless maintenance of data integrity.

Minimize complexity. Reduce complexity to the greatest degree. Information fabric must minimize complexity and hide heterogeneity by automating various, processes and procedures and by U Tilizing Industry-standard interfaces. By automating various processes and processes and leveraging industry-standard interfaces, information fabric must minimize complexity and hide different components.

Integrate with the other grids. Integration with other grids. The information fabric should is able to support all types of data and compute and resource grids to take advantage of het Erogeneous compute and storage farms. Information fabric should support all data types, calculations, and resource grids to leverage heterogeneous computing and storage resource clusters. It should is able to utilize unused computing resources from mixed servers and desktops. It should also be able to take advantage of idle computing resources in mixed servers and desktop environments.

ADAPT to business policies and rules. Adapt to business rules and policies. The fabric should is able to adapt to changing business policies and rules. Fabric must be compatible with changing business rules and policies. These policies should automatically are applied to all information fabric components to ensure. To ensure consistency, these policies should be automatically applied to the various components of the information fabric.

Centralize administration of fabric. Centralize the management of fabric. The fabric must allow for centralized administration to its distributed cache, metadata repository, and data access and MA Nagement functions. Centralized management requires distributed buffering, meta data storage, and data access management capabilities for fabric.

Integrate seamlessly with enterprise architectures. Seamless integration with Enterprise architecture. Applications should require minimal changes or none at all, and should is able to use existing Industry-standard Like XML, SOAP, SQL, and ODBC/JDBC to access business data using the fabric. Applications should be done without modification or with minimal cost modifications to access business data through fabric using existing industry-standard protocols such as XML, SOAP, SQL, and ODBC/JDBC.

Support all types of data and data sources. Supports all data types and data sources. The fabric should be able to support all types of data whether it is structured, semi-structured (XML), or unstructured (E mails, images, audio, video, or content). Fabric must be able to support all data types, whether structured, semi-structured (XML), or unstructured (e-mail, pictures, audio, video, or content). It should support data from databases, files, backups, and other devices. It should be able to support data from databases, files, dumps, and other devices. And it should be able to integrate all this forms of information into a single view, enabling both customer information F Rom a CRM application and the content of a fax or email from the customer to be obtained in a single request. And it should be able to make this form of information set into a single view, support in a separate request, such as customer information in the CRM application and from the customer's fax, e-mail and so on.

Deliver high performance and scalability. has high performance and high expansion type. Data should is able to is accessed and changed quickly to meet business, requirements the where the data regardless or what server or application module it touches. No matter where the data resides, no matter which server or application module you need to access, you must be able to quickly access the data to meet your business needs. Caching of data is a essential component of a information fabric to support large volumes of data and transactions. For information fabric, data buffering components must be used to support large volumes of data and transactions.

Support Integrated Data management. Support for unified data management. The fabric should is able to support manageability, availability, security, and Scalability (MASS) for meeting any type of Business requirements. Fabric should support manageability, availability, security, and Scalability (MASS) to meet the needs of different business types.

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