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

Key Benefits of Information Fabric
Key Benefits of Information fabric

Information fabric offers several key benefits, including:
Information fabric can bring a lot of benefits, including:

Enabling real-time data sharing and quality. Support for high quality real-time data sharing. Information fabric enables much richer data sharing and better data quality. Information fabric supports richer, higher-quality data sharing. It allows any application to access no business data, regardless of where the data is physically or logically located and The data format, whether structured, semistructured, or unstructured. Regardless of the physical or logical storage of the data and the different data formats (structured, semi-structured, unstructured), it supports any application to access any business data. Applications can simply make standard SQL, XQuery, or SOAP calls to "fabric to access" or change business data. Applications only need to use standard SQL, XQuery, or soap for fabric to access or modify business data. Information fabric focuses on eliminating excessive duplication of data across the organization, and offers consistent and Reliable data for all enterprise applications. Information fabric focuses on eliminating additional data replication across organizations and providing consistent and reliable data for all enterprise applications.

Optimizing resource utilization to improve data access performance. Optimize resource utilization and improve data access performance. Previous generations of distributed data access middleware were hampered in their goal by the lack of today ' s generation O F virtualized server resources, which now enable the fabric to request storage, server, or network capacity where It is needed to optimize the flow of information to and from applications. The previous distributed data access middleware did not meet the target because of the lack of today's virtualized server resources. These virtualized server resources now allow fabric to request storage, server, or network capacity in the past when the application's information flow needs to be optimized. Forrester estimates that enterprise server capacity be often no more than 40% utilized leaving the fabric can use to optimize performance. Forrester estimates that less than 40% of the enterprise server capacity is typically utilized, leaving the fabric to be used to optimize performance. It also reduces software licensing costs for databases, applications, and other middleware components. It also reduces the cost of software licenses for databases, applications, and other middleware components.

Providing an additional layer for automation. Provides a new level of automation. Information fabric is configured with metadata, representing business and technical to data policies management th E Enterprise. Information fabric uses a metadata configuration that represents the business and technical rules for data management across the enterprise. This enables greater automation of data integration, access, and management, thereby reducing administration effort, which has been a major source of operational cost in running previous generations of distributed data access middleware. It enables more automated data integration, access, and management, which lowers management costs, reducing the operational costs of previous distributed data access middleware.

Providing an enabling infrastructure for master Data Management (MDM). Provides a schema that supports Master Data management (master Management). Although information fabric is isn't MDM, it can be used through MDM solutions to enable a consistent model of information to be more easily implemented. Although information fabric is not MDM, it can be applied in an MDM scenario to support a simpler implementation of the information consistency model. The fabric separates the concerns of distributed data access and management from the business concern of managing NT master data; Fabric enables the care of distributed data access management to be separated from business considerations for managing master Data consistency. It also provides a place where the canonical model defined by MDM can is embodied in virtual form, ready for access Throug H Industry-standard interfaces. It can also provide a place for the canonical model defined in MDM in the form of virtualization, supporting the use of industry-standard interfaces for access.

Improving Service-level agreements (SLAs) and quality of service (QoS). Promote service level agreements (SLAs) and improve quality of service (QoS). Maintaining SLAs and QoS can be very challenging, especially as infrastructure are extended to support additional and newer applications are deployed. Maintaining SLAs and QoS is challenging, especially when infrastructure extensions support other workloads and deploy new applications. Information fabric focuses on improving performance and availability of data through managed redundancy and speeding up AC Cess to information through intelligent caching. Information fabric focuses on improving data performance and availability through controllable redundancy, and accelerated access to information using smart buffering.

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