What is IBM® Data Virtualization?

IBM Data Virtualization is a universal query engine that executes distributed and virtualized queries across databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and streaming data without additional manual changes, data movement or replication. Available through the data fabric capabilities of the IBM Cloud Pak® for Data platform, IBM Data Virtualization is vendor agnostic and a key piece in modernizing your data architecture to accelerate digital transformation. 

Features

Simplify your data landscape

• **Distributed query engine: **Eliminates data migration and executes against data repositories regardless of data type or structure.
• **Object Storage compatibility: **Facilitates independent scaling of storage when used in place of traditional block storage.
• **Pre-integrated data cataloging: **Automates data governance and cataloging to help ensure data validity and quality.

Benefits

• **Achieve speed and simplicity: **Improve performance through intelligent caching.
• **Reduce workload: **Query data where it resides, including data lakes, minimizing movement and copies.
• **Capitalize on end-to-end data governance: **Leverage cataloging technology to ensure queries are run on high-quality, valid data.
• **Cut costs with independent scaling: **Gain independent scaling of compute and storage with zero downtime.
• **Available fully managed: **Achieve flexibility and deploy how you need it with virtualization capabilities as a service or on premises.