The challenges of data management are getting exponentially harder. With the ever-increasing quantities, sources, and structures of data as well as the insurgence of new tools and techniques for storing, analyzing, and deriving deeper insights from this information data driven companies continue to evaluate and explore data management technologies that better integrate, consolidate, and unify data in a way that offers tangible business value.
The first portion of the research independently solicited the participation of many companies within the Radiant Advisory Network to properly harness a wide perspective across many industries and organizations to identify common concerns and questions regarding barriers to data virtualization from a broad, pre-adopter community. The companies included were very interested in adopting data virtualization and either currently not using data virtualization or evaluating the technology for potential adoption.