Data integration platform helps improve simplicity, speed, control
and compliance in enterprise data environments
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat JBoss
Data Virtualization 6, a comprehensive platform for data integration and
unified access across disparate data sources that is designed to turn
big data into actionable information.
Data is spread throughout organizations in various big data and
traditional stores such as Apache Hadoop, relational databases and NoSQL
stores such as MongoDB. Integrating and transforming data from these
disparate stores can be a challenge to access or productively use. The
difficulty of making this data accessible to external applications, such
as analytics and business intelligence software, can be a barrier to
effectively leveraging these technologies to extract valuable and
actionable information from the data. JBoss Data Virtualization helps
solve this problem by allowing for simultaneous access to these
disparate stores.
Red Hat further helps customers overcome these challenges through collaboration
with industry leaders such as Hortonworks, the leading
contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache Hadoop. Combining the
Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) with JBoss Data Virtualization
integrates Hadoop with existing data sources and creates
business-friendly virtual data models for improved access by external
applications.
JBoss Data Virtualization provides fast, native out-of-the-box
connectivity to various data sources with diverse access methods and
storage models. Data from these sources is abstracted and presented in a
way that frees developers to focus on the creation and delivery of their
applications without having to know the technical and compatibility
nuances associated with each data source and type.
JBoss Data Virtualization supports a range of IT projects and
initiatives:
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Self-Service Business Intelligence: A virtual, reusable data
model provides business-friendly representation of data, allowing
users to interact with data without needing to know the complexities
of its structure or location and allowing multiple BI tools to acquire
data from a centralized data layer.
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Unified 360◦ View: Deliver a complete view of master and
transactional data in real-time. The virtual data layer serves as a
unified, enterprise-wide view of business information that improves
users' ability to understand and leverage enterprise data.
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Agile SOA Data Services: A data virtualization layer delivers
data services to service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications.
JBoss Data Virtualization accelerates the creation of data services
that encapsulate data access logic and allows multiple business
services to acquire data from a centralized data layer, resulting in a
looser coupling between business services and physical data sources.
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Better Compliance Control: A data virtualization layer delivers
data firewall functionality. Data virtualization improves data quality
with centralized access control, robust security and a reduction in
physical copies of data. The metadata repository catalogs enterprise
data locations and the relationships between data elements in
constituent data stores, simplifying auditing and analysis.
Data-driven enterprises can maximize the business value of their data by
establishing the organization, processes and infrastructure necessary to
manage data as a strategic asset, allowing relevant, trusted data to be
delivered quickly when, where and how needed to support the changing
needs of the business. JBoss Data Virtualization technology provides
lean and agile transformation of fragmented data into actionable
information to thrive in the data-driven economy.
Feature highlights in JBoss Data Virtualization 6 include:
JBoss Data Virtualization 6 is available
for download now.
Supporting Quotes
Craig Muzilla, senior vice president, Applications Platform Products
Group, Red Hat
"Information management and delivery are critical functions of modern
business operations. If organizations are going to have any success
translating meaningless data into actionable information, integration
tools like JBoss Data Virtualization play a key role in making the data
readily accessible."
Keizo Sugiyama, executive director, Green Cloud Division, KDDI R&D
Laboratories, Inc.
"As a telecommunications carrier, it is a critical requirement to use
big data effectively to improve our quality of service and produce new
services. We have ongoing efforts in our research and development
department to explore how we can further utilize big data. We're excited
about Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 and expect to enhance the way
we utilize and analyze big data in cooperation with Hadoop and NoSQL to
increase productivity, and we believe it will help accelerate our R&D
activities and business."
Brad Shimmin, research director, Business Technology and Software,
Current Analysis
"Organizations seeking immediate and transformational business
insight through big data should not underestimate the difficulties
involved in integrating the many data sources upon which a successful
analytics endeavor depends. Big data integration is the key to unlocking
the combined potential of data sources, such as spreadsheets, databases,
line-of-business applications, and Hadoop clusters. By employing a data
virtualization layer such as Red Hats JBoss Data Virtualization,
companies can better integrate and unify disparate data sources for
application consumption and analysis."
John Kreisa, vice president strategic marketing, Hortonworks
"We're pleased to see Red Hat bringing to market a compelling big data
integration solution that addresses a critical market need for better
and faster insight into data. Red Hat's JBoss Data Virtualization
technology makes combining existing enterprise data assets with data
that is in Hortonworks Data Platform both easy and fast."
Karl Van den Bergh, vice president, Products and Alliances,
Jaspersoft Corporation
"The volume, velocity and variety of data in the enterprises are on
the rise. The need to transform this data into actionable insight is a
top priority for today's CIO. Red Hat and Jaspersoft bring together a
comprehensive and easy-to-use solution that delivers ‘Data to Actionable
Insight', helping to turn an organization's untapped and underutilized
data into competitive advantage."
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