Break down data silos
Simplify and democratize the use of trusted data with IBM Data Virtualization.
Overview
Achieve data- and AI-driven outcomes with speed and ease
Whether you’re facing challenges in infrastructure, data or skills gaps, or just want to get data science projects up and running quickly, IBM Cloud Pak® for Data as a Service empowers users at all technical levels to easily tap into the power of trustworthy AI, no matter where data resides.
Access mission-critical data and AI services fully managed on IBM Cloud® with the added ability to bring AI workloads to your data. Save costs and try out market-leading data and AI services without heavy upfront investment.
Benefits
Simplify data and AI management
IBM Cloud® services include provisioning, 24x7 management and version upgrades.
Empower teams with AI
Intelligent automation can help augment their skills and accelerate AI development.
Break down data silos
Data virtualization allows users to access data at its source without data movement or duplication.
Cut long-term costs
IT teams can enjoy greater efficiencies and reduced costs over time for data and AI services.
Use cases
AI lifecycle automation

AI lifecycle automation
Prepare, build, run and manage your data science and AI models within a collaborative environment. An integrated set of capabilities spans AI model creation and lifecycle management. Streamline model production and deployment and overcome skill gaps using automation and AI.
Data privacy and security

Data privacy and security
Build a unified privacy framework to reduce data complexity and accelerate AI across all clouds. Eliminate data compliance blind spots with universal policy enforcement and a complete view of sensitive data.
Testimonial
“A platform where we can draw on all of the expertise in our company and build solutions that get ahead of problems, that give us insights into the future that we can act on. That’s how we’re going to free people to be their best...”
— Curren Katz, Highmark Health, Director of Data Science R&D
Features
Leading data and AI capabilities
Integrated experience
Unify leading data science tools, processes and talent within a single platform to help deliver greater efficiency and improved use of resources.
As-a-service flexibility
No worries with installing, managing or updating. Just select the services that fit your needs and deploy with a click — IBM will handle the rest.
Built-in governance
Understand, cleanse and prepare your data to build a trusted foundation for AI. Manage user access and enforce policies to help improve compliance.
End-to-end AI lifecycle
Dynamically create, train and manage AI and advanced models at scale. Monitor performance, trigger retraining and redeployment to constantly optimize.
Hybrid multicloud AI
Deploy security-rich connection points to catalog data assets across clouds. Extend managed data and AI workloads across distributed IT environments.
Data virtualization
Discover, query and control data access with a scalable technology. Query across multiple data repositories no matter where they are located.
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As-a-service flexibility

As-a-service flexibility
Provision your services with a single click
Built-in governance

Built-in governance
Prep, cleanse, and govern your data in the same tool
End-to-end AI lifecycle

End-to-end AI lifecycle
Collaboratively build your models, mitigate bias, and deploy without leaving the platform
Hybrid multicloud AI

Hybrid multicloud AI
Data freedom-ability to connect to over 60 data sources and manage your workloads across multiple cloud environments
Integrated services catalog
Fully managed on IBM Cloud
Integration
Databases
Cloud databases on IBM Cloud
Choose one for transactional workloads, web and mobile apps, and fast analytics.
Storage
IBM Cloud® Object Storage
Get flexible, cost-effective and scalable cloud storage for unstructured data.
Related offerings
Choose the solution that best suits your business needs.
Next steps
See the IBM Cloud Pak for Data capabilities firsthand