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IBM Data Virtualization
Simplify your data landscape with a universal query engine that accesses your disparate data sources, available within IBM Cloud Pak for Data
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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. 

Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

IBM named a Leader for the 19th year in a row in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools

Announcement
IBM announced Cloud Pak for Data 5.0. Read the blog
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Key use cases
Data governance

Learn how businesses can simplify data governance and privacy to create a trusted, business-ready data foundation.

Data integration

Get a single view of data across hybrid data sources—without data movement, and in a secure, governed fashion.

How IBM Data Virtualization is used

Optimize data access Deliver quality data Govern data centrally Create a logical data warehouse
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.

Capabilities

Complete view Create catalog for governance and user management Connect your sources Intelligent caching
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.
Resources Improving data access

Learn how IBM Data Virtualization helps simplify your data access.

Four use cases defining the new wave of data management

See which topics are most pressing and how data virtualization helps simplify data access across use cases.

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See how IBM Data Virtualization works within the IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

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