O’Reilly Tech Guide: Data Virtualization in the Cloud Era

For decades data virtualization has been little more than a dream. How nice it would be if we could ignore all the details regarding where data is located and how it is stored, and simply access all data within an organization from a single unified interface! Unfortunately, this dream was held back by fundamental limitations of hardware and complexity of the necessary software, so data virtualization remained a niche technology. However, in the last decade, advances in networking hardware and machine learning technology has started to transform data virtualization from dream to reality.

In this book, we discuss:

• What is data virtualization and why is it useful?
• What are the technical underpinnings that make virtualization more practical today than it ever has been in the past?
• Where does data virtualization fit into the modern data mesh and data fabric paradigms?

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