A single approach to data management that allows an application or user to retrieve and manipulate data without knowing any technical details about the data. That approach called Data Virtualization. Data Virtualization is different than traditional virtualization like - VMWare, Hypervisor, KVM, etc. because we already learned how to do virtualization of OS, Hardware and Storage, now time to add some more into virtualization, which is DATA. What is Data Virtualization? Data virtualization is a single window used to describe any approach to data management that allows an application to retrieve and manipulate data without requiring technical details about the data, such as how it is formatted, or where it is physically located. Why use Data Virtualization? Data virtualization promotes efficiency in data usage and processing and accelerates time to market on projects with complex data storage infrastructure. The purpose is to allow data to be accessed without creating extra ...