Virtual data for real business insight

Data virtualisation can bridge the gap between the desire to get to grips with data and the reality of actually doing it

Edward Charvet, director information insights, Logicalis

Big data is everywhere and nowhere: despite the breathless reporting, most businesses are a long way away from making use of the data they already have – and without unified data sources, it will be expensive for them to even dip a toe in the water.

Edward Charvet, director of information insights at Logicalis, said that this need not be the case. Data virtualisation, he said, can be an important first step toward ...