Expert Panel: Federated Data in Action: Virtualization and Fabrics for Modern Data Enterprise
Webinar Speaker: TBD
Date: Monday, September 28, 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
As distributed data proliferates and data silos multiply, gaining a single view of all relevant data becomes difficult, complicated, and slow—if even possible. To overcome data fragmentation, many organizations surveyed by TDWI research have deployed data virtualization layers and data federation capabilities to establish a single point of access, management, and governance across distributed data. The data fabric created using these technologies can shield users, including AI developers and data scientists, from having to navigate through multiple source data formats, definitions, and structural implementations.
This Expert Panel focuses on how data federation and virtualization can enable organizations to accelerate and simplify access across distributed data, including in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Panelists will discuss case studies of leveraging virtualization and federation technologies and additional cloud services to gain consistent, governed, and real-time access to distributed data. Topics include:
- How data virtualization and federation can reduce the amount of data movement and replication and decrease duplication
- Examples of how virtualization and federation support AI modeling processes and increase model accuracy and performance
- How data fabrics using virtualization and federation enable organizations to adhere to data sovereignty, data residency, and other data governance policies
Date: September 28, 2026
Time: 9:00 am PT