Expert Panel: Breaking Data Silos with Cross-Cloud Federation and Semantic Layers
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
Enterprises manage increasingly complex data ecosystems that span multiple cloud platforms, integrate diverse data sources, and serve disparate business intelligence, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and other applications. To unify access to all of this data, organizations increasingly rely on cross-cloud federation, virtualization, and semantic layers.
Cross-cloud federation enables virtual access to data across public and private clouds, thereby avoiding silos and making it easier to access relevant information regardless of where it's stored. Semantic layers roll up disparate data within shared taxonomies and glossaries for easy comprehension.
TDWI research has found that enterprise data environments are growing more complex, distributed, and multimodal, a trend that is intensifying the need for integration fabrics that operate across cloud platforms, federate data that is stored and managed in diverse domains, and unify virtualized access to data within a shared semantic layer.
This expert panel will discuss best practices for implementing cross-cloud federation, virtualization, and semantic layers for data integration. The key topics are:
- Why cross-cloud models are becoming the norm
- The benefits of cross-cloud data federation
- Who needs cross-cloud data federation
- Implementing cross-cloud data federation
Guest Speaker
Dave Mariani
Founder & Chief Technology Officer
AtScale
Dave is the founder of AtScale and is the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to AtScale, he was VP of Engineering at Klout and at Yahoo! where he managed some of the world’s biggest data and analytics challenges. Mariani is a Big Data visionary and serial entrepreneur.
Fern Halper, Ph.D.