This year Cisco held Data Virtualization Day 2013 at the New York Palace in New York City. With 350 attendees from more than 130 organizations, it marked the largest event to date and showcased data virtualization is top of mind for organizations as they try to extract more value out of their data.

Data Virtualization -Different points of view

During the event, customers, analyst and Cisco executives gathered to share best practices, discuss trends driving data virtualization and provide insight into Cisco's go-forward strategy to expand and accelerate data virtualization offers.  Some highlights included:

• Customers such as Goldman Sachs, BMO and British Sky Broadcasting shared insider's views of their implementations, also explaining the significant profitability, agility, and risk management benefits their enterprises have achieved.

• Top data virtualization analysts at Forrester and R20 Consultancy discussed data virtualization adoption acceleration as well as the business and technology trends behind it.
• Looking ahead, Noel Yuahanna of Forrester described global information fabrics powered by data virtualization that integrate enterprise, partner, marketplace, social and line of business information fabrics to provide connected data anytime, anywhere. Rick van der Lans, R20 Consultancy, discussed how data virtualization along with powerful networks -which will allow data to stay where it is collected -will become the dominant data integration method.

•  Mike Flannagan, General Manager of Cisco's Integration Brokerage Technology Group,discussed why Cisco chose to enter the data virtualization business and noted that the big data, cloud computing and "Internet of Everything" eras were making data virtualization a must have for Cisco's customers.
• Jim Green, General Manager of Cisco's Data Virtualization Business Unit, presented his vision for data virtualization's next generation and that achieving massive scale was the next frontier for data virtualization technology. He also discussed Cisco's strategy to innovate using a unique mix of data virtualization, networking, and compute assets to meet this scale challenge.

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Highlights from these presentations will soon be posted to our Data Virtualization Day resources page and the Cisco data virtualization offering page.  So stay tuned.