The Enterprise Data Fabric: an information architecture for our times - Data Matters

The post-big data landscape has been shaped by two emergent, intrinsically related forces: the predominance of cognitive computing and the unveiling of the data fabric architecture. The latter is an overlay atop the assortment of existing distributed computing technologies, tools and approaches that enable them to interact for singular use cases across the enterprise. Gartner describes the data fabric architecture as the means of supporting "frictionless access and sharing of data in a distributed network environment." These decentralized data assets (and respective management systems) are joined by the data fabric architecture. Although this architecture involves any number of competing vendors, graph technology and semantic standards play a pivotal role in its implementation.