Forrester研究报告：Information Fabric——企业数据虚拟化(Part III、摘要翻译)

A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR DATA VIRTUALIZATION: INFORMATION FABRIC
数据虚拟化的新架构：INFORMATION FABRIC

As these pains have increased, the potential for new solutions has grown. 当问题不断严重时，有新的解决方案涌现之势。This potential arises from three fundamental trends in IT: 它们因IT的三大基本趋势应运而生：

The growth in server capacity
服务器容量的增长

The growth in network capacity and reach
网络容量的增长与范围的扩展

The trend to service-oriented architecture (SOA)
面向服务架构(SOA)的趋势

Forrester defines an information fabric as:
Forrester将information fabric定义为：

A business-friendly view of diverse information
各种信息的商业友好视图。

These are virtual views that represent information in forms that applications and users need, while hiding the true complexity of the data. 它们都是虚拟视图，从形式上表现了应用与用户需要的信息，并且真正隐藏了数据的复杂性。Data (structured and unstructured) and content is accessed through the fabric and enabled by middleware — such as ESBs and data grids — providing coordinated real-time access to distributed data. 可通过由中间件(如ESBs与数据网格)支撑的fabric来访问数据(结构化与非结构化)和内容，提供对分布式数据的实时级别访问。Data architecture and middleware technology are evolving toward information fabric in the context of the broader trend to Digital Business Architecture (DBA). 数据架构与中间件技术正逐步向information fabric演变，并成为更广泛的数字商务架构(Digital Business Architecture, DBA)趋势中的一部分。

Information fabric is different from other data virtualization technologies due to: Information fabric与其他虚拟化技术的区别在于：

Storage virtualization
存储虚拟化

Data grids
数据网格

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