<p>IBM has announced a new data virtualization service for its portfolio of cloud-based enterprise offerings. The new service IBM SmartCloud Data Virtualization (SCDV) will enable customers to decouple their application data from their physical infrastructure, improving business resiliency, agility, and the ability to move more seamlessly into the cloud.</p><p>As organizations move toward cloud-based systems, many struggle with the complexity and cost associated with application data bound to physical infrastructure. Independent silos of hardware and software built to support backup, business continuity, development and test, analytics, and compliance make it difficult to move data where it needs to be, to both safely protect and quickly develop the applications on which a business often depends.</p><p>By virtualizing data management, IBM SmartCloud Data Virtualization breaks down the walls of these silos. A single, physical copy stored wherever it makes the most sense for a given customer can be used to create multiple virtual copies, in support of any business application. Infrastructure is collapsed as data protection and availability SLAs are improved, resulting in compelling economic and strategic value created for the customer.</p><p>IBM SmartCloud Data Virtualization leverages Actifio's Virtual Data Pipeline technology to provide a unique model for managing critical data, without the expense of managing excess copies. Clients can reclaim production storage capacity, improve data center utilization, and quickly recover critical servers, resulting in a dramatically lower total cost of ownership than can be achieved through traditional means.</p><p><a href="http://continuitycentral.com/news07094.html">Keep reading...</a></p>