Business executives know that their company needs to adopt a data-driven strategy. However, gaining value from data remains a massive challenge, despite the fact that businesses are drowning in data. As businesses begin to adopt a distributed hybrid computing strategy, they must figure out how to achieve a unified view of all of their data. Simply put, you cannot achieve a hybrid computing strategy if you can’t abstract data from its underlying location. To be successful, business leaders need to have the ability to gain an understanding of the holistic view of data across any location, any cloud, and any application. The business requirement to analyze and manage your data -- no matter where it resides -- has given rise to an emerging approach and architecture, called a data fabric.