The fourth edition of the Smart Data Summit started today. Ravi Shankar, Chief Marketing Officer, Denodo, presenting on proven lesson in modernizing data architecture, commented, "The accessibility of vast amounts of multi-structured data, together with competitive pressure to obtain actionable insights from data in real-time, is driving enterprises to seek big data fabric platforms to fuel their big data initiatives. Data virtualization in support of big data fabric deployments allows for seamless integration across a multitude of data sources. We hope to demonstrate this here, at the Smart Data Summit 2017 Dubai, via our customer case studies."