Key Benefits of Information Fabric
Information Fabric的关键收益
Information fabric offers several key benefits, including:
Information fabric能带来诸多收益，包括：
Enabling real-time data sharing and quality. 支持高质量的实时数据共享。Information fabric enables much richer data sharing and better data quality. Information fabric支持更丰富、更高质量的数据共享。It allows any application to access any business data, regardless of where the data is physically or logically located and the data format, whether structured, semistructured, or unstructured. 无论数据的物理或逻辑存储方式以及不同的数据格式(结构化、半结构化、非结构化数据)，其支持任何应用访问任何商业数据。 Applications can simply make standard SQL, XQuery, or SOAP calls to the fabric to access or change business data. 应用仅需对fabric使用标准SQL、XQuery或SOAP调用来访问或修改业务数据。Information fabric focuses on eliminating excessive duplication of data across the organization, and offers consistent and reliable data for all enterprise applications. Information fabric专注于消除额外的跨组织数据复制，并为所有的企业应用提供一致、可靠的数据。
Optimizing resource utilization to improve data access performance. 优化资源利用，提高数据访问性能。 Previous generations of distributed data access middleware were hampered in their goal by the lack of today’s generation of virtualized server resources, which now enable the fabric to request storage, server, or network capacity when and where it is needed to optimize the flow of information to and from applications. 之前的分布式数据访问中间件由于缺乏当今的虚拟化服务器资源而未达到目标。在过往于应用的信息流需要优化的时候，这些虚拟化服务器资源现在可以让 fabric请求存储、服务器或网络容量。 Forrester estimates that enterprise server capacity is often no more than 40% utilized, leaving spare capacity the fabric can use to optimize performance. Forrester估计通常仅有不到40%的企业服务器容量被利用，剩余的可让fabric用来优化性能。It also reduces software licensing costs for databases, applications, and other middleware components. 它也同样降低了数据库、应用和其他中间件组件的软件许可证成本。
Providing an additional layer for automation. 为自动化提供了新的层级。 Information fabric is configured with metadata, representing business and technical policies for data management across the enterprise. Information fabric使用元数据配置，代表了整个企业数据管理的业务与技术规则。 This enables greater automation of data integration, access, and management, thereby reducing administration effort, which has been a major source of operational cost in running previous generations of distributed data access middleware. 它使更自动化的数据集成、访问与管理，从而降低了管理成本，即降低了之前的分布式数据访问中间件的运行成本。
Providing an enabling infrastructure for master data management (MDM). 提供了支持主数据管理(Master Data Management)的架构。 Although information fabric is not MDM, it can be used by MDM solutions to enable a consistent model of information to be more easily implemented. 虽然information fabric不是MDM，但其可应用在MDM方案中以支持更简单地实现信息一致性模型。 The fabric separates the concerns of distributed data access and management from the business concern of managing consistent master data; fabric能将对分布式数据访问管理的关心从对管理主数据一致性的业务考虑中分离出来。 it also provides a place where the canonical model defined by MDM can be embodied in virtual form, ready for access through industry-standard interfaces. 其也可为MDM中定义的正则模型以虚拟化的形式来具体表现提供场所，支持使用行业标准接口来访问。
Improving service-level agreements (SLAs) and quality of service (QoS). 促进服务层级协议(SLAs)并提升服务质量(QoS)。 Maintaining SLAs and QoS can be very challenging, especially as infrastructure is extended to support additional workloads and newer applications are deployed. 维持SLAs与QoS是非常具有挑战性的，尤其是在基础架构扩展支持其他工作负载与部署新应用时。 Information fabric focuses on improving performance and availability of data through managed redundancy and speeding up access to information through intelligent caching. 通过可控的冗余、使用智能缓冲加速访问信息，Information fabric专注于改善数据性能与可用性。