Ash Parikh

Ash Parikh
Ash Parikh is responsible for driving Informatica’s product strategy around real-time data integration and SOA. Ash has over 17 years of industry experience in driving product innovation and strategy at technology leaders such as Raining Data, Iopsis Software, BEA, Sun and PeopleSoft.

Ash is a well-published industry expert in the field of SOA and distributed computing and is a regular presenter at leading industry technology events like XMLConference, OASIS Symposium, Delphi, AJAXWorld, and JavaOne. He has authored several technical articles in leading journals including DMReview, AlignJournal, XML Journal, JavaWorld, JavaPro, Web Services Journal, and ADT Magazine. He is the co-chair of the SDForum Web services SIG.

ANNOUNCING! The 2012 Data Virtualization Architect-to-Architect & Business Value Program

Today, agility and timely visibility are critical to the business. No wonder CIO.com, states that business intelligence (BI) will be the top technology priority for CIOs in 2012. However, is your data architecture agile enough to handle these exacting demands? In his blog Top 10 Business Intelligence Predictions For 2012, Boris Evelson of Forrester Research, [...]

What it Takes to Be a Leader in Data Virtualization!

If you haven’t already, I think you should read The Forrester Wave™: Data Virtualization, Q1 2012. For several reasons – one, to truly understand the space, and two, to understand the critical capabilities required to be a solution that solves real data integration problems. At the very outset, let’s clearly define Data Virtualization. Simply put, [...]

Does your Data Virtualization Solution Adapt To (Big) Data Problems

Late last year at a company all-hands meeting, the CEO of a large consumer electronics company had a serious mandate. He needed big results and fast. “Competition is really heating up and customer churn is on the rise. I need visibility on-demand – a common view of all enterprise data or else we cannot continue [...]

Next-Generation Data Virtualization Series Part 2 – Characteristics

So, where have I been since my last blog? Well, I have been working on our new Architect to Architect webinar series on data virtualization, which is very exciting for me as I get to rub shoulders (virtually speaking) with hundreds of industry architects. The interactive nature and record attendance at these webinars have made [...]

Data Virtualization Series Part 1 – What is it?

We have all heard of data federation and of late we have also been hearing how simple, traditional data federation often gets passed off as data virtualization. Let’s get back to basics and take a hard look at what the real need is. Data federation is not a new concept. When it first arrived on [...]