Watch this Fast Data Strategy Virtual Summit with speakers Cijo Thomas Isaac, Big Data Architect, Asurion & Nick Sarkisian, Associate Vice President - North America Analytics Head, HCL here: https://buff.ly/2KwLvj3 While Asurion expanded its operations globally, their global client base expected highest quality customer service, something Asurion prides itself with. At the same time Asurions brand new digital home premium support required strong predictive analytics, IoT and big data architecture support to provide their customers with the best user experience. Attend this session to learn: • How Asurion built its hybrid cloud environment using data virtualization • Why centralizing security and data governance is key to their data architecture • Why data virtualization is important for their advanced analytics and data science

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2. A Journey to the Cloud with Data
Virtualization
Nick Sarkisian
Associate VP, North America Analytics Head
Cijo Thomas Isaac
Big Data Architect, Asurion

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Empowering Cloud Migration
through Data Virtualization
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For over 20 years, Asurion has helped people across the globe balance the
interdependency between life and technology. Today, as the industry-defining leader
of technology solutions, we ensure 300 million consumers’ devices and appliances
stay online and on the job in this fast moving, tech-driven world.
Asurion ensures technology and people are
harmonious. And your life is in balance.
We do so across the digitally connected
globe, by speaking six languages, and by
working across any device, platform or
provider.
We do this in 50 offices around the world, with
our global headquarters in Nashville, TN, our
Asia Pacific HQ in Singapore, and our European
HQ in London.

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Together we offer best in class:
Device Protection
Coverage for loss, theft,
damage, and out of
warranty malfunction, for
single or multiple
devices
Premier Tech Help
Soluto offers 100% access
to a tech expert, to solve
any technology issue
across OS systems and
platforms.
Electronics Protection
Coverage for computers,
laptops, tablets, gaming
consoles, entertainment
system, televisions and home
phones of any age, brand or
size
What We Do
We are the trusted partner to some of the biggest retailers, manufactures and service providers in the world

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Cloud Migration and Data Virtualization
• Cloud is synonymous with flexibility and agility
• Many organizations like Asurion are moving their data services to the cloud
• But the cloud journey is not easy
• Cloud migration can be disruptive to the established operational norms.
• Data security and governance are key challenges.
• Self-service analytics needs to be business user friendly.
• Data Virtualization is the answer
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Challenges in Cloud Migration
• Data Abstraction
• Disparate set of cloud apps and databases create more data silos.
• Different versions of same data hosted in different parts of the cloud.
• Data Security
• Manage authentication and authorization to the data stored in different
cloud apps and databases.
• Implement fine grained access control mechanism for data sets stored
across the cloud.
• Data Integration
• Cloud data integration is challenging due to the variety of the
technologies involved.
• It is costly and time consuming.
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Cloud Data Abstraction through Data Virtualization
• Provides a unified business layer
• Business users are masked from the complexities of the
underlying cloud apps and databases.
• Ensures data consistency
• Single source of truth for the consumers of cloud data.
• Enables data democratization
• A data object can be shared across multiple consumers of the
cloud platform in a very effective way.
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Cloud Data Security Enabled by Data Virtualization
• Single layer of authentication
• Data virtualization tools like Denodo provide the single layer of
authentication and authorization to the data stored in different cloud
apps and databases.
• Fine grained data access control
• Data virtualization tools provide fine grained access control
mechanism for data sets stored across the cloud.
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Cloud Data Integration Powered by Data Virtualization
• Enables virtual data integration
• Reduces the complexities of moving around the data in the cloud.
• Agnostic to the underlying cloud technologies.
• Faster Time-to-Market
• Provides business with a faster turn around on business critical data
questions.
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Denodo 7.0 to Empower Cloud Journey
• Data Retrieval Performance
• As big data use cases in the cloud are on the rise, Denodo’s
dynamic query optimization along with in-memory parallel
processing will play a critical role.
• Data Discovery
• As cloud based marketing, customer segmentation and customer
genomics become mainstream, a feature like dynamic data catalog
is not a nice to have but a necessity.
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HCL BUSINESS ANALYTICS SERVICES
Data Fabric and the Hybrid Architecture

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Problem Statement
Multiple physical data locations
Data generally resides in multiple locations as some
applications are on prem, while other are cloud
based or software as a service. There is no longer
a common repository
No single access point
Access to the data in these applications is
now managed through multiple platforms and
access points. The user experience can
vary from depending on where the
application resides
Security managed at multiple
layers
Security and data access is managed at each
individual application or database layer, this
creates a significant amount of complexity and
overhead
Limited ability to combine data for
analytics
It is becoming next to impossible to combine data
from multiple applications without massive data
replication

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Solution Overview
Master & Meta Data
Leverage virtual data layer to
create a holistic data catalog
Reporting & Dashboards
Provide a consistent user experience
across all applications
A single platform to provide
data combination and data
access to all applications across
the hybrid, multi-cloud
architecture
Quickly onboard data sets for
additional analytics use cases
Denodo provides virtual data access
and aggregation across physical
locations without replication
Data MarketplaceSecurity management

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Architecture using Denodo Data Virtualization

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Benefits
Leveraging Denodo as the primary access layer reduces the strain associated with implementing a hybrid
architecture by providing access and security regardless of the application location or database type

17. $7 BILLION ENTERPRISE | 110,000 IDEAPRENEURS | 31 COUNTRIES

18. M O D E R A T E D B Y
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Cijo Thomas Isaac
Big Data Architect, Asurion
Nick Sarkisian
Associate VP, North America Analytics Head
Saptarshi Sengupta
Principal Product Marketing Manager
A Journey to the Cloud with Data Virtualization

19. Q&A

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