About this feature: ECM virtualization “is emerging as a way to manage unstructured information scattered across different content repositories, databases, file systems, legacy applications, and Web sites,” says RFG’s Christie Hangey in this Research Brief. “With a virtualized approach to ECM,” she adds, “disparate repositories and content stores can be linked and centrally administered, managed, and searched, without copying or moving content to a central location.” Here, Hangey explains the benefits of virtualized ECM: