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If Hadoop has a problem, it can be expressed simply: Its power is inversely proportional to its ease-of-use. It's hard to set up, hard to work with, and hard to get real business value out of -- yet it's regularly pitched as the Next Big (Data) Thing for wringing ROI out of one's cloud.

Red Hat and Hadoop vendor Hortonworks have both been trying to assuage this problem. In Red Hat's case, it's building support for Hadoop into Red Hat Enterprise Linux as tightly as it's built in support for OpenStack. Now both companies have announced an alliance that aims to make Hadoop deployable across both private and public clouds.

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