The massive computing and storage resources that are needed to support big data applications make cloud environments an ideal fit. Now more than ever, there is a growing number of choices of cloud infrastructure providers, from Amazon AWS, OpenStack offered by the likes of HP, Rackspace and soon even Dell, VMware vCloud as well a... INCLUDING - Effectively managing your Hadoop stack in any data center (on-premise, cloud, hybrid…) - Maintaining the flexibility to choose the right cloud for the job in an ever-changing environment - Consistently manage your hadoop deployment with other elements of your Big Data system such as NoSQL DB, Web Tier etc.