The Manageability Challenge Facing Hadoop

Even the most sophisticated customers are grappling with Hadoop’s operational complexity.

Customers building their outward facing Web and mobile applications on public clouds while trying to build Hadoop applications on-premises should evaluate vendors offering it as-a-service. Hadoop already comes with significant administrative complexity by virtue of its multi-product design. On top of that, operating elastic applications couldn’t be more different from the client-server systems IT has operated for decades.