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Wait...You did what? With Who?

I am a little behind on this announcement for a variety of reasons,  but now as I fly home from yet another trip out to CA I have some  cycles to jot down my thoughts. I guess the timing is still pretty good, since Hadoop world is coming up next week. So, better later than never,  I would like to introduce the Hadoop Starter Kit 2.0 which now supports Pivotal, Cloudera, Hortonworks, and Apache.    Yes, we provided instructions for every major distribution..... not just Pivotal.   T hat's one of the unique things about EMC and our partner companies like VMware and Pivotal, they are free to parter as they wish, as is EMC.   Of course , we will work closely together to engineer tightly integrated solutions , but that is more a function of leg work than corporate mandate.  I recently moved into the Corporate CTO office from Pivotal(Greenplum), and enjoy working with the Pivotal folks every chance I get, so look for more uniquely integrated products in the future.  As Big Data t