Hadoop was built on the notion that commodity hardware, when pooled together, can be extremely cheap and powerful. The problem is, to manage it, is a nightmare.

Hadoop was built on the notion that commodity hardware, when pooled together, can be extremely cheap and powerful. The problem is, to manage it, is a nightmare. Cloudera/HWX and others were unable to reduce the management burden and their inability to pivot to a cloud based architecture really sunk their ship.