The document provides an overview of EMC's big data solutions. It discusses the challenges of big data for IT in terms of complexity from multiple Hadoop distributions, costs of acquisition and operations, and security and governance challenges. It then introduces EMC's Hadoop starter kit which provides a simple and cost-effective way for customers to get started with Hadoop deployments on their existing EMC infrastructure. The starter kit includes deployment guides for various Hadoop distributions including Cloudera, Hortonworks, PivotalHD and Apache. It has seen over 1500 deployments worldwide.