It’s not the hundreds of millions Intel invested into Cloudera earlier this year, but the $50 million HP invested in Hortonworks earlier this month is still significant. The investment signifies that HP actually might have a Hadoop strategy and, probably more importantly, that Hortonworks is the partner of choice as some the world’s largest IT vendors (including Microsoft, Red Hat, Teradata, SAP and, now HP) decide to get into the big data business. Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden came on the Structure Show this week to explain the his company’s approach to Hadoop and how it will work with HP.

Here are some of the highlights, but anyone interested in Bearden’s thoughts on handling competing partner interests, the emergence of Spark or the competitive Hadoop landscape will want to hear the whole thing.

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Really, Bearden explained, the deal is a way…