Legacy Hadoop environments are draining budgets and blocking AI initiatives — but the conventional wisdom that modernization requires a multi-year, full-stack migration is wrong. Learn how a new approach layers a composable control plane over existing Hadoop environments — eliminating Kerberos, enabling one-click HDFS-to-Iceberg migration, and delivering governed, AI-ready data products on Kubernetes. See how a Top 5 US bank consolidated three legacy Hadoop platforms into one, cut $130M+ in combined licensing and hardware costs, and had 30 AI applications running in production within five weeks.