The document discusses how virtualization can help simplify big data infrastructure and analytics. Key points include: 1) Virtualization can help simplify big data infrastructure by providing a unified analytics cloud platform that allows different data frameworks and workloads to easily share resources. 2) Hadoop performance on virtualization has been proven with studies showing little performance overhead from virtualization. 3) A unified analytics cloud platform using virtualization can provide benefits like better utilization, faster provisioning of elastic resources, and multi-tenancy for secure isolation of analytics workloads.