Last week my colleague John Furrier reported that YARN, also known as Next-Generation MapReduce, was upgraded to a full-fledged Apache Hadoop sub-project. While YARN is still considered alpha-quality, ...

Scheduling means different things depending on the audience. To many in the business world, scheduling is synonymous with workflow management. Workflow management is the coordinated execution of a ...

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There is a lot of pressure on open source to deliver a viable platform for the enterprise. As we learned at the recently concluded Hadoop Summit (#hadoopsummit), Hortonworks believes that Hadoop + ...

Hadoop is about to see a fundamental reset in its base functionality, says Arun Murthy, architect with Hortonworks and the Apache Software Foundation, who says that SQL in Hadoop via YARN is a part of ...

Hortonworks, a leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced the launch of the YARN Ready Program as the latest addition to the Hortonworks Partner Certification ...

Hadoop distribution vendor MapR announced the latest release of its distro that includes the latest version of the distributed computing system, Apache Hadoop 2.2, and YARN, a resource management ...

A threat actor is targeting a common misconfiguration in Hadoop YARN and Apache Flink to try and drop Monero cyrptominers in environments running the two big data technologies. What makes the campaign ...

New reports have emerged of expanding security threats targeting cloud-based Hadoop and YARN instances, including more sophisticated attacks described as “multi ...

For nearly a month, a new botnet has been slowly growing in the shadows, feasting on unsecured Apache Hadoop servers, and planting bots on vulnerable servers to be used for future DDoS attacks. First ...