Hadoop 2 is now Generally Available, with YARN bringing ability to build data-processing applications that work natively in Hadoop. We spoke to Rohit Bakhshi, product manager at Hortonworks, about ...

Hadoop Summit 2013 kicks off tomorrow and expect YARN to be a major topic of conversation. Three years in the making, YARN is essentially a new operating system for Hadoop that will allow the open ...

YARN stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator and was introduced in the ASF JIRA MAPREDUCE-279. The YARN-based architecture of Hadoop 2 allows for alternate programming paradigms within Hadoop. The ...

YARN made its big introduction just as companies started to move their Hadoop deployments out of the science-project phase and into production workloads. When companies start to actually use new ...

The upcoming delivery of Apache Hadoop 3 later this year will bring big changes to how customers store and process data on clusters. Here at the annual Apache Big Data show in Miami, Florida, a pair ...

As lead on MapReduce and part of Hadoop from its inception, Arun Murthy offers his take on YARN's importance to the open-source project and enterprise data architecture.

Hadoop has been known as MapReduce running on HDFS, but with YARN, Hadoop 2.0 broadens pool of potential applications Hadoop has always been a catch-all for disparate open source initiatives that ...

YARN provides much more than just improved scalability, however; it treats traditional MapReduce as just one of the possible frameworks that can run on the cluster. YARN, therefore, will allow Hadoop ...

The Hadoop community recently promoted YARN -- the next-gen Hadoop data processing framework -- to the status of "sub-project" of the Apache Hadoop Top Level Project. The promotion puts YARN on the ...

Hacker group targets misconfigured Hadoop YARN components to plant DemonBot DDoS malware on resource-rich servers.