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 ...

Having worked on Hadoop since day one in 2006, Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy is clear about the significance of the latest version of the open-source big-data technology. "Hadoop 2 is a big step.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big data means big business. One of the most critical assets and organization has is the data that traverses the data center, the user, and the computing environment. All of this information needs to ...

For the last interview of our Hadoop Summit 2013 coverage, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante talked to John Kreisa, VP Strategic Marketing at Hortonworks, asking him what transpired from ...

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