DevOps and Open Technologies
The Value of Commercial Open Source
Adhering to the open source definition enables a large, passionate community to collaborate and share their work, insights and innovations on a given OSS project. Companies working in commercial open source add ...
DevOps Chat: Chef Habitat Project Continues to Mature
When Chef Habitat was released a little more than two years ago (good DevOps.com story on Habitat here and a good DevOps Chat on it here), many people in the DevOps community ...
CA Technologies Extends DevOps Push
At its CA World 2017 conference this week, CA Technologies moved to tighten the integration between the various elements of its DevOps portfolio acquired over the last year and unveiled CA Digital ...
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 4
IoT platforms and their solution development have crossed different maturity levels. At first, devices were primitive, isolated and working with limited functions before slowly evolving to communicate and connect with other devices ...
MongoDB Addresses Host of DevOps Issues
At its MongoDB Europe conference this week, MongoDB updated its open-source document database with the addition of MongoDB Ops Manager to simplify management of distributed instances of version 3.6 of its database ...
Nutanix Extends DevOps Ambitions
Nutanix at its .NEXT Europe conference has signalled its ambitions now extend into the realm of DevOps. The company announced it will make available an Acropolis Compute Cloud (AC2) and an Acropolis ...
Node.js Foundation Embraces HTTP/2
The latest version of Node.js will significantly increase the DevOps challenges surrounding the most widely used version of JavaScript in the enterprise. Node.js 8 adds the ability to support HTTP/2, a major ...
Platform9 Brings Workflows to Serverless Computing
Serverless computing frameworks are widely regarded as the next big thing in enterprise IT because they are based on an event-driven architecture that makes servers, storage and networking resources dynamically available as ...
8 Advantages of Using MySQL
MySQL is a free-to-use, open-source database that facilitates effective management of databases by connecting them to the software. It is a stable, reliable and powerful solution with advanced features including: Data Security ...
DevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
The word "legacy" evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver ...
Will Blockchain Move Past Hype to Reality?
Blockchain has hit peak "hype," according to Gartner’s recently published "Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies." The financial world has been very optimistic about blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)—the underlying technology behind ...
Migrating to GitHub
In recent months, Newt Global Consulting migrated multiple source code repositories to GitHub. The repositories are anywhere from 10MB to few Gigabytes of source code. This blog is to share our experiences ...

