Alongside IoT RoboRunner, Amazon announced the AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator, an incubator program in collaboration with nonprofit MassRobotics to tackle challenges in automation, robotics, and industrial internet of things (IoT) technologies.
The adoption of robotics — and automation more broadly — in enterprises has accelerated as the pandemic prompts digital transformations. Amazon is a
heavy investor in robotics itself and hasn't been shy about its intent to capture a larger part of a robotics software market that is
anticipated to be worth over $7.52 billion by 2022.
IoT RoboRunner, currently in preview, builds on the technology already in use at Amazon warehouses for robotics management. It allows AWS customers to connect robots and existing automation software to orchestrate work across operations, combining data from each type of
robot in a fleet and standardizing data types like facility, location, and robotic task data in a central repository.
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[2] IT monitoring and management software firm NinjaOne today announced an expansion of its data protection and security capabilities to better enable ransomware recovery and prevention.
The Ninja Data Protection offering has added
image backup capabilities, a top request from customers, according to Lewis Huynh, chief security officer (CSO) at NinjaOne. Founded in 2013, the company had been known as NinjaRMM until its rebranding last month to reflect the company's expansion beyond remote monitoring and management (RMM).
This year's spate of high-profile ransomware attacks including Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, and Kaseya have raised awareness about this variety of cyberthreats. A recent survey from fraud prevention software firm SpyCloud found 72% of respondents saying their organization had been affected by ransomware in the previous 12 months.
Ransomware is notoriously difficult to prevent because the root cause is often people-related — frequently the result of social engineering and phishing attacks. Data backup and restore capabilities are thus considered critical for risk management, as a way to prevent major business disruption and recover quickly in the wake of a ransomware breach
NinjaOne furnishes managed services providers and corporate IT teams with a unified view of both RMM and the Ninja Data Protection backup and disaster recovery offering.
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[3] Starburst, the commercial entity behind the open source Presto-based SQL query engine Trino, has announced a new fully managed,
cross-cloud analytics product that allows companies to query data hosted on any of the "big three's" infrastructure — without moving the data from its original location.
While many of the
big cloud data analytics vendors support the burgeoning
multicloud movement by making their products available for each platform, problems remain in terms of making data stored in multiple environments easy to access. Companies still have to find a way to "pool" data from these different silos, be it through moving data to a single cloud or data warehouse, which is not only time-consuming but can also incur so-called "
egress" fees for transferring data. And this is what Starburst is now addressing, by extending its fully managed SaaS product to allow its customers to analyze data across the major clouds with a single SQL query.
Starburst Galaxy was originally available only for
AWS, but to support Starburst's push into cross-cloud analytics, the company is now extending support to
Microsoft's Azure and
Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It's worth noting that Starburst had previously
introduced a cross-cloud analytics product called Gateway for the self-managed incarnation. Now Starburst is bringing this same functionality to its fully-managed service, where it handles all the infrastructure and the customer doesn't have to worry about what's going on under the hood.
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