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Overworked hospitals badly need to keep services running with COVID-19 cases surging and that’s making them a prime target for cybercriminals. They now face a very troubling increase in attempts at extortion through ransomware denial-of-service attacks. To combat them, some are turning to network-monitoring software to quickly investigate disruptions and restore service.
Among the most heavily targeted services are Voice over Internet Protocol technologies, or VoIP, for telemedicine, according to Ken Czekaj (pictured), problem solver at NetScout Systems Inc. Remotely caring for patients requires voice and video connections that run over unified communications protocols often monitored for performance with network and services-assurance tools.
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Amazon Web Services Inc. has just added a new service, called Amazon Location Service, to its cloud offerings to help customers with location-based needs.
“Amazon Location Service is a new geospatial service that makes it easy for customers on AWS to integrate location information into their applications,” said Andre Dufour (pictured), General Manager, Amazon Location Service, AWS. “One of the things that’s really cool about Amazon Location is we enable customers to access this high-quality data in a way that’s incredibly cost effective. It’s up to 10 times cheaper than some of the alternatives.”
Dufour spoke with Rebecca Knight, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. They discussed Amazon Location Services and uses cases the demonstrate how customers are leveraging this new service.
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Woman wanted on outstanding warrants at Penrith
Officers from Nepean Police Area Command are appealing for public assistance to locate a woman wanted on two outstanding warrants.
Rebecca Knight, aged 26, is wanted for two outstanding warrants issued by Penrith Local Court for stealing and fraud-related offences.
Rebecca is known to frequent the Willmott, Blacktown and Mount Druitt areas.
She is described as being of Caucasian appearance, between 165cm to 175cm tall, of a thin build, fair complexion, with brown eyes and brown hair.
Anyone who may know her whereabouts is urged not to approach but call Triple Zero (000) immediately.
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Amazon Honeycode was only launched in beta form six months ago, but its own team members have rapidly embraced the promise of a fully managed service that allows customers to build powerful mobile and web applications without the need for any programming.
“Among the Honeycode team itself, we use it for managing all of our internal processes,” said Meera Vaidyanathan (pictured), product leader for Amazon Honeycode at Amazon Web Services Inc. “Because we’re all so distributed these days, we seem to be spinning up an app on practically a daily basis. It’s given rise to a lot of new ideas and ways in which we’re able to work together collaboratively.”
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Before COVID-19 there were many reasons to become a digital company. The speed and agility of cloud-based operations mean better customer service, more efficient operations, and all that lovely data to analyze for market-advantage.
But the process was expensive and complex, so many companies were hovering on the fence. Now, under the strain of a global pandemic, that fence has fallen. And companies are instead hovering on the edge of a chasm.
“What I’ve seen with the pandemic is an acceleration of digital transformation … if you haven’t done it, you’re in trouble because it’s going to eat your company alive,” said Stephen Zipperman (pictured, left), vice president of consulting services at Datalink, a division of Insight Enterprises Inc.