(1) Cobalt Iron Inc. today announced that the company has been granted a U.S. patent entitled "Data Protection Automatic Optimization System and Method." Issued on Jan. 12, 2021, U.S. Patent #10891200 describes new capabilities for the Cobalt Iron Compass enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup platform that enable automatic and dynamic adjustment to data collection activities in response to a detected event or condition. The patent addresses a large, unmet requirement for data collection and effective monitoring in the enterprise backup world. Deeper data collection and monitoring can be necessary to help identify, remediate, and track issues. However, adequate data collection of these metrics is seldom performed. Even when some data is collected, it typically is static in nature.