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Linda Horiuchi

Senior Manager, Australia and New Zealand PR

Linda Horiuchi is Senior Manager of Public Relations for Australia and New Zealand on the Cisco Asia Pacific Corporate Communications team. In this role, she is responsible for leading Cisco's communications strategy in Australia and New Zealand and implementing strategic PR programs that include media and analyst relations, community relations and crisis communications. Linda is also focused on seeking out new opportunities to integrate Web 2.0 and new media into the overall PR program.

Previously, Linda was on Cisco's Global Technology Solutions PR team and based out of the company's headquarters office in San Jose, Calif. In her nine years at corporate, Linda provided thought leadership and strong strategic PR counsel and support to business leaders in the areas of data center/virtualization, switching, routing, network management, software and wireless/mobility across enterprises, service providers and small and medium businesses.

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March 6, 2013

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Leading Modern Law in Australia with Cisco Collaboration

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Johnson Winter & Slattery (JWS), a 60-partner corporate law firm in Australia, has announced it is rolling out Cisco video and collaboration solutions across its five offices. The law firm has partnered with Cisco to deploy an integrated collaboration suite including Cisco WebEx, Cisco Jabber, Cisco TelePresence and Cisco Show & Share. The comprehensive collaboration […]

March 5, 2013

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Cisco New Zealand Leader: Tomorrow Starts Here at Cisco Live Melbourne!

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Every year, this event gets bigger in terms of scope and impact, and we continue to get great feedback from our customers and partners about the relevance of the content and the quality of the learning opportunities.   We believe it is one of the most comprehensive forums available for learning about the technologies and future […]

March 5, 2013

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Cisco Recognises Its Outstanding Australian and New Zealand Partners

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Cisco acknowledges excellence in its partner community at the ANZ Partner Insight Awards Last night, Cisco awarded teams and individuals from 15 Cisco Australia and New Zealand Partners across 19 categories in the annual Cisco Partner Insight Awards. Partners were recognised for their innovation, leadership and best practice as a Cisco business partner across categories […]

March 4, 2013

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Cisco and Telstra join forces to take UC to the Cloud

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Cisco and its alliance partner Telstra have announced this morning that they will be joining forces to deliver Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) to Telstra customers. Integrated voice, video, TelePresence and mobility applications signify a significant leap forward for the communication and collaboration capabilities of its customers. Dubbed Cloud Collaboration, all services will be […]

March 4, 2013

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Cisco ANZ Leader Welcomes Customers and Partners to Cisco Live Melbourne 2013!

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2013 sees us host Cisco Live in Melbourne for the third time. This year promises to be even bigger and better than the last. Over 3,200 customers, partners, media, special guests and Cisco employees from 36 different countries around the world, are on their way to the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre for what is […]

February 11, 2013

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Amcom brings UCaaS to the Australian Enterprise with Cisco

As demand for hosted technology in the Australian enterprise increases, we are pleased to announce that we have teamed with ASX-listed Amcom to deliver our Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) to the Australian market (see press release here). Offering IT and Unified Communications-as-a-Service is a growing trend in the market as customers look to reduce capex […]

February 4, 2013

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Gen-I Introduces ReadyCloud Collaboration based on Cisco HCS to enable New Zealand Businesses to Harness the Benefits of …

Cisco Gold Certified Partner Gen-i today announced the launch of ReadyCloud Collaboration, a hosted collaboration-as-a-service solution based on Cisco’s globally recognised Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) platform. ReadyCloud Collaboration will bring together Cisco’s international strength and Gen-i’s proven local knowledge, coverage and infrastructure to deliver a flexible, highly secure and cost effective hosted collaboration service to […]

February 4, 2013

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Perspective from Cisco Australia and New Zealand’s CTO: What’s in store for the networking industry in 2013?

As we start the year, Cisco’s CTO for Australia & New Zealand, Kevin Bloch, shares his thoughts on the trends that are going to shape the networking industry in 2013. 1. “Mobile .. for business” – New directly connected customer channel Organisations will make significant investments to directly connect and interact with external and internal […]

January 29, 2013

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Cisco “Bowled Over” by Success of Marathon Cricket in Australia

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Cricket is an institution in Australia, with hundreds of thousands of people attending matches this season all over the country as the visiting South African, Sri Lankan and West Indian teams do battle with the Aussies. This is why Cisco Australia is so excited to have partnered with the Primary Club to sponsor “Marathon Cricket”. […]

December 9, 2012

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Congratulations to our Australia and New Zealand Channel Marketing Stars!

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As part of our ongoing support of the Australian and New Zealand partner community, last week we hosted the second annual Cisco Marketing Excellence partner awards. These awards are designed to recognise the great work that our partners are doing in creating and promoting innovative Cisco campaigns. The awards are given across both the partner […]

December 6, 2012

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Cisco APJC Recognises its Smart Services Champions

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Yesterday at the Cisco Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China Partner-Led Network Conference that took place in Bangkok, we took the opportunity to announce the recipients of the Cisco Smart Service awards. The purpose of these awards is to recognise our partners and customers from the region who showed forward-thinking approaches in the delivery and […]

December 4, 2012

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Cisco Celebrates Progress in the Australian Server Market

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As 2012 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on what we’ve experienced in data centre virtualisation over the past 12 months. Let’s start with our customers. We’re seeing Australian businesses of all sizes and industry verticals using Cisco UCS to gain solid advantages to their business and lowering IT costs.  And […]

December 3, 2012

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Cisco UCS Helps Scientists Reach for the Stars

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The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is an international collaborative project to construct a low frequency radio telescope as a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a global mega-science project to build the world’s largest radio telescope. The MWA after eight years of construction was finally launched last Friday in West Australia where Cisco announced […]

November 27, 2012

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Congratulations to Our Female Role Models in ICT!

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It is with great pleasure that I can announce that two of our Australian Cisco employees have been recognised at Australian Reseller News’ (ARN) inaugural Women in ICT awards. The awards were held at a luncheon in Sydney yesterday and aim to celebrate female excellence and reward outstanding achievements by women in the ICT industry. Cisco’s […]

November 18, 2012

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Cisco, Net App and VMware team up to transform ME Bank’s and the Sydney Opera House’s data centres

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Last week, as part of vForum Australia, Cisco in collaboration with partners NetApp and VMware were pleased to host a media roundtable with Sydney Opera House and ME Bank in attendance to share their journeys as they roll out a Cisco, NetApp and VMware data centre platform. The roll out of FlexPod is the latest […]

November 15, 2012

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Highlights from Australia’s National Telework Congress

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Earlier this week on the first day of Australia’s first National Telework Week, the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard opened the week with a live Cisco TelePresence cross between Parliament House in Canberra and an audience attending National Telework Congress at Melbourne University. Focusing on Australia’s place in an Asian Century and the digital economy […]

November 15, 2012

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Cisco Australia Employees Save 18 days per Year Teleworking: 87% say teleworking gives them a better quality of life

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In the lead up to National Telework Week, Cisco Australia conducted an employee survey to better understand the role of teleworking in the working lives of its employees. While teleworking is widely recognised as delivering a range of positive benefits to organisations, employees and wider society, at its most basic level the most significant return […]

November 11, 2012

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Welcome to the National Telework Week and Telework Congress 2012!

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Today the Australian and New Zealand Governments, along with founding partner, Cisco, officially open the inaugural Telework Week 2012. In Australia we are kicking the week off with The Telework Congress at Melbourne University, which will include presentations from an exciting lineup of speakers, including the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. (If you have not […]

November 11, 2012

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Cisco helps launch Dialogue Cafe in Melbourne, Australia

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Last week, The Hub Melbourne launched Australia’s first Dialogue Café. Dialogue Café is home to a high-definition video conferencing network specifically designed to facilitate dialogue between people from across the world to address social issues. The Hub Melbourne’s first Dialogue Café exchange will be with Cleveland, Ohio for a discussion on social enterprise business models. […]