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.
Collaboration and video technologies support innovation and improve patient outcomes at one of New Zealand’s fastest growing District Health Boards Bay of Plenty District Health Board provides health and disability services for the fastest growing District Health Board (DHB) in New Zealand. It delivers health services through two major hospitals and a network of community […]
At Cisco Live in Melbourne we had a great line-up of customers talking about how Cisco is supporting more effective collaboration within their businesses. One of our guest speakers was Ian Hendey from ME Bank, the only bank in Australia which is 100% owned by Australia’s leading industry super funds. ME Bank has a keen […]
One of the most engaging customer visits undertaken during Cisco Live in Melbourne was the visit to the brand new, purpose built offices of global engineering and management company, Aurecon Group. Aurecon’s Melbourne office is based in the growing Docklands area of Melbourne and is a showcase for the use of information technology to enable […]
Cisco TelePresence has received one of the most glowing endorsements possible, with the CIO of the Australian Government speaking to Sydney Morning Herald’s ITPro section about the success of the Australian Government’s roll out of its TelePresence system. Glenn Archer cites the national Cisco TelePresence system with 37 operational video conferencing sites across the country […]
At Cisco Live in Melbourne last week we hosted a customer showcase panel (see photos here) for attending press and analysts. Alongside St Andrew’s hospital, an Adelaide-based private hospital, and Relationships Australia WA, a not-for-profit which has rolled out Cisco collaboration kit, the IT Operations Manager from Country Fire Authority (CFA), Gary Phillips, discussed the […]
This year at Cisco Live in Melbourne, we were lucky enough to visit St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne to get an overview of the hospital’s IT strategy and to see some of the technology in action. Simon Richardson, the CIO for St Vincent’s Health Melbourne, and his team talked us through the hospital’s three main […]
Australian mobile data traffic will increase sixfold between 2012 and 2017, reaching 0.075 exabytes. Meanwhile, New Zealand mobile data traffic will increase eightfold in the same period. These were the key findings from our latest Global Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI), an ongoing initiative to predict global traffic growth, which were presented last week at […]
Adelaide-based St Andrew’s hospital is one of the most progressive medical facilities in the world consistently leading in new technology adoption. Most recently, St Andrews decided to move to a Cisco Medical-Grade Network (MGN) to continue the development of its digital future. The Cisco MGN is an end-to-end networking framework designed to support any application […]
STW Communications Group Limited is Australasia’s largest marketing content and communications services group. Within the STW group there are 75 individual operating companies which focus on advertising, design, digital, public and government relations, and specialist communications. Being such a large group of companies operating under the same banner, naturally STW Group’s IT department faced the […]