Executive Platform

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…

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,…

Based in Santa Clara, Calif, Cloupia is a software company that automates converged data center infrastructure – allowing enterprises and service providers to speed the deployment and configuration of physical and virtual infrastructure from a single management console. Together, Cisco and Cloupia w…

By 2016, more than 10 billion connected devices will populate our planet. According to data from the Cisco Visual Networking Index, mobile connection speeds and data use are anticipated to rise with this influx of smartphones, tablets and laptop computers. Many mobile device users are constantly con…

Once upon a time – one not so long ago – mobile devices were primarily used by upper-level executives.   That model is now turned on its head, as mobile devices seem as common among employees as shoes and socks.   Smartphones, tablets, and new hybrid devices provide access to critical information an…

Last week, the annual 4G World show was hosted in everyone’s favorite windy city—Chicago!  This year, I was lucky enough to be a keynote speaker for the event.  It’s always an honor to speak at an event on behalf of Cisco and the countless folks that have made our SP Mobility a success.  As the show…

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, i…

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 wi…

Just concluding today is the WiFi Global Summit in San Francisco, hosted by the Wireless Broadband Alliance. Billed as the world’s largest carrier-grade WiFi event, the Summit was very successful.  More than 400 people attended; all the sessions were well attended, with many of them packed; and feed…