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Accelerate your tech game

Designed for people interested in the issues and insights that are shaping the future of enterprise business, "Accelerate your tech game," brought to you by Optus and Cisco, is dedicated to delivering insightful, authentic, and easy-to-understand information. You'll find industry luminaries sharing actionable ideas and stimulating opinions on Mobility, Security, Networking, Collaboration, Cloud and more.

Featured Stories

Why the future of collaboration is mobile

Smart hospitals: patient-centred means digital-first

Fighting the complexity of the modern security threat with simplicity

Building tomorrow's network today

Author Bios

Jen Goeldner

Senior Practice Lead, Workplace of the Future - Optus Enterprise and Business
Enzo Cocotti

Senior Director, Fixed Networking Products - Optus Enterprise & Business
Kirsty Hunter

Senior Practice Lead, CX - Optus Enterprise and Business
Faheem Tabassum

Director, 5G and IoT Product - Optus Enterprise and Business
Jason Bamert

Associate Director - Education and Healthcare Industries, Optus Enterprise
Craig Searle

Security Expert - Optus Enterprise and Business
Regan Hodgson

Cisco Specialist - Optus Enterprise and Business
Tom Chan

Director, Network Solutions & Security, Enterprise & Business, Optus
David Fargher

Director, Solution Architects Workplace - Optus Enterprise and Business

Most Recent

Why the future of collaboration is mobile

Australian organisations have invested heavily to make mobile applications their front door to the world.

February 18, 2023 by Catherine Yue in Innovation / Paid Content

Smart hospitals: patient-centred means digital-first

The effectiveness of hospitals is undoubtedly built on the skills of clinicians and administrative staff. However, in today's digital era, there is so much more that technology can do to support them in delivering superior outcomes, while also improving their working lives, and the efficiency of the hospital.

February 18, 2023 by Jason Bamert in Innovation / Paid Content

Fighting the complexity of the modern security threat with simplicity

Today's business leaders face challenges on many fronts. Fast-changing market conditions demand organisations respond quickly to threats and opportunities through rapid adoption of digital technologies, while new competitors seem to emerge almost daily, lifting customers' expectations for exceptional digital service delivery.

February 15, 2023 by Tom Chan in Security / Paid Content

Building tomorrow's network today

We live in an era of technological change. Even before the pandemic, the pace of digitalisation had begun to accelerate, forcing leaders to respond by investing in new digital technologies and capabilities much faster than they had before.

February 9, 2023 by Enzo Cocotti in Innovation / Paid Content

Workplace technology for the next generation

Australian workplaces experienced massive disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic, but as many organisations are learning, when it comes to remote working, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle.

February 2, 2023 by Jen Goeldner in Innovation / Paid Content

Optus & Cisco - Disrupting the Australian marketplace together for 30 years to build new ways of working for their customers.

Optus & Cisco's unique partnership builds value for Australian businesses.

February 1, 2023 by RV Studios in Innovation / Paid Content

Building a better digital healthcare experience

People have high expectations for the products and services they consume, so why should those expectations be any lower when it comes to the critical service of healthcare?

August 24, 2022 by Jason Bamert in Health / Paid Content

How you can design your customer-centric services for success and growth

Customer-centric organisations understand the need to design services that deliver their customers' optimal experience and efficiency. But customers' expectations are constantly rising, and the right offer from a competitor might tempt even the most loyal customer.

July 29, 2022 by Kirsty Hunter in Business / Paid Content

When it comes to the future of work, people are not hybrids

Many Australian workers showed incredible resilience and adaptability during the COVID-19 lockdowns, with many embracing the potential for a quiet home working environment, a more flexible schedule, and the chance to forgo the weekday commute.

July 28, 2022 by Jen Goeldner in Business / Paid Content

Why there is more to virtualised care than telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented and unwanted challenge for the world's healthcare providers. But through all of the disruption and turmoil, it has left us with some important lessons that will help us in future crises, and also during the times in between.

March 16, 2022 by Jason Bamert in Innovation / Paid Content

You can't secure what you can't see

Wide area networks have become incredibly complicated, with workers today using a wide variety of internet-based applications and services from a growing list of locations.

February 17, 2022 by Regan Hodgson in 5G / Paid Content

Hybrid ways of work – there's a lot more to it than just giving everyone a laptop and some collaboration tools

As many Australian business leaders see the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, many are realising the effects of the pandemic will live on long past the reopening of the national economy

December 2, 2021 by Jen Goeldner in Home & Office / Paid Content

Modern wide area network architectures demand a new approach to security

It doesn't seem like that long ago when corporate networks were relatively simple, and important data rarely left the building where it was created and used.

October 20, 2021 by Regan Hodgson in Networking / Paid Content

In the modern organisation, everyone works for the customer

Business leaders talk constantly about putting the customer above all other considerations. It sounds like the right thing to say, but for many businesses only a small percentage of their workforce engages with customers on a regular basis, and even fewer use the knowledge gained to improve products and services.

October 15, 2021 by Kirsty Hunter in Cloud / Paid Content

Future proofing the branch network

As the COVID-19 crisis drags on, the path that many of us will take back to work is far from certain. But one thing we can be sure of is that the future of work will look very different to its past.

September 13, 2021 by Enzo Cocotti in Networking / Paid Content

Simplified Communications, not Unified Communications

Let's start with a nostalgic trip back to the 90s: remember when Unified Communications (UC) first appeared on the scene? It promised to combine real-time messaging and communications, and to bring some magic to the workplace.

August 14, 2021 by David Fargher in Networking / Paid Content

New attack patterns demand a new approach to cyber defence

Maintaining a strong cyber security posture has never been easy. But we've always been told that if we do the basics right, such as keeping a strong patching regime, we should be able to cover off the worst of the threats.

August 4, 2021 by Craig Searle in Security / Paid Content

Capitalising on the 5G opportunity means having the foundations now

A popular saying out there is that the real innovations that 5G will enable haven't even been dreamed up yet.

August 4, 2021 by Faheem Tabassum in 5G / Paid Content

The most exciting applications of 5G Edge Cloud haven’t been dreamed of yet

The 5G rollout across Australia continues to gain steam. Earlier this year, we announced a new 5G speed record, with a massive 10Gbps registered at a live site in Brisbane. Following the launch of the iPhone 12, demand for 5G services has started to escalate, and with that will come a steady broadening of the 5G coverage from major cities to regional Australia.

June 2, 2021 by Faheem Tabassum in 5G / Paid Content

Why fluid business conditions require liquid networks

Modern organisations need to respond to changing market conditions at a moment’s notice. New competitors, demanding customers, and global crises all require a level of agility that was unheard of in business even a decade ago. Having the capability to react quickly can mean the difference between capturing opportunities or facing increasing obsolescence.

May 13, 2021 by Enzo Cocotti in Networking / Paid Content

Featured Stories

Author Bios

Most Recent

Why the future of collaboration is mobile

Smart hospitals: patient-centred means digital-first

Fighting the complexity of the modern security threat with simplicity

Building tomorrow's network today

Workplace technology for the next generation

Optus & Cisco - Disrupting the Australian marketplace together for 30 years to build new ways of working for their customers.

Building a better digital healthcare experience

How you can design your customer-centric services for success and growth

When it comes to the future of work, people are not hybrids

Why there is more to virtualised care than telehealth

You can't secure what you can't see

Hybrid ways of work – there's a lot more to it than just giving everyone a laptop and some collaboration tools

Modern wide area network architectures demand a new approach to security

In the modern organisation, everyone works for the customer

Future proofing the branch network

Simplified Communications, not Unified Communications

New attack patterns demand a new approach to cyber defence

Capitalising on the 5G opportunity means having the foundations now

The most exciting applications of 5G Edge Cloud haven’t been dreamed of yet

Why fluid business conditions require liquid networks

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