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A large majority of Australian and New Zealand organisations were not adequately prepared for COVID-19 and fear the increased risk they are being exposed to through working from home and flexible work policies, according to newly published survey findings.

GUEST OPINION by Fleming Shi, Chief Technology Officer, Barracuda: With remote working now the norm for many organisations, security is topping the list of concerns for Australian CIOs.

GUEST OPINION by Simon Howe, Vice President Sales Asia Pacific, LogRhythm: As businesses come to terms with the reality of operating amid the legacy of COVID-19, many are realising their old approach to IT security is no longer up to the task.

BT promises a flexible, secure next-generation network to support Orica's migration of applications and services to the cloud.

Cloud visibility and analytics provider Gigamon today announced a partnership with Riverbed, the leader in performance and visibility of networks and applications, in support of the recent Gigamon Hawk launch.

Samsung Networks Business to deliver the latest in mmWave 5G innovation, initially offering 5G mmWave radio solutions in both the 26Ghz and 28Ghz spectrums.

GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, Gigamon:   For organisations that want to full benefit from their approach to the cloud, cloud-native computing may provide the answer. Unfortunately, although the benefits of the cloud-native approach are widely recognised, there is a lot of confusion about what cloud-native computing actually is.

Nokia and long-standing partner Elisa have completed a live commercial trial of a claimed world’s first 1 Terabit clear-channel interface deployment to efficiently scale Elisa’s network to support new applications and access technologies.

GUEST OPINION by Budd Ilic, ANZ Country Manager, Zscaler: When you think about corporate data networks, they’ve changed dramatically during the past decade. Initially walled gardens with little or no connection to the outside world, they gradually evolved into infrastructures intertwined with other networks and the public internet.

Seeking to continue its journey of T22 re-invention and remain Australia's top telco - and a global player - Telstra has launched "Adaptive Networks", a new suite of Enterprise network products that will "change the way business customers think about data connectivity".

Research and analyst powerhouse OMDIA, formerly Ovum, has again ranked Australia 13th of the 22 countries it has analysed for the deployment of 5G, although it a tiny catch meant we did slip one place during the quarter.

Network monitoring provider Gigamon has partnered with Nokia to deliver a network visibility and customer experience solution designed to accelerate 5G adoption.

Optus Business has announced a new intelligent generation platform - Liquid Infrastructure - that it says helps enterprises configure their networks in as little as five minutes, and scale network capacity “up and down in a few clicks”.

By Rami Rammaha, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Gigamon

GUEST OPINION:  The only certainty about today’s work environment is uncertainty and change. One primary inhibitor for organisations embracing any kind of transformation is network complexity. Complex networks are too expensive to operate and audit, and often have too many outages.

By Rami Rammaha, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Gigamon

GUEST OPINION:  The only certainty about today’s work environment is uncertainty and change. One primary inhibitor for organisations embracing any kind of transformation is network complexity. Complex networks are too expensive to operate and audit, and often have too many outages.

The coronavirus outbreak has delayed the rollout of 5G networks, but not by a great deal, the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association chief executive Chris Althaus says, adding that he expects the emergence of applications that take advantage of the technology by year-end.

GUEST OPINION: As CTO of a monitoring company that has become successful in the classic IT sector, I face many challenges. Some recurring questions: How can we at Paessler transfer over 20 years of experience in network monitoring to future technological developments, especially the Internet of Things? Which overall goals, milestones and methods should I introduce from a management perspective? And what specific opportunities do I see for Paessler?

Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has been accused of continuing to spread misinformation about the security architecture of 5G networks, with a Huawei Australia official claiming Turnbull was still relying on incorrect technical advice he had been given while he was prime minister.

A crackdown on scams perpetrated over phone networks is underway as the Australian Government works with the telecommunications industry regulator ACMA in an effort to combat the increasing scurge of scams.

Nokia is claiming the industry’s first launch of a fully integrated intent-based solution that it says completely changes how operators build fixed access networks to deliver ultra-broadband services.