With the new Apple iPad hitting the shelves last week, Mark Young explores the enterprise case for tablets. The plethora of benefits these devices offer a business is undeniable – but a balancing act between security and functionality has to take place.

Over 1,000 schools in Northern Ireland are going to be getting their own £170m cloud.

The Royal Aeronautical Society flies high as a learned body providing standards to the global aviation industry. It’s appropriate, then, that the organisation should turn to cloud for operational and cost efficiencies. Mark Young explores.

Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, announced plans this week to replace the UK's currently out-dated ICT curriculum with one focussed on computer science. Is this good news for secondary school IT students and does the current crop of teachers have the necessary skills to deliver the new curriculum? Dominic Pollard explores.

A half day, intimate and highly interactive event for a select group of 50 senior level business and IT decision makers and influencers to discuss the potential / current challenges, issues, pitfalls and solutions around Big Data.

Technology giant Microsoft is going to sue retail chain Comet over the sale of counterfeit recovery discs.

A survey and white paper released by the Actian Corportation have revealed what users want from BI tools and how this can be delivered via the cloud.

Japanese technology giants Hitachi are preparing to launch a cloud-based solution for dealing with Big Data and delivering Business Intelligence.

Former employee tells newspaper that mobile company's loss of email, browsing and IM service could be down to scalability issues.

Now Head of IT at public sector organisations Visit Britain and Visit England, Ian Takats has been an early adopter of new technologies throughout his career. But with the cloud there are issues that need ironing out before he commits. He talks Mark Young through his thought process.

Ventures announced at a start-ups masterclass event featuring Amazon CTO, an X Factor app developer, the creator of a data image search engine and the Mayor of London’s digital advisor. Get the low down on how the event unfolded.