It’s hard to overstate the many advantages that technology has brought in the last 50 years. At the same time, only a fool would argue that there haven’t been significant negative effects as well. Alex Meehan reports

Different kinds of data storage do different things, so getting the best out of them means combining the right cocktail of technologies

When it comes to talking about how IT teams organise their tools, it quickly becomes apparent that language can be as much of a hindrance as a help

Before the pandemic, virtualisation and remote access were luxuries for many companies but now all that has changed. Alex Meehan reports

Putting in hyper converged infrastructure saves money, time and resources and delivers value back to the business

Contactless payments have become normal and a growing number of companies are using bank-to-bank direct transfers. The question now is whether a cashless economy is on the way, writes Alex Meehan

Print is struggling to deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s very far from dead. By Alex Meehan

Massive technological changes are going on behind the scenes in construction

Employers increasingly see career breaks as a positive experience, and many offer programmes to ease employees back into the world of work

All the latest smartphones and tablets can do it, manufacturers increasingly tout it as a top feature, and the military is investing in it. But what is augmented reality actually good for?

The coronavirus could result in a lot of us working from home in the coming days. It’s an arrangement that seems cushy at face value, but it can turn out to be anything but

There’s more to the evolving and growing sector than massive power consumption and small workforces

You can never have enough, says Dell’s CTO Marc O’Regan, and that includes the ‘edge’ data that lives on mobile phones and even on pumps in factories and sensors in water treatment plants

Fifth generation mobile communication is about more than just increased speed: it will facilitate smart cities and autonomous vehicles and its implications for business are enormous

With everything from wireless headphones to laptops to electric cars making extensive use of lithium ion batteries, Alex Meehan examines their pros and cons and the work Irish scientists are doing to improve them

The amount of data being generated is at an all-time high, and it all needs to be stored. Or does it?

Alex Meehan looks how the way businesses store and back up data is changing

The data explosion presents huge challenges to businesses, but also offers opportunities to build better relationships with customers

Advances in tech mean we could be waving goodbye to our desk phones very soon

As more and more companies struggle to deal with the increasingly digital nature of business, project management is coming into its own. Alex Meehan reports