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Oct 9, 2025 · 21 min
How can we protect our institutional memory?
How do we protect our institutional memory? This week, Technology Now explores the importance of organisational memory and the biggest challenges which can lead to its erosion. We dive into how it could be preserved, and why this is vital for our organisations. Rom Kosla, CIO for HPE, tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Rom Kosla https://www.linkedin.com/in/kosla Sources https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/tenure.pdf https://www.panopto.com/resource/valuing-workplace-knowledge/ https://www.britannica.com/science/Dewey-Decimal-Classification https://www.britannica.com/biography/Melvil-Dewey
Oct 2, 2025 · 19 min
How do you design a modern-day sports venue?
What sort of technology goes into building the latest arenas? This week, Technology Now explores the Chase Centre, home of the Golden State Warriors and a venue for all sorts of events from sports to live music. We examine the importance of technology in all aspects of design, from before fans leave their houses, to their connectivity, safety, and enjoyment at the venue. Brian Fulmer, Senior Director of IT at the Golden State Warriors, tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. HPE and Golden State Warriors Partnership: https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00115219enw https://www.hpe.com/h22228/video-gallery/us/en/v100003857/video?jumpId=in_videogallery_366db19b-247e-46f0-9acc-490ac791aefe_gaiw About Brian Fullmer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianfulmer/ Sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/63755510 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-roman-gladiator-arena-concession-stand-shops-found/ https://www.britannica.com/sports/polo https://www.football-stadiums.co.uk/articles/history-of-floodlights-in-football/ https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom
Sep 25, 2025 · 23 min
Can AI make itself more efficient?
How can artificial intelligence make itself more efficient? This week, Technology Now delves into the concept of solution based efficiency, how it can be applied to new and emerging technologies, and the importance of expecting the unexpected. John Frey, Senior Director and Chief Technologist of Sustainable Transformation for HPE, tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. HPE AI Sustainability Whitepaper: https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50013815enw Sources: https://homepages.math.uic.edu/~leon/mcs425-s08/handouts/char_freq2.pdf https://www.morsecodeholistic.com/american-morse-code-translator https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47460499
Sep 18, 2025 · 24 min
How could AI revolutionize supply chain?
Where do we get our stuff from? This week, Technology Now is diving into the subject of supply chain. We explore what different people along the value chain care about, the types of disruptions modern day supply chains face, and we explore how AI can be integrated into the world of supply chain to mitigate unexpected shocks. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Mark Bakker: https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/leadership-bios/mark-bakker.html Sources Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation by Edward Humes. Copyright © 2016 by Edward Humes. Reprinted courtesy of Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. https://www.persee.fr/doc/paleo_0153-9345_2016_num_42_2_5718 https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/renfrew-dixon-and-cann-reconstruct-ancient-near-eastern-trade-routes Khalidi, L. et al., 2016, The growth of early social networks: New geochemical results of obsidian from the Ubaid to Chalcolithic Period in Syria, Iraq and the Gulf, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 9, Pages 743-757, ISSN 2352-409X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.06.026. Gendron, F., et all., 2019, The evolution of obsidian procurement in ancient Oaxaca, Mexico: New data from the Sistema 7 Venado architectural complex, Monte Albán. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 23. 583-591., Tykot. R. H., 1996, Obsidian Procurement and Distribution in the Central and Western Mediterranean, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 9.1 (1996) 39-82
Sep 11, 2025 · 19 min
Can AI be used to improve patient experiences?
Can AI be used to improve patient experiences? This week, Technology Now explores how AI is being used to streamline data collection in the healthcare industry, how data should be treated to avoid bias in AI, and the benefits this brings to patients. Derek B. Howard, Programme Manager for the HPE Digital Health Foundry Programme, tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Derek B. Howard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-howard1/ Sources: https://www.britannica.com/technology/MYCIN https://www.mghlcs.org/projects/dxplain https://www.cedars-sinai.org/discoveries/ai-ascendance-in-medicine.html
Sep 4, 2025 · 18 min
How do you keep a computer running non-stop?
How do you keep a computer running non-stop? This week Technology Now explores the world of fault tolerant computing. We dive into how fault tolerance works, what industries use it, and why such a useful form of computing isn’t as ubiquitous as we might expect. Casey Taylor, Vice President and General Manager HPE Nonstop Compute tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Casey Taylor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/getcaseytaylor Our previous episode with Casey: https://hpe.lnk.to/missioncriticalfa Sources: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/24/tech/crowdstrike-outage-cost-cause https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/24/tech/crowdstrike-outage-cost-cause https://www.kovrr.com/reports/the-uk-cost-of-the-crowdstrike-incident https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/mission-overview/ https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-are-voyager-1-and-voyager-2-now/ A. Avizienis, G. C. Gilley, F. P. Mathur, D. A. Rennels, J. A. Rohr and D. K. Rubin, "The STAR (Self-Testing And Repairing) Computer: An Investigation of the Theory and Practice of Fault-Tolerant Computer Design," in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. C-20, no. 11, pp. 1312-1321, Nov. 1971, doi: 10.1109/T-C.1971.223133. https://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/teach/comp790/papers/Siewiorek_Fault_Tol.pdf
Aug 28, 2025 · 22 min
Can we build technology today to defend against the threats of tomorrow?
Can we build technology today to defend against the threats of tomorrow? This week, Technology Now concludes a double episode on post quantum cryptography and explores the subject of firmware, why it’s imperative that it be protected against quantum attacks and why a simple update can’t solve every problem. Nigel Edwards, Director of the Security Lab at HPE Labs, tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Nigel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-edwards-170591/?originalSubdomain=uk Sources: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-long-and-winding-history-of-encryption/423726/ https://www.theqrl.org/blog/history-of-cryptography-behind-the-code-episode-1/ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/07/todays-ai-can-crack-second-world-war-enigma-code-in-short-order-experts-say
Aug 21, 2025 · 20 min
How are governments reacting to the threat of quantum computers?
Why do quantum computers pose a threat to governments? This week Technology Now starts a two part dive into quantum computing. In this first episode, we ask: how are governments preparing to mitigate the threat posed by a hypothetical quantum computer which could be invented. Ken Rich, Federal CTO at HPE tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Ken Rich: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenrich111/ Sources: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/whitepaper/next-steps-preparing-for-post-quantum-cryptography https://www.britannica.com/technology/quantum-computer https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/history-of-quantum-computing-key-moments-that-shaped-the-future-of-computing Shor, Peter W.. “Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer.” SIAM Rev. 41 (1995): 303-332. P. W. Shor, "Algorithms for quantum computation: discrete logarithms and factoring," Proceedings 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 1994, pp. 124-134, doi: 10.1109/SFCS.1994.365700. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2399246-record-breaking-quantum-computer-has-more-than-1000-qubits/
Aug 14, 2025 · 19 min
Why do sports teams care about technology?
How do sports and technology go hand in hand? This week, Technology Now explores how sports teams use technology both on and off the field. We examine the history of sport analytics, and how technology is utilized to help training, find opponents’ weaknesses, and even discover new talent going forwards. Matt Messick, CIO for the Dallas Cowboys who are part of Blue Star Operations Services, tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. HPE & Dallas Cowboys partnership: https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50008315enw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD9WhsESuwE Sources: https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2025/super-bowl-lix-makes-tv-history-with-over-127-million-viewers/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilsahota/2024/02/05/touchdown-technology-the-rise-of-ai-in-american-football/ Charles M. Mottley, (1954) Letter to the Editor—The Application of Operations-Research Methods to Athletic Games. Journal of the Operations Research Society of America 2(3):335-338. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2.3.335 Lindsey, G. R. “Statistical Data Useful for the Operation of a Baseball Team.” Operations Research, vol. 7, no. 2, 1959, pp. 197–207. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/167156. Accessed 31 July 2025. https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/sports-analytics-moneyball https://london-post.co.uk/the-analytics-revolution-in-the-nfl/
Aug 7, 2025 · 23 min
How can AI be used to commit fraud?
How can AI be used to commit fraud? This week, Technology Now dives into the world of AI attacks. We explore how AI is being used to commit fraud against both people and companies and ask what protections can be put in place to mitigate this in the future. Aman Raheja, Global Chief Information Security Officer at HPE tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Aman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahejaaman/ Sources: https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/bernie-madoff https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bernard-madoff.asp https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/phishing-email-scam-stole-100-million-from-facebook-and-google.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39744007 https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-to-phishing-scheme-that-fleeced-facebook-google-of-100-million https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/
Jul 31, 2025 · 22 min
The Future of Innovation
What does the future hold for the world of Technology? This week, Technology Now is looking to the future and where we could be going next exploring topics including physical AI and quantum computing. At the HP Garage in Palo Alto, California, our on the ground reporter Sam Jarrell is once again joined by HPE Labs Chief Architect, Kirk Bresniker, this time, to discuss the future of innovation This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Kirk Bresniker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkbresniker Sources: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-history-of-innovation-cycles/ https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6251/1/Musso%20case%20study.pdf https://o7hym76hqe4vgicsgie2b2d5gqx3spauod5hrbhrkrndb4gwj7tq.arweave.net/d8-Gf8eBOVMgUjIJoOh9NC-5PBRw-niE8VRaMPDWT-c#:~:text=Growth%20of%20the%20Internet%20The%20number%20of,accelerated%20and%20reached%203.4%20billion%20in%202016. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/
Jul 24, 2025 · 23 min
The History of Innovation
How did we get here? This week Technology Now is looking back at the history of innovation and the birth of Silicon Valley from a tiny garage in Palo Alto, California. Our reporter on the ground, Sam Jarrell is joined by HPE Labs Chief Architect, Kirk Bresniker, to explore the history of the HPE and how the modern era of electronics began. This episode is available in both video and audio formats. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Kirk Bresniker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkbresniker Sources: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/07/this-is-a-visualization-of-the-history-of-innovation-cycles/ https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Revolution https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/history-of-hp
Jul 17, 2025 · 19 min
Why are we still talking about virtualization?
Why are we still talking about virtualization? This week, Technology Now is returning to a classic topic in computing: Virtualization. So, what’s changed in the landscape that’s bought virtualization back into the limelight, and how is it being used in our current technological landscape? Brad Parks, Chief Product & Go To Market Officer at HPE’s recently acquired Morpheus Data, tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Brad Parks: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-parks-b190464/ Sources: https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/feature/The-history-of-virtualization-and-its-mark-on-data-center-management https://inventivehq.com/history-of-virtualization/
Jul 10, 2025 · 21 min
How do you solve a network outage?
Why do networks go down? More importantly, how are they restored when they do? This week, Technology Now is diving in the worlds of networking, and how network outages are solved. What caused the problem? Who should run the response? How can organisations learn from outages to prevent them happening in the future? Sarah Tovar, a Principle Network Engineer on the Advanced Customer Engineering team tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Sarah Tovar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-tovar-1083a5104/ Sources: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ARPANET https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/early-sketch-of-arpanets-first-four-nodes/ https://home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born
Jul 3, 2025 · 22 min
What does the future hold for the technology industry?
Where do industry experts see the world of technology heading? This week, Technology Now is looking back to a conversation from HPE Discover Las Vegas with HPE’s Chief Technology Officer, Fidelma Russo, about any updates since last year’s Diary of a CTO episode, and where she sees the industry heading in the future. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Fidelma Russo: https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/leadership-bios/fidelma-russo.html Today I Learned: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/microbes-transform-plastic-waste-into-paracetamol Johnson, N.W., Valenzuela-Ortega, M., Thorpe, T.W. et al. A biocompatible Lossen rearrangement in Escherichia coli. Nat. Chem. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01845-5 https://www.statista.com/statistics/242764/global-polyethylene-terephthalate-production-capacity/ This Week in History: https://www.edn.com/bell-labs-announces-junction-transistor-july-5-1951/ https://uk.rs-online.com/web/content/discovery/ideas-and-advice/bipolar-transistor-guide https://newatlas.com/computers/ibm-2-nm-chips-transistors/ https://www.nano.gov/nanotech-101/what/nano-size
Jun 26, 2025 · 22 min
What's happening at HPE Discover Las Vegas?
What is happening at HPE Discover? This week Technology Now is dialing into to HPE Discover Las Vegas, HPE’s annual customer and partner event. Our reporter on the ground, Sam Jarrell, is joined by HPE’s President and CEO, Antonio Neri, to explore the show floor and learn more about this year’s event. This episode is available in both video and audio formats. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About Antonio Neri: https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/leadership-bios/antonio-neri.html This Week in History: https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/26404794246.pdf https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/nuclear-power-in-the-world-today
Jun 19, 2025 · 18 min
What do you do with the world's fastest, verified supercomputer?
What do you do with the world’s fastest, verified supercomputer? This week, Technology Now looks further into the world of supercomputers and explores what the world’s fastest, verified supercomputer, El Capitan, and its sister machine, Tuolumne, are used for. Rob Rieben, a computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what can be learnt from it. About Rob: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rieben1/ Sources What are supercomputers used for: https://www.anl.gov/science-101/supercomputing Today I learned: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2025/05/nhs-first-in-world-to-roll-out-revolutionary-blood-test-for-cancer-patients/ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/29/revolutionary-dna-blood-test-to-offer-thousands-in-england-tailored-cancer-care This week in history: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/50_years_of_ESA/50_years_of_humans_in_space/First_woman_in_space_Valentina
Jun 12, 2025 · 21 min
How do you build the world's fastest, verified supercomputer?
How do you make the world’s fastest, verified supercomputer? This week, Technology Now dives into the world of supercomputers, and how El Capitan, the world’s largest supercomputer, was built. We will explore the software and hardware requirements as well as investigating the physical requirements needed to even be able to run a supercomputer on your premises. Bronis de Supinski, CTO of Livermore Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what can be learnt from it. About Bronis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bronis-de-supinski-607a441/ Sources El Capitan https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2024/11/hewlett-packard-enterprise-delivers-worlds-fastest-direct-liquid-cooled-exascale-supercomputer-el-capitan-for-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory.html What are FLOPS https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/FLOPS-floating-point-operations-per-second Today I Learned Ma. Y., et all, 2025, Near-infrared spatiotemporal colour vision in humans enabled by upconversion contact lenses, ISSN 0092-8674, 10.1016/j.cell.2025.04.019 https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00454-4 This Week in History https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20201028-history-of-the-ballpoint-pen https://spinoff.nasa.gov/space-pens
Jun 5, 2025 · 24 min
How do you create quantum resistant encryption?
How do we prepare our cybersecurity for a post quantum world? This week, Technology Now explores how security experts are looking to future-proofing their work. We will examine the hurdles to post-quantum security, the underlying ways in which our data is protected, and we will be delving into the underground world of “harvest now, decrypt later”. Dr Sarah McCarthy tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what can be learnt from it. About Dr Sarah McCarthy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahmccarthyphd/?originalSubdomain=ca Sources Quantum computing chip: https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c791ng0zvl3o NIST Post Quantum Standards: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/08/nist-releases-first-3-finalized-post-quantum-encryption-standards Martian aurora: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/nasa-observes-first-visible-light-auroras-at-mars/ Rutherford’s Lecture: https://web.lemoyne.edu/giunta/ruth1920.html James Chadwick: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1935/chadwick/biographical/
May 29, 2025 · 22 min
What is an AI factory?
Where do you create an AI? This week, Technology Now explores the world of AI factories, dedicated spaces for building bespoke artificial intelligence software. We look into what these factories are, how they work, and we examine the importance of them going forward. Iveta Lohovska tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what can be learnt from it. More about this week’s guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iveta-lohovska-40210362/?originalSubdomain=at Energy to train an LLM: https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2024/01/29/data-centres-improved-greatly-in-energy-efficiency-as-they-grew-massively-larger Today I Learnt: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu9368 This Week in History: https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/testing-general-relativity https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/energy/special-relativity https://web.lemoyne.edu/giunta/ruth1920.html