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How much power could be saved by turning off idling IT?

For years, IT infrastructure has run with maximum uptime, whether it’s being used or not. The important question now is: can the cost savings of powering down outweigh the perceived risks of technology not turning back on? This week, Technology Now examines the shifting mindset of those running our IT infrastructure, joined by Jostein Birkeland, a Principal Technologist for Sustainable Transformation in the HPE Living Progress Team, to discuss:

Formula 1 races are won in the blink of an eye, so how do you shave off every last millisecond? The answer is simple: technology.
 
From 3D modelling and wind tunnel testing to a trackside mobile data centre working in the background of every race, the battle of data is becoming as important as the battle between drivers when it comes to winning a race. This week, Technology Now is joined by Michael Taylor, CIO for Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team to find out:

Could landfills power the next generation of AI?
 
As energy demands rise and costs increase, alternative energy sources are becoming increasingly important to organisations. In the UK, Era4 has begun converting brownfield sites into data centres – transforming landfill methane into electricity used to power sovereign AI infrastructure. This week on Technology Now, Nick Hume, CTO of Era4, joins the show to explain:

Every detail matters when you’re responding to an emergency, but what if first responders could see what was happening before they arrived?
 
In New Orleans, the Real Time Crime Center is doing just that. Working alongside 9-1-1 dispatch, they help first responders gain a fuller understanding of an emergency before they get there. Ross Bourgeois, Director of Public Safety Support Services & Real Time Crime Center, City of New Orleans, joins Technology Now to help us understand:
 

Every cyberattack needs to get its foot in the door to break in. In the past, humans took time to find these weaknesses, but with AI discovering vulnerabilities at machine speed and linking them together, turning minor security gaps into serious threats, our approach to defence has been forced to change.

This week, Technology Now is joined by Mounir Hahad, Head of HPE Threat Labs, to discuss:
• How much the world has changed since the publication of the inaugural Threat Labs report into the security landscape, just six months ago
• How cybercrime has become industrialised
•...

The best piece of technology is often the one you don’t even notice. When it works, everything runs smoothly and the tech itself vanishes – but how we achieve this is changing dramatically with the power of AI.

This week on the show, we’re following up our ‘Self-Driving Networks 1-0-1’ episode with a ‘Self-Driving Networks 1-0-2’: what do these networks look like in practice? Sunalini Sankhavaram, VP Product Management, HPE Networking, joins host Michael Bird to discuss:

As AI demand continues to grow, so does the public scrutiny of the data centres that provide it. 

With more data centres being built to meet that demand, running these facilities efficiently has never been more important. Communities are also increasingly asking what impact this infrastructure will have on local resources, while misinformation and conflicting claims around the topic can make it difficult to separate fact from fiction.

This week on Technology Now, Andrew DesRochers, Principal Technologist for Sustainable Transformation at HPE, joins the show to discuss: 

What if AI could do more than just help employees and instead assist with the running of an entire organisation?

As businesses move beyond chatbots and start to integrate AI into their day to day working, a new type of organisation is appearing: the agentic enterprise. This week, Technology Now explores this new form of enterprise with Suparna Bhattacharya, HPE Fellow, AI Research Lab at HPE Labs to find out:

Creating effective AI models takes more than just huge amounts of compute. It requires the high-performance networks needed to connect increasingly powerful GPU clusters and move vast amounts of data. With the speed of AI adoption showing no signs of slowing, our entire infrastructure is having to change to keep up, but can the AI being trained also be used to increase the efficiency of the networks supporting it?

This week, Technology Now revisits the concepts of networks for AI and AI for networking, to see how much has changed in the last six months. Praveen Jain...

As AI adoption continues to accelerate, how can organisations maintain control of their data, infrastructure, and AI strategy?

Sovereign AI is rapidly moving from planning and discussions to practical implementation, making it more important than ever for IT decision-makers to understand what it is and how it works.

So, what does it take to deploy sovereign AI effectively while maintaining control, meeting compliance requirements, and protecting valuable data? This week, Technology Now is joined by Trish Damkroger, SVP & GM, HPC & AI, to find out:

AI is transforming the technology industry, but it’s also transforming how we think about energy.
 
As AI models continue to grow, data centres continue to pop up, and agentic AI becomes part of everyday life, our tech infrastructure is consuming more energy than ever before. So how do we power the next generation of AI? In this penultimate episode of our HPE Labs miniseries celebrating 60 years of innovation, Technology Now is joined by Cullen Bash, Deputy Director of HPE Labs, to discuss:

What does it take to deliver one of the world’s most complex sporting events?

In 2026, the Winter Olympics faced a challenge unlike any previous games: delivering secure, resilient, and effective connectivity over the most geographically distributed games in history. With venues spread across hundreds of kilometres, organisers built a network supported by more than 1,600km of fibre optics and AI-driven technologies to keep critical infrastructure running smoothly. To find out more about how this was possible, Technology Now is joined by Giuseppe Civale, Director of ICT Infrastructure and Venue Technologies, to discuss:

What do AI adoption, cyber resilience, and the great VM reset have in common? They’re all trends which are colliding to reshape the world of enterprise technology.
 
As organisations prepare for a future powered by intelligent systems, infrastructure, security and virtualisation are becoming increasingly connected strategic priorities. This week, Technology Now explores how these changes are reshaping enterprise technology, as Patrick Osborne, SVP Hybrid Cloud and Office of the CTO, joins the show to discuss:

What do you do when you create an AI that can find security vulnerabilities in almost everything? 

As AI exposes vulnerabilities hidden deep within critical systems, organisations face a new challenge: staying ahead of threats that can now be discovered at machine speed.

This week, Technology Now explores the changing cyber security landscape as AI transforms how vulnerabilities are found, fixed, and exploited, forcing organisations to rethink how they manage risk. Jon Green, CTO HPE Networking, joins us to help explain:

In 2022, a watershed moment changed the course of our relationship with AI forever, forcing us to reassess what ‘artificial intelligence’ means and its place in our world. Four years later, with generative AI and LLMs now mainstream in our lives, we must ask the question: what comes next?

This week, as part of our mini-series celebrating 60 years of innovation with HPE Labs, Technology Now is joined by Kirk Bresniker, Chief Architect at HPE Labs to look to the future and discuss:

As agentic AI becomes more commonplace, the way in which we interact with our technology is fundamentally changing.
 
Engineers are giving way to domain experts, as the role of IT in the workplace evolves faster than ever before. This week, Technology Now is joined by Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer HPE Networking to discuss:
 
• What AI looks like in 2026, traditional models, agentic AI, and more
• The surprising role of “bad” data in training models
• How businesses and organisations must respond to the new AI-first world
 
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Sometimes the biggest challenge isn’t having enough data, it’s knowing what to do with it.
 
As agentic AI moves to real-world deployment, our cities and towns are becoming smarter. The mountain town of Vail, Colorado is just one such example of where artificial intelligence is helping streamline services, improve decision making and enhance experiences for residents and visitors alike. This week, Technology Now welcomes Robin Braun, VP, AI Business Development, Hybrid Cloud, to the show to find out:
 
• How AI has been successfully used in Vail to improve outcomes for staff and consumers
• Why...

Zero Trust has transitioned from buzzword to basic necessity. As AI has transformed the cybersecurity landscape, becoming a tool for both attack and defence, organisations are being forced to rethink how thy protect themselves, their users, and their networks. Technology Now welcomes back friend of the show Jaye Tillson, CTO Security and HPE Distinguished Technologist to discuss:

• The impact of AI on cyber threats as well as cybersecurity
• How Zero Trust can contain breeches if they cannot be prevented entirely
• Why limited access is more important than ever in a distributed network

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AI is making our technology smarter… but it’s also making it much, much hotter.

With higher demand for HPC and enterprise AI, data centres are having to adapt to meet the changing demands on the modern world. This week, Technology Now is joined by Jason Zeiler Principal Product Manager for Next Generation Infrastructure and HPC/AI Liquid Cooling at HPE to find out:

• The efficiency benefits of liquid cooling compared to air cooling and why that isn’t always enough to convince enterprises to switch
• Whether future data centres will be built from first prin...

Recorded in front of a live studio audience at HPE Discover 2026, Michael Bird talks to EVP, President and General Manager of HPE Networking, Rami Rahim, about the future of our network infrastructure. Key takeaways include:

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What’s changing in enterprise tech - and what should leaders be preparing for next?

Recorded live at HPE Discover 2026, Michael Bird takes HPE CEO Antonio Neri on a gondola ride the Venetian Resort Las Vegas to explore:

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Are we prepared for the deployment of a functional quantum computer? This week, Technology Now is returning to the topic of post quantum cryptography. We ask why the deadline for migrating to PQC enabled systems has been moved up, we discover what a quantum computer actually needs to be cryptographically relevant, and we pose the question: when it comes to migrating your systems to quantum resistant forms of encryption, could it already be too late for some people to start?

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How is AI forcing our networks to change? This week, Technology Now is diving into the world of network architecture and asking how AI is forcing us to rethink what it looks like. We ask how AI requirements are different to regular computing, we explore why this makes cacheing obsolete, and we ask how our networks are going to continue changing into the future to cope with the demands of our new AI native world. AE Natarajan, SVP, general Manager for Routing Infrastructure Solutions, HPE networking, tells us more.

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How much power does the UK’s fastest supercomputer use? This week, Technology Now returns to Isambard AI, the UK’s most powerful supercomputer to find out how you run such a machine. We will explore how much energy it uses, how the system stays cool, and we ask if there are any planned future developments which could increase efficiency. Dr Emma Rose, Centre Manager for the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing, tells us more.

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Hidden in the corner of a carpark in Bristol lies Isambard AI, the UK’s fastest supercomputer. This week, Technology Now is visiting Isambard AI to find out how the system works, how it was designed and assembled in a modular way, and to discover what sort of projects it runs. Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith, Director of the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing, tells us more.

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How safe is our data from internal threats? This week, Technology Now dives into the world of confidential computing. We ask why regular encryption when data is at rest or in transit might not be enough, we explore how confidential computing works to keep our data safer, and we examine why this concept is so important in the first place. Dr Nigel Edwards, Director of the Security Lab at HPE Labs, tells us more.

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Are we ready for emerging cybersecurity threats in the world of AI? This week, Technology Now looks at how AI has changed the world of cybersecurity for both the good and the bad. We ask how AI is harnessed by attackers to try and gain access to our systems while also exploring how AI can be used defensively too. David Hughes, SVP SASE Security, HPE Networking, tells us more.
 
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How do you update a network without downtime? This week, Technology Now is diving into the world of telcos and how they keep critical infrastructure running while continuing to improve their systems. We ask how silos have been used historically by telcos, how AI and cloud are being embraced and how you manage the switch from old to new architecture without impacting users. Franz Seiser, Head of the Data Tribe at Deutche Telekom, tells us more.

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Do we have enough energy to go around? This week Technology Now investigates how organisations can use their energy more efficiently. We ask how important energy sovereignty should be, we consider the financial benefits of savvy energy use, and we explore potential ways in which waste heat could be repurposed. Karim Abou Zahab, a Principal Technologist with the Sustainable Transformation Team at HPE tells us more.

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How would we integrate quantum computers into our current infrastructure? This week, Technology Now is exploring the practicalities of quantum computing, not just how they work but how we would physically build one. How would it be used alongside traditional HPC, what would it be used for, and what would be involved in the process of actually building one.

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How could considering the whole lifecycle of technology help save money? This week, Technology Now is diving into the world of HPE Financial Services and examining the importance of reuse and refurbishment in the rapidly changing technology ecosystem. Maeve Culloty, President and CEO of HPE Financial Services tells us more.

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What is a self-driving network? This week, Technology Now is diving into self-driving networks 1-0-1. We explore what they are, how they work, and what benefits they have over regular networks to find out why an organisation might choose to use a self-driving one instead.

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Why is data so important in the healthcare sector? This week, Technology Now is diving into the world of data analysis in healthcare. We will be asking how different methods of data analysis can lead to different outcomes, we’ll be exploring how AI can be used to help find patterns in huge quantities of data, and we’ll be asking how historical legal rulings still influence our healthcare sector today. Lisa Marceau founder and CEO of Joyous and Alpha Millennial Health, tells us more.

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How are data centres tied to countries’ data strategies? This week, Technology Now takes a step back to look at why and how countries are investing in AI projects. We ask how large data centres are funded, built and powered, we explore how technology is procured for these projects, and we examine the impact of these giant structures on data sovereignty. Talal al Kaissi, interim CEO of Core 42, tells us more.

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How can technology be used in the fight against modern slavery? This week, Technology Now is exploring the impact of modern slavery and how technology can be used to try and reduce it. We ask what the scale of the problem is today, we examine what modern slavery can look like, and we discuss how organisations and consumers can work together to try and combat this practice. John Schultz, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary for HPE, tells us more.

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What’s happening at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2026? This week, Technology Now is on the ground in Barcelona at the 20th Mobile World Congress to delve deeper into the future of networking. We ask what are the big themes of this year’s Mobile World Congress, we explore why events like this are important to organisations like HPE, and we examine why consumers should care about events like this. Rami Rahim, President and General Manager, HPE Networking tells us more.

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How has the idea of ethics been affected by the rise of AI? This week, Technology Now is exploring the ideas of ethical and responsible AI. We examine how integrated into society AI has become, we ask how we co-exist with AI, and we look into how regular people, organisations, and governments are having to respond to the increasing adoption of AI. Kay Firth-Butterfield, CEO of Good Tech Advisory LLC and the world’s first Chief AI Ethics Officer, tells us more.

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How does a quantum computer work? This week, Technology Now is diving into the world of quantum computing. We delve into how quantum computers work, we explore what’s needed to build them and we ask what we should expect from this field of research in the future. Dr Michaela Eichinger, Product Solutions Physicist at Quantum Machines, tells us more.

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How is AI changing the way we store data? This week Technology Now dives into the topic of data storage in the world of AI. We explore intelligent storage, how data sovereignty is influencing how we store our data, and consider where the world of storage could be going in the future. Jim O’Dorisio, Senior Vice President and General Manager HPE Storage, tells us more.

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How are hospitals using AI and HPC to assist them in helping save lives? This week, Technology Now is joined by Keith Perry, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to explore how St Jude uses the latest technologies to help treat and prevent illness and catastrophic disease, giving patients and families more time, and more hope, when it comes to diagnosis.

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