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- 1 weeks ago18 min
Landfill gas to AI: building the next generation of UK sovereign data centres | Nick Hume
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:How landfills can be transformed into power sources for AI tokens and workloadsWhy power, networks, and location are all vital parts of the sovereignty equationThe importance of modular data centres and what they could offer in the futureHow organisations can balance performance, cost, and control🎧 Listen for a front-line view of where enterprise technology is headed. Technology Now is HPE’s flagship, award-winning podcast that brings enterprise innovation to life – featuring real conversations with leaders, customers, and experts on how AI, cloud, and networking are shaping the future of business. Join hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell each Thursday for a new episode on how technology drives real change for companies and consumers, and why everyone should be invested in the conversation. This episode is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and wherever you get your podcasts. About Nick:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholashume/
- 2 weeks ago20 min
Public safety and real-time choices: the tech helping New Orleans’ first responders | Ross Bourgeois
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: How a network of cameras helps those responding to crime, fires, floods, and even natural disastersHow the city manages hundreds of terabytes of video dataWhy drones may make up the next generation of first respondersThe importance of unbiased video in response and investigationsHow real-time information helps first responders make safer, more informed decisions 🎧 Listen for a real-world example of how digital transformation is changing the way cities operate and protect their communities. Technology Now is HPE’s flagship, award-winning podcast that brings enterprise innovation to life – featuring real conversations with leaders, customers, and experts on how AI, cloud, and networking are shaping the future of business. Join hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell each Thursday for a new episode on how technology drives real change for companies and consumers, and why everyone should be invested in the conversation. This episode is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and wherever you get your podcasts. About Ross:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ross-bourgeois-a4209294/
- 3 weeks ago22 min
AI hackers & machine-speed responses: defence in the AI era | Mounir Hahad
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• Why known vulnerabilities still drive the majority of cyberattacks• What organisations can do to help improve their own security🎧 Listen for a front-line view of where enterprise technology is headed. Technology Now is HPE’s flagship, award-winning podcast that brings enterprise innovation to life – featuring real conversations with leaders, customers, and experts on how AI, cloud, and networking are shaping the future of business. Join hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell each Thursday for a new episode on how technology drives real change for companies and consumers, and why everyone should be invested in the conversation. This episode is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and wherever you get your podcasts. About Mounir:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mounirhahad/HPE Threat Labs: In the Wild report | 2026:https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50014950enwPrevious episodes on the subject:https://hpe.lnk.to/cybercrime
- Oct 1, 202618 min
The evolution of self-driving networks: from driver assist to full autonomy | Sunalini Sankhavaram
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:How machine learning works to help networks anticipate demand and respond accordinglyWhy proactive prevention is replacing traditional troubleshootingHow self driving networks can isolate and treat threats before they have a chance to cause damage🎧 Listen for a front-line view of where enterprise technology is headed. Technology Now is HPE’s flagship, award-winning podcast that brings enterprise innovation to life – featuring real conversations with leaders, customers, and experts on how AI, cloud, and networking are shaping the future of business. Join hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell each Thursday for a new episode on how technology drives real change for companies and consumers, and why everyone should be invested in the conversation.This episode is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and wherever you get your podcasts.About Sunalini:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunalini/ Self-driving networks 1-0-1:https://hpe.lnk.to/selfdriving
- Sep 24, 202620 min
Power, water and place: what makes the optimal data center location? | Andrew DesRochers
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: The importance that geography has on the efficiency of data centresHow cooling techniques are evolving to meet AI demandsWhy it’s necessary for IT companies to foster a transparent relationship with the publicWhat the next generation of data centres might look like🎧 Listen for a front-line view of where enterprise technology is headed.Technology Now is HPE’s flagship, award-winning podcast that brings enterprise innovation to life – featuring real conversations with leaders, customers, and experts on how AI, cloud, and networking are shaping the future of business. Join hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell each Thursday for a new episode on how technology drives real change for companies and consumers, and why everyone should be invested in the conversation.This episode is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and wherever you get your podcasts.About Andrew:https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdesrochers/
- Sep 17, 202623 min
AI agents, superpowers and human judgement: the rise of agentic enterprise | Suparna Bhattacharya
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:How agentic AI goes beyond automation and individual productivityThe importance of teaching AI not just how to do tasks, but the principles it should follow What role humans play in an agentic enterprise What an agentic operating system is, and why they could be a game changer🎧 Listen for a front-line view of where enterprise technology is headed.Technology Now is HPE’s flagship, award-winning podcast that brings enterprise innovation to life - featuring real conversations with leaders, customers, and experts on how AI, cloud, and networking are shaping the future of business. Join hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell each Thursday for a new episode on how technology drives real change for companies and consumers, and why everyone should be invested in the conversation.This episode is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and wherever you get your podcasts.About Suparna:https://www.linkedin.com/in/suparna-bhattacharya-5a7798b/HPE Labs miniseries on Technology Now, celebrating 60 years of innovation:Episode 1 – Sixty years of innovation: how would we use a quantum computer? | Masoud Mohseni | https://hpe.lnk.to/quantumcomputer Episode 2 – Is encryption enough to protect our data? | Nigel Edwards | https://hpe.lnk.to/encryption Episode 3 – Chatbots, agents & LLMs: the future of AI where bigger isn’t always better | Kirk Bresniker | https://hpe.lnk.to/llm Episode 4 – How to power AI: smarter cooling and the future of energy | Cullen Bash | https://hpe.lnk.to/powering-AI Episode 5 – AI agents, superpowers and human judgement: the rise of agentic enterprise | Suparna Bhattacharya | https://hpe.lnk.to/agentic-enterprise
- Sep 10, 202616 min
Self-driving networks, GPU clusters, and infrastructure: behind the AI boom | Praveen Jain
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, SVP & GM Data Center and AI Networking, HPE, joins the show to explain:The difference between a traditional data center and one optimized for AIHow to maximize the efficiency of expensive GPUsWhy infrastructure is becoming self-healingThe vision of an autonomous data center in the future🎧 Listen for an insider's view of the infrastructure powering the AI revolution.Technology Now is HPE’s flagship, award-winning podcast that brings enterprise innovation to life - featuring real conversations with leaders, customers, and experts on how AI, cloud, and networking are shaping the future of business. Join hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell each Thursday for a new episode on how technology drives real change for companies and consumers, and why everyone should be invested in the conversation.This episode is available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts.About Praveen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveen-jain-24b633/
- Sep 3, 202616 min
Who owns your AI? Understanding data control, compliance & sovereign AI | Trish Damkroger
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: What sovereign AI looks like in 2026, and how it can be achievedThe five imperatives that organisations must consider when implementing sovereign AIWhy an effective AI strategy must come before decisions are made 🎧 Listen for a front-line view of where enterprise technology is headed. Technology Now is HPE’s flagship, award-winning podcast that brings enterprise innovation to life - featuring real conversations with leaders, customers, and experts on how AI, cloud, and networking are shaping the future of business. Join hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell each Thursday for a new episode on how technology drives real change for companies and consumers, and why everyone should be invested in the conversation. This episode is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and wherever you get your podcasts.
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