Technology Now

What’s the current state of play in the world of networking? This week, Technology Now returns to HPE Discover Barcelona for a discussion with Rami Rahim, President and General Manager, HPE Networking. We ask why networking is so important, how it is possible to keep the world connected, and explore what networking will look like going into the future.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. This episode is available in both video and audio formats.

About Rami Rahim:
https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/leadership-bios/rami-rahim.html

What’s going on at HPE Discover Barcelona 2025. This week, Technology Now visits Barcelona for an interview with company CEO Antonio Neri. We ask what the how the world of technology is faring a quarter of the way into the 21st century, we look forward to where we’re heading in the future, and we explore how HPE is responding to our changing world.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. This episode is available in both video and audio formats.

http://www.hpe.com/discover/barcelona

Why put a supercomputer into orbit? This week, Technology Now concludes its mini-series by looking to space. We examine our final objects, Spaceborne computers one and two, as well as Spaceborne Lunar. We will explore why HPE are sending supercomputers to space, how they have to be adapted to exist off world, and where they will be travelling to next.

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.

More about Norm Follett:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/normfollett/

Sources
https://www.pwc.com.au/industry/space-industry/lunar-market-assessment-2021.pdf

How do networks keep our society running? This week, Technology Now continues with the third episode in its miniseries with a further three objects: the A52 WiFi 7, and Juniper access points. We dive into the birth of modern networking, the security and technology required for “bring your own device” connections, and the unexpected things a modern day WiFi router can detect. Stuart Strickland, Wireless Chief Technology Officer and HPE Fellow 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 Stuart Strickland: https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00118725enw

How has compute evolved to meet the changing demands of modern society? This week, Technology Now continues with its mini-series, exploring objects two, three and four: the HP35 calculator, the HP 65 calculator, and the ProLiant Gen 12 Server. We dive into this history of personal devices and computing, how compute has evolved over the years, and where the world of computing is going to go in the future. Kirk Bresniker, Chief Architect 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 Kirk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkbresniker

How did HPE and Disney form a relationship which has continued for over 80 years? This week, Technology Now begins a mini-series to celebrate the tenth birthday of HPE. In Episode one, we explore where it all began – with the sale of an oscillator to Disney in the ‘30s - and how that partnership has continued to this day through digitisation, the pandemic, and the current AI explosion.

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 Alice Taylor:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicetaylor/

Sources
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5011/HP-9826/
https://www.hpe.com/nl/en/what-is/virtual-desktop.html 
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls093653710/
https://www.flywing-tech.com/blog/a-1939-audio-oscillator-caught-disneys-eye-and-helped-launch-hp/ 
https://www.hewlettpackardhistory.com/item/a-deal-with-disney/ 
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/about/history/innovation-gallery/008-product.html
https://www.thedisneyclassics.com/blog/animation-styles
https://medium.com/cinemania/a-puppet-in-walt-disneys-hands-ea2d5b43ef96 

What is Chapel? This week, Technology Now explores the programming language, Chapel. We ask what it is, how it was designed, and we explore why people would use it instead of some of the more established languages.

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 Chamberlain:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-chamberlain-3ab358105

Sources
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ada-Lovelace

https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/about/

https://cdn.britannica.com/31/172531-050-E009D42C/portion-Charles-Babbage-Analytical-Engine-death-mill-1871.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PunchedCardsAnalyticalEngine.jpg

https://www.mpg.de/female-pioneers-of-science/Ada-Lovelace

What is Chat HPE? This week, Technology Now dives into the world of workplace assistants and examines what must be considered when designing them. We explore why businesses want them, how they are created, and ask how good Chat HPE could be when designing a podcast... Jose M Mejias, a Distinguished Technologist working in the Data Office 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 Jose: https://pr.linkedin.com/in/jose-mejias-1233b323

Sources:
Joseph Weizenbaum. 1966. ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine. Commun. ACM 9, 1 (Jan. 1966), 36–45. https://doi.org/10.1145/365153.365168
https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/eliza-effect-avoiding-emotional-attachment-to-ai
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai

How do we know if our AI… is really AI? This week, Technology now goes under the hood of AI products when Baradji Diallo, an AI Innovation Architect in Technology Strategy and Evaluation working in the office of the CTO joins us to tell us more about how he and his team investigate whether AI products are really what they claim to be.

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 Baradji Diallo:
 https://www.linkedin.com/in/baradji-diallo/

Sources:
https://www.statista.com/outlook/tmo/artificial-intelligence/worldwide
https://www.historyofdatascience.com/ai-winter-the-highs-and-lows-of-artificial-intelligence/
https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/AI-winter
Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computing Research. National Academy Press. Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 08 September 2025
https://web.archive.org/web/20080112001018/http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/far/ch9.html
https://www.birow.com/az-elso-ai-tel
https://www.holloway.com/g/making-things-think/sections/the-second-ai-winter-19871993
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/2024/04/09/three-lessons-learned-from-the-second-ai-winter/

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