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Can we build technology today to defend against the threats of tomorrow? Aug 28, 2025

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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.

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

How are governments reacting to the threat of quantum computers? Aug 21, 2025

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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.

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/

Why do sports teams care about technology? Aug 14, 2025

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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/

How can AI be used to commit fraud? Aug 07, 2025

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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.

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/

The Future of Innovation Jul 31, 2025

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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

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/

The History of Innovation Jul 24, 2025

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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.

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

Why are we still talking about virtualization? Jul 17, 2025

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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.

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/

How do you solve a network outage? Jul 10, 2025

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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.

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

What does the future hold for the technology industry? Jul 03, 2025

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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.

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

What's happening at HPE Discover Las Vegas? Jun 26, 2025

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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.

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

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