Technology Now

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/a50014950enw
Previous episodes on the subject:
https://hpe.lnk.to/cybercrime

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 accordingly
Why proactive prevention is replacing traditional troubleshooting
How 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

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 centres
How cooling techniques are evolving to meet AI demands
Why it’s necessary for IT companies to foster a transparent relationship with the public
What 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/

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 productivity
The 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

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 AI
How to maximize the efficiency of expensive GPUs
Why infrastructure is becoming self-healing
The 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/