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.

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 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

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.

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 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 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.

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 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