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PCI Express 3.0* Intel Chip Chat - Episode 36

editor — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:01:35 +0000

PCIe 3.0 will double the bandwidth of the previous generation of this I/O interconnect and will improve power management of platforms - from notebooks to new generation servers.

Tags: PCIe, PCIe 3.0, PCI Express, Intel, Intel Chip Chat

VCS for VMware

editor — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:32:06 +0000

In this podcast Sr. Product Manager, Sunder Parameswaran discusses the challenges organizations face in implementing virtual server environments, and how Veritas Cluster Server for VMware can help in reducing complexity and decrease downtime. Find more information on Veritas Cluster Server

Tags: Sunder Parameswaran, Veritas, Cluster Server, VMware, Symantec, virtualization

PCI: What Does It Mean for You?

Paul Lancour — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:36:23 +0000

In this podcast, Barbara Mitchell, product manager for Verizon Business, provides valuable insight on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, better known as PCI. She explains what the PCI Data Security Standard means for businesses and who is affected, as well as how businesses can work toward compliance. Ms. Mitchell also discusses the multi-pronged approach that Verizon Business uses when helping customers achieve PCI compliance.

Tags: Banking, Financial Services, Payment Card, Professional Services, retail, Security, PCI, Verizon Business, Barbara Mitchell

Achieving PCI Compliance with F5

Michael Johnson — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:07:11 +0000

Meeting PCI (Payment Card Industry) requirements for application security is more than just implementing a Web Application Firewall for requirement 6.6. Learn how F5 addresses multiple PCI requirements across all its products.

Tags: PCI, Payment Card Industry, application security, Web Application Firewall, F5

PCI Express* 2.0 Speeds Innovation - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 4

editor — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:00:51 +0000

David Fair explains how PCI Express* Gen 2 increases speed, device interoperability and bandwidth. He also provides insight into the Geneseo proposal that Intel and IBM gave to PCI-SIG.

RSA 2007: Mike Rothman, Security Incite blog

Martin McKeay — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:27:08 +0000

Mike Rothman is a noted security analyst, blogger, author and “professional rabble rouser.” I had a chance to speak with him with for a few minutes at RSA in San Francisco. Mike and I talked about rebranding everything as NAC, data protection and PCI. According to Mike, this was an evolutionary year for security, not revolutionary; in other words, there have been a lot of improvements to existing products rather than anything new becoming available.

Tags: Mike Rothman, security, NAC, PCI

Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

editor — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:26:13 +0000

This podcast provides an overview of the Symantec white paper, “Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.”

This white paper breaks down each requirement and details how Symantec solutions can help organizations get–and stay–compliant. It documents only the sections and subsections of the PCI Data Security Standard that can be addressed using Symantec products and solutions. To download the whitepaper in its entirety, visit www.symantec.com/podcastpci.

Tags: Symantec, PCI Data Security Standard

BICOM HMS7: Streamlined, Sleek, Sexy

editor — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:19:37 +0000

Curves of brushed aluminum grace the BICOM HMS7, a combination PC and media server designed for the digital home. Inside, there’s a high-performance, energy-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processor, but outside the user-friendly front panel features touch-screen LED controls for music, movie, and program functions. Future expandability options include PCI, HDMI and Blu-Ray. “We wanted to get outside the box, to offer something that goes next to your stereo equipment,” said Ekin Binal, BICOM’s VP of product development. Binal said BICOM has always been an engineering firm; the company’s entries in the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design are its first PC design efforts. Could the HMS7 fit your digital lifestyle? The People’s Choice is yours.

Juniper Networks Master of IT, Eric Walters: 7-eleven

John Furrier — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:01:41 +0000

Eric Walters is manager of network services for 7-eleven, focusing on the continental U.S. and Canada, and he is a Juniper Networks Master of IT. The 7-eleven network is provides some big challenges, especially when it comes to the company’s many stores, and the technology those stores are using. Virtual commerce — using enhanced ATM machines — is only one of the many critical deployments of new technology that requires a highly secure, highly dependable network. (Another challenge — the stores are using a wireless system internally. That’s one more thing to maintain, and to keep secure….) Eric speaks with PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier.

This Juniper Networks podcast is part of the Juniper Networks Master of IT program.

Transcript:
Host: John Furrier - PodTech
Guest: Eric Walters - 7-eleven

John Furrier - PodTech
Welcome to the PodTech.net, Master of IT Podcasts, we are here with Eric Walters the 7-eleven Manager of Network Services, is that your title, what’s your title Eric?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Manager of Network Services.

John Furrier - PodTech
Tell us what’s involved in being the manager of network services for 7-eleven, big corporation, lot of activity, lot of locations?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
It is, I am in charge of the Network for North American Stores including the continental US and Canada as well as, we have 60 yard field sides around the continental US and Canada as well.

John Furrier - PodTech
So, tell us how did you get to where you are as Master of IT, tell us about what led you to being a Master of IT at 7-eleven?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Well, I have always been in IT; I have worked in many areas of IT in the network side specifically, done a lot in the areas of security and networking from large corporations.

John Furrier - PodTech
Eric, tell us something a little about managing the 7-eleven network, I mean it’s not your standard corporate organization, I mean every one knows 7-eleven, who has had to have make quick stops, talk about the security environment over there and a little about the network.

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Well, the challenges are wide spread, depending on if you’re talking about stores or just the general corporate network, but the biggest challenge, we have today is really our stores, where we have a lot of change going on, we’re using a lot of technology in our stores and providing a robust network to support those new requirements as an ongoing challenge.

John Furrier - PodTech
What kind of technologies are we talking about over there?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Well, we are implementing a lot of new technologies for, we have a particular technology called vCom, which is a virtual commerce and that is an ATM machine that does a lot of transactions including check cashing, money orders as well as carrying standard ATM transactions.

John Furrier - PodTech
You must have had a lot of challenges, how many stores do you guys have?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
We’re trying about 53 hundred in the US and 500 stores in Canada.

John Furrier - PodTech
And your network includes all of those?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Yes, correct.

John Furrier - PodTech
Tell us about your security challenge, that you guys face over there at 7-eleven.

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Well, I think with any company doing financial services or financial transactions, PCI certification has to be the largest challenge and we’re currently implementing a lot of different technologies to make sure that our network is highly secure and that we can carry customers transactions without any compromise of their data.

John Furrier - PodTech
Can you give an example of something that happened recently?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Well, one of the things is we are adding into our stores, a wireless network, that we’re using for a running use, not for a wireless hotspot, but we’re using it for carrying a wireless device in a store called MOT and it’s a Mobile Operations Terminal, it’s used to do store ordering and product check-in and the like and obviously implementing a technology like that in our stores we wanted to do it very securely, but also giving some flexibility to expand the capabilities of it.

John Furrier - PodTech
Eric, tell us about some of the access challenges, is wireless a challenge as everyone wireless these days, so talk about that?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
The biggest challenge is making sure that the wireless network in a store is secure against any outside access, obviously wireless Sting what it is, it can be accessed from both inside our location, as well as in outside of our location so we have to be careful in making sure that the level of security is at — what it needs to be to prevent access and not only that to monitor against access by an outside party.

John Furrier - PodTech
Juniper has the Master of IT program and also you’ve been designated as one, talk about a little about what Juniper has brought to the table, what they’ve done with you?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Well they’ve tapped out significantly both internally with our network as well as, all the way down to the stores, where we’re rolling out those wireless access points. The Juniper product is working out very well for us in that area, provides a very robust wireless access point, basically it’s a firewall with wireless access point built on top of it, as to our a lot of the other applications, there’re our other access points that are out there in the industry are really kind of the reverse, but there was an access point first and they kind of bolted some security on top of it.

We’re already very familiar with the platform that Juniper added this wireless capability too, so that was obviously a big benefit to us because we knew the capabilities of the device from a security perspective. So adding wireless on to that was a natural fit and really met the challenges that we had facing is quite well.

John Furrier - PodTech
Eric, you’re a master of IT, which is a great accomplishment, share with the folks out there about some of the things that you’ve learned, share with them something that you could help them way, so someone is out there who may have some of the similar issues that you had, what could you tell them?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Well, I think the key is being flexible. In today’s changing IT world, things are changing very rapidly, being able to be flexible and being able to have a vision towards where you want your organization or where you want your network to go and marrying that up with, what the executives at the organization are looking for is really challenging. It’s quite fun, but there’s a lot of challenge with staying up in IT these days, so really staying intend with the industry and with your peers in the industry is key to understanding the different ways that other organizations are addressing their security and network concerns and being able to carry that in your own organization as well.

John Furrier - PodTech
As you go forward, for the next few years, what do you see out there as the future challenges around the corner and the security and being just a master of IT, what does that outlook look like to you?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Well, I think the future challenges are that we are continuing to become more and more a Webified world and we’re seeing a lot of security challenges, all around the industry and in point security has become a really hot topic and how do you protect the in points in your network, whether it be an individual, whether desktop or a laptop mobile user, or our systems down in our stores, so security is really continuing to be at the fore front of every network manager’s mind.

John Furrier - PodTech
What you’re doing out there to keep on the cutting edge of the security issue, because security is really not going away, it’s always changing in morphing thing, what are the some of the things that you’re doing?

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Well, I think the biggest thing is staying in touch with my vendors and making sure that the manufacturers of the products that I use within our network are really in tune with what my issues are and also identifying whether the issues that I’m looking at are marrying up with where the products are going and making sure that I can address everything that we need to with as fewer vendors as possible and making sure that the security that they provide marries up with what we want to do.

John Furrier - PodTech
Eric, what do you enjoy the most about your job obviously being a Master of IT is a great accomplishment, what do you like the most about what you do?

John Furrier - PodTech
Well I think the thing that’s — the most intriguing is that it’s an ever changing world, there are constantly new challenges, which require you to stretch your thought process and coming up with new and creative ideas and ways of dealing with those challenges, this industry, there’s no way you can know everything there is to know about technology. And so there is always more to learn and more to get to know and that is the thing that enjoy the most about this, the work that I do is that you can never know it all, there’s just way too much that is out there.
We’re here at the Juniper Networks, Master of IT Podcast, talking about all masters of IT across the board.

For more information just see where all the Masters of IT are located, there’s a website www.masterofit.net, we’re here with Eric Walters, Manager of Network Services for 7-eleven, great company, good business, IT is a big part of it, a lot of locations. Eric thanks so much for the Podcast.

Eric Walters - 7-eleven
Thank you very much.

Tags: Eric Walters, 7-eleven, Juniper Networks, Master of IT, PodTech, John Furrier