Gabriel Pesek

Gabriel Pesek is a writer for SiliconANGLE Media's roving news desk team theCUBE, covering events and developments in the tech world. Repeated stints as a publication editor in high school, a focus on international language studies in college, and a self-published examination of H.P. Lovecraft's fiction have left him with a deep appreciation of new communications developments. An enthusiastic fan of music, Pesek is a long-time album reviewer for The Burning Beard, which has led to contact with up-and-coming bands around the world, while also maintaining daily reviews of albums from his personal collection. Raised in south Texas, he currently lives in north Louisiana.

Latest from Gabriel Pesek

Is Big Data giving sports teams a competitive edge? | #SportsDataSV 2015

As SportsDataSV 2015 drew to a close, the buzz over data gathering and utilization in stadium sports was evident throughout the SAP Center in San Jose, CA. Discussions and presentations from the day had shown that organizations were eager to embrace the possibilities opened up by these tech-based approaches to physical performance. John Furrier, Jeff ...

How data is impacting sports teams: From wearable devices to revised training programs | #SportsDataSV 2015

As the SportsDataSV 2015 event kicked off at the SAP Center in San Jose, CA, a number of sports team representatives were there to talk business about developing tech usage for their respective teams. Coming from near and far to exchange ideas and information, these teams are looking to the future of their industry to ...

Scaling, shifting and sublimating SDN services | #NXTWORK

At the Juniper Networks, Inc.’s NXTWORK 2015 event in Santa Clara, CA, things were off to a strong start, with providers and consumers on both sides of Juniper’s business coming together to get news of the latest hardware and infrastructure developments from the company. Jennifer Lin, senior director of product management for Juniper Networks, met ...

TMX Atrium automates from a single, secure plane | #NXTWORK

With the first day of the Juniper Networks NXTWORK 2015 event underway, announcements and presentations have those in charge of DevOps and security energized over the new innovations shown off so far. Enterprises using Juniper Networks, Inc.’s hardware and infrastructure, such as the NetScreen 5200 security appliance, have plenty to hold their interest at this ...

Watson and Spark offer new keys to effective analytics | #IBMinsight

With news of Watson, Spark-centric platforming and new data analytics innovations dominating attention at IBM Insight 2015, exploring these topics from the perspective of the customer base can help cut through some of the buzz to get to the business implications. Beth Smith, GM of business analytics at IBM, sat down with Dave Vellante and ...

Is this the end of the client-server era as we know it? | #oow15

As the first day of Oracle OpenWorld 2015 drew to a close, expectations for the rest of the event and the announcements that might be made were bubbling over on a variety of topics, with some of the highest excitement centered on possible responses to the Dell-EMC merger, how Oracle might handle AWS’ expanding footprint ...

Oracle envisions fully encrypted data center | #oow15

On the first day of Oracle OpenWorld 2015 in San Francisco, things got off to a strong start with clear and sunny California skies complementing the confident strides being made by Oracle in addressing customer needs for security and efficiency. John Fowler, executive VP of systems for Oracle, joined John Furrier and Stu Miniman, cohosts ...

Examining the fallout from Dell World 2015 | #DellWorld

At the end of the Dell World 2015 event, John Furrier, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, sat down for a round-table discussion of highlights and under-covered items from the events multiple presentations. The acquisition of EMC by Dell, Inc., ramifications for customers, market penetration and the need ...

Nexenta sees opportunities in Dell-EMC merger | #DellWorld

As Dell World 2015 drew to a close in Austin, Texas, the news, announcements and new partnership opportunities that had come to light at the event were on every attendee’s mind. Tarkan Maner, CEO of Nexenta Systems, Inc., met with John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to lay out how ...

Dell sets its sights on ‘future-ready’ enterprise solutions | #DellWorld

As Dell World 2015 continued in its second day, the glitz of the first day’s announcements was being tempered by the grounded reality of recognized business challenges, though these challenges do bring their own sort of excitement to the people working to overcome them. Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, VP & GM of servers for Dell, Inc., sat down with ...