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

Simple governance for Big Data and its security | #BigDataNYC

As data governance methods grow in sophistication, the security needs of those processes are developing to match. For effective approaches by the security side of the data handlers, that data needs to be presented in an intelligible fashion, which is exactly where some companies are finding their niche. At this year’s BigDataNYC event, Tendü Yoğurtçu, GM ...

The path to keeping Big Data tidy | #splunkconf16

A simple fact with data is that the more of it an enterprise is generating, the more difficult it becomes to effectively manage and analyze. For the biggest players in the tech world, keeping data controllable is of prime importance, which is good news for the ones selling that ability. At this year’s Splunk.conf event, ...

Dot-com survivors adjust to the Big Data age | #splunkconf16

For all of the attention garnered by fresh startups in the tech world, the companies that managed to survive the bursting of the dot-com bubble can have success stories that are just as dramatic, if not more so. And as some of these survivors are finding, to continue on in the modern tech world, they’ll need to ...

Overcoming the limitations of “app real estate” | #splunkconf16

As data-mining, the Internet of Things and various other utilizations of advancing tech push and blur the boundaries between intended app design and their full functionalities, the battle for consumer attention is driving the development of nexus platforms beyond the business realm and into the hands of regular users. At this year’s Splunk.CONF event, Chris ...

Analysts assess security efforts in the Big Data age | #splunkconf16

With the role of data seeming to have no end in sight to its expanding importance to all sorts of businesses, the means to manage and analyze that data is finding a broader base of adoption. But as new audiences join in with this tech, finding new ways to keep that data safe is also ...

Driving market change: IBM’s acceleration and Power System moves | #IBMEdge

As IBM repositions itself and adjusts its investments and research foci, its OpenPOWER Architecture is coming into a position of high prominence in several of its plans for the future. During the IBM Edge 2016 conference, Doug Balog, GM of Power Systems at IBM, joined Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media ...

Finding a hybrid path to improved storage solutions | #IBMEdge

While cloud and traditional storage are being pitted against each other by some data mangers, others are finding ways to bring the two formats together to leverage them into more efficient systems for both. During the last day of IBM’s Edge 2016 event, Bina Hallman, VP of Software-Defined Storage Solutions at IBM, and Ken Barth, CEO ...

IBM stays afloat with the data-driven buoyancy of storage | #IBMEdge

As the accessibility and market penetration of cloud systems continue to grow, the idea that traditional storage is becoming an outdated field is finding a surprising number of customers ready to believe. For IBM, however, storage is becoming more important than ever in the new data age. As IBM Edge 2016 came to a close, ...

The modern role of storage and where IBM fits in | #IBMEdge

While IBM has not fully shed the monolithic corporate image it held so strongly in previous decades, the company’s involvement with cutting-edge technologies, such as cognitive computing, is helping to cast it in a more progressive light. During the second day of this year’s IBM Edge conference, Ed Walsh, GM of Storage, IBM Systems, at IBM, joined ...

Overcoming ‘fiscal realities’ to drive organizational growth | #IBMEdge

In a time when so many influential companies are emerging from relatively small startups, finding initial investors is often a make-or-break moment for fledgling enterprises finding their way through the early hurdles. During the second day of IBM’s Edge conference this year, Jacqueline Woods, global VP and CMO at IBM, met with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and ...