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

Profiling data into customer value | #infa16

With the gathering this week for Informatica World 2016 in San Francisco, CA, data in its many forms is getting a close examination for ways to improve utility for enterprises and individuals. Ash Parikh, VP of Marketing, Enterprise Software – Big Data, IoT, Data Integration, Cloud and Data Security at Informatica Corp., sat down with ...

ServiceNow Inspire seeks out the leaders of change | #Know16

With most of the focus of this year’s ServiceNow Knowledge16 event concentrated on its IT service management utilities, some of the company’s other services are comparatively under the radar, though ServiceNow is working to correct that. Michael Hubbard, global VP of ServiceNow Inspire, joined Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), cohosts of theCUBE, from the ...

Reducing the mass of paper with ITSM | #Know16

At ServiceNow Knowledge16, discussions of ServiceNow’s expansion into new market sectors were a big part of the conversations taking place, but the influence its services are having on the more traditional enterprises also got its share of the spotlight. April Carter, IT Operations senior manager at Cars.com, met with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), ...

Financial services group creates end-to-end engagement | #Know16

Among the representative attendees at the ServiceNow Knowledge16 event taking place this week, several are from companies which have partnered together, with a number of these partnerships brought together by working with ServiceNow’s utilities. Frank DeSantis, director of service management integration at The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., and Saurabh Dubey, director of management consulting ...

How data and systems help Stone Brewing expand globally | #Know16

While a major share of the attendees at this year’s ServiceNow Knowledge16 conference were directly involved in the tech market, there’s also a significant portion of attendees representing companies from outside that sphere, which nonetheless are still gaining notable benefits from adoption and integration of ServiceNow’s products and platforms. Brian Andrews, VP of IT at ...

Finding platform stability in a volatile tech market | #SAPPHIRENOW

With the volatile tech market, finding any way to add stability to an enterprise’s operations can be a major boost to revenue and operational efficiency, so when a full platform for doing so emerges, companies are quick to take notice. Marc Geall, SVP and GM of HANA Cloud Platform Partner Innovation at SAP SE, met ...

Hana’s disruption and reinforcement of data management | #SAPPHIRENOW

Accessibility and reliability are strong qualities in any software or hardware environment, but for the Hana cloud platform, being show-cased at SAP SapphireNOW conference, those are the bywords for design and customer approaches. Irfan Khan, CTO of Global Customer Operations at SAP SE, sat down to talk with John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts ...

Overcoming the Snowden effect: Security, sovereignty and scalability in the enterprise | #Know16

One of the less glamorous aspects of networking is the security side of things, despite the vital role it plays in keeping all the other data running smoothly. At ServiceNow’s Knowledge16 conference, ServiceNow, Inc. is attempting to put some of the spotlight on this integral service and make attendees more aware of its part in their ...

Businesses demand innovation, value and differentiation | #SAPPHIRENOW

As the final day of this year’s SAP Sapphire 2016 event came to a close, the discussions and presentations were already being dissected for the tell-tale indicators of what lies in wait on the tech world’s horizon. Bronwyn (“Bron”) Hastings, SVP of Ecosystems & Channel APJ at SAP Asia Pte. Ltd., sat down with John Furrier (@furrier) ...

A peek inside the SAP-EMC partnership | #SAPPHIRENOW

While EMC’s merger with Dell has been receiving massive attention in coverage of the tech world, less attention has been paid to the innovations EMC is achieving with other partnerships. Henrik Wagner, global SAP alliance lead at Virtustream, Inc., and Mike Harding, director of Architecture at EMC, joined John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts ...