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

Navigating network upgrades with NFV | #OpenStack

At the 2016 OpenStack Summit taking place in Austin, TX, enterprise representatives from diverse backgrounds are meeting to share their goals and innovations, but it’s also a place for companies with established connections to demonstrate some of the fruits of their collaborations. Chris Emmons, ‎director of network infrastructure planning at Verizon, and Kyle Forster, founder of ...

Investor notes for OpenStack, and the surprising role of AI | #OpenStack

At the OpenStack Summit taking place this week in Austin, TX, industry insiders and startup financiers are mingling freely while examining the continued growth and development of open-source technologies and services, finding ways to benefit their respective interests while doing so. Ryan Floyd, founding managing director of Storm Ventures LLC, joined Stu Miniman (@stu) and ...

Making Hadoop’s implementation easier by assessing past problems | #HS16Dublin

While Hadoop has been making its way into more venues of utilization, some representatives at this year’s Hadoop Summit in Dublin, Ireland, have been finding new paths forward by going back to examine what gave Hadoop trouble at the start of its implementation. Carey James, business development manager of Big Data solutions at EMC, and ...

API unifying platform MapR’s goal | #HS16Dublin

An increasing number of discussions and presentations revealing ways to effectively utilize Hadoop with regard to Big Data and efficiency improvement emerged during the second day of Hadoop Summit 2016 in Dublin, and finding points of divergence in these strategies is key to understanding individual company policies. Tugdual Grall, technical evangelist at MapR Technologies, Inc., and Ted Dunning, ...

Hortonworks’ data platform ready for future expansions | #HS16Dublin

Among the efforts to introduce Hadoop’s functionality and capabilities to new audiences at this year’s Hadoop Summit in Dublin, those who have already adopted it are looking for ways to expand and upgrade their existing data platform options. Scott Gnau, CTO of Hortonworks, Inc., met with John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of ...

Is the Hadoop ecosystem failing customers? | #HS16Dublin

As the first day of the Hadoop Summit 2016 in Dublin drew to a close, with it came a time to review the announcements and discussions of the day, as well as parse out the biggest and most subtle industry indicators. John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, ...

Information factories, identity standards and data at Microsoft | #HS16Dublin

Though part of the draw to this year’s Hadoop Data Summit in Dublin, Ireland, is to introduce it to new customer bases, many of the attendees are very familiar with the utility already and are looking for something that speaks more to the effect its wide adoption is having on the business market. Raghu Ramakrishnan, CTO ...

Hortonworks’ new community engagement hub unites users and developers | #HS16Dublin

With the first day of this year’s Hadoop Summit in Dublin underway, all kinds of operational aspects emerged to the surface in the discussions taking place, from the nitty-gritty development to the marketing and community relations side of involved companies. Joshua Woodward, developer relations manager at Hortonworks, Inc., sat down with Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohost of ...

Analysts dispel the myths of Big Data | #BigDataSV

As Big Data continues to gain prominence in enterprise and consumer realms, keeping pace with the ways in which it’s developing is a necessity for those hoping to remain relevant in the modern tech world. In the last hours of BigDataSV 2016, where theCUBE is celebrating #BigDataWeek, including news and events from the #StrataHadoop conference, John ...

Slaying the Jabberwock: Data science is a team sport | #BigDataSV

With EMC receiving so much coverage for its merger with Dell, its continuing business is getting somewhat obscured by buzz about upcoming possibilities. Inside the company, however, pressure remains high to keep developing ways of staying competitive and investigating data-value propositions. Bill Schmarzo, chief technology officer of EMC Global Services, Big Data Practice, sat down with Jeff ...