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

AVST’s CX-E service joins the cloud | #EC16

Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) announced at Enterprise Connect 2016 that its long-running CX-E service would be gaining a cloud deployment option. CX-E, which for more than 30 years has offered an enterprise-class Unified Communications (UC) set of business solutions, will now be available to users as an on-premise, cloud or hybrid model, with subscription-based ...

Skype for Business market continues to grow | #EC16

Putting an early acquisition to work in the enterprise, Microsoft’s Skype for Business is seeing uptake by several companies, all announced today at the Enterprise Connect 2016 event in Orlando, FL. The service is part of  Microsoft Office 365’s Skype for Business (SFB). For starters, Numonix, LLC, announced RECITE, which Numonix CEO Avi Margolin described as ...

Avaya Breeze challenges DevOps to get creative with its new tools | #EC16

At this week’s Enterprise Connect event, Avaya, Inc. will join several other companies in unveiling products intended to enhance business productivity and communications. Avaya’s offerings this year will focus on two items in particular, Avaya Breeze and the Avaya Snapp Store. Avaya Breeze is an extension of the company’s established Avaya Engagement Development Platform, though ...

In-browser video chat links East and West business | #EC16

Finding ways to improve connectivity can be a challenge for any company, but this challenge naturally increases for larger and larger companies, particularly when networking long-distance. Three companies are looking to capitalize on this state of things by bringing new engagement solutions to the market of Chinese businesses, emphasizing ease of access and low entry ...

CaféX reveals new identity, connectivity tools for real-time networking | #EC16

At this week’s Enterprise Connect 2016 event, CaféX Communications, Inc., will be presenting its new brand identity, along with a number of other connectivity tools intended for real-time networking. There are three utilities currently made public as intended highlights at the event. The first of these is Chime, a finalist for the Best of Enterprise ...

Acquisitions and integrations powering intelligence at IBM | #IBMInterConnect

During IBM InterConnect 2016 event in Las Vegas, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, were there from the start to analyze the output and unstated implications from those attending the conference. While there was a lot to cover, some of the major points standing out included IBM’s cognitive ...

‘Whole focus’ on seamless integration and scaling | #IBMInterConnect

With the 2016 IBM InterConnect event in its final day, attendees were prioritizing their questions about the applications and utilities, putting their most pressing queries to IBM’s representatives to get a jump on using that data before the next conference comes around. John Furrier, host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, was joined by ...

Cognitive IoT and instant value | #IBMInterConnect

During the last day of this year’s IBM InterConnect event, conversations and presentations from the rest of the event were examined from new angles, with attendees from other companies and IBM’s representatives converging to find the best ways to utilize the latest developments and address new challenges. John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from ...

‘The Creator’s Code’ and the six essential skills | #IBMInterConnect

As another day at the Las Vegas-hosted IBM InterConnect event drew to a close, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, met with Amy Wilkinson (@amywilkinson), author of The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs and lecturer at Stanford, to discuss her book, its implications and the future ...

Cornerstones of cloud and cognitive computing | #IBMInterConnect

In Las Vegas, the IBM InterConnect event saw another day of presentations and discussions, including attendees looking for answers to find out how they could bring the displayed technologies to use in their own businesses. Representing theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, were cohosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. They sat down to talk with ...