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

How to find the magic of infrastructure | #IBMInterConnect

IBM’s InterConnect event, held in Las Vegas, continued in its second day with plenty of excitement from attendees eager to dig into the new services, announcements and products being rolled out by IBM for public consumption at the convention. John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, spoke with Steve ...

Following the thread: Sewing data into everything | #IBMInterConnect

As the IBM InterConnect event continued to gain steam, services and solutions were discussed between visitors and representatives, exploring ways in which the problems of tomorrow are already being addressed. One of the key areas of interest for these forward-looking efforts is, of course, Big Data. Larry Weber, program director of analytics platform and cloud ...

‘The magic fairy dust is in the software.’ Riding the wave of new storage | #IBMInterConnect

While the number of topics being addressed at the IBM InterConnect event this year is almost too long to list, finding knowledge on virtually any major tech concern as it’s being handled by IBM is easy to find. Along with the buzz around cloud services, traditional storage is remaining relevant, and Eric Herzog, VP of ...

Open source critical part of cognitive journey, says IBM | #IBMInterConnect

While IBM once had a public image of a virtually monolithic corporate entity, that image has softened in recent times, in part due to its support of and interest in open-source technologies. At the IBM InterConnect event taking place in Las Vegas, the open-source projects being fostered and developed by IBM are a significant part ...

Digitize now! The digital revolution is on | #IBMInterConnect

During the IBM InterConnect event in Las Vegas, things got off to a strong start with representatives from IBM and affiliated companies coming together to explore some of their most recent tech innovations. John Furrier and Dave Vellante of theCUBE, cohosts from the SiliconANGLE Media team, met with Laura Sanders, GM of systems services, global ...

Rejecting the wheel: IBM and IoT | #SparkSummit

As the Spark Summit East 2016 event drew to a close on Thursday, energy and enthusiasm for the topics and technologies addressed at the gathering were still high, with attendees still engaged as they headed for home and other business engagements. Wrapping up their coverage of the event, Jeff Frick and George Gilbert, cohosts of ...

Is Spark more than just ‘special plumbing’? | #SparkSummit

As the Spark Summit East 2016 event continued into its final day, more discussion of Spark’s potential and how to bring it to consumers was shared by attendees. Looking at how to address its competition and compatibility with Hadoop environments, making it more widely accessible, and finding effective ways to enhance revenue generation were all ...

The first-ever Spark industry forecast: How will Spark alter the tech landscape? | #SparkSummit

The first two days of Spark Summit East 2016 played host to the exploration of a wide range of possibilities for further development of Spark-based systems, though this was just scratching the tip of the iceberg in terms of what analysts expect to emerge. George Gilbert, Big Data and analytics analyst at Wikibon, spoke to ...

The Holy Grail of data: Simulations and predictive data systems | #SparkSummit

At the Spark Summit East 2016 event, all sorts of enterprises and solutions providers were represented thanks to the wide adoption of Spark as an engine for various tech services. Among the attendees taking part in the event was Ken Tsai, VP of cloud platform and data management at SAP SE, who took time to ...

The highlights and hazards of IoT services: Security, simplification and techno-weenies | #dellone5ten

Security, simplification and techno-weenies: How the Internet of Things (IoT) will overcome early adoption issues. Among the many attendees of Dell, Inc.’s 1-5-10 Series IoT Discussion in San Francisco, several stars of IT analysis, advising and consulting were present to provide their perspective on the options and opportunities open to the Internet of Things (IoT) and ...