
Karl Paulsen
Karl Paulsen recently retired as a CTO and has regularly contributed to TV Tech on topics related to media, networking, workflow, cloud and systemization for the media and entertainment industry. He is a SMPTE Fellow with more than 50 years of engineering and managerial experience in commercial TV and radio broadcasting. For over 25 years he has written on featured topics in TV Tech magazine—penning the magazine’s “Storage and Media Technologies” and “Cloudspotter’s Journal” columns.
Latest articles by Karl Paulsen

Achieving the New Technology Of Shingled Magnetic Recording
By Karl Paulsen published
The quest to achieve more magnetic storage in the same or smaller footprint continues as scientists and manufacturers strive to reach maximum technology potentials.

Dealing With Latency for Performance Improvements
By Karl Paulsen published
Latency is a continual concern, impacting nearly all forms of media and communication systems.

Storage Trends—Exploring Objects and Scale-Out NAS
By Karl Paulsen published
Network attached storage, or NAS, continues to expand in acceptance and in capabilities.

Data-Defined Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
One of the hotter topics in the professional broadcast world is the generational transition to IP technologies for video.

Taking Steps to Rebuild RAID
By Karl Paulsen published
Anyone with any type of high-performance storage system for a video playout server, play-to-air system or nonlinear editing solution of any scale has probably experienced this.

Use the Cloud or Build a Datacenter?
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Cloudspotters Journal What is realistic to take to the cloud and what isn't?

Cloudy—Not at the Edge
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Cloudspotters Journal Edge computing can enhance cloud bandwidth, security and reliability.

At the Center of Scalability
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Storage Technology Seamless scaling is a different way to look at scalability.

Kubernetes Automates Open-Source Deployment
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Storage Technology

Facility Design Part III: Infrastructure Changes
By Karl Paulsen published
Finally say goodbye to copper.

Designing the IP-Based Media Network
By Karl Paulsen published
Part 1: What broadcast and IT professionals need to know

NAB Show Showcases Broadcasters’ Move to IP
By Karl Paulsen published
Annual gathering also highlighted advances in HDR, AI/ML, ATSC 3.0 and mobile video

AI and the Digital Transformation
By Karl Paulsen published
Artificial intelligence is causing a seachange in how media is searched, produced, distributed and consumed

Trusting Data Integrity
By Karl Paulsen published
How many times have you written a file to a directory only to find out, sometimes much later, it was corrupted, lost or improperly archived?

Practicalities of Object Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
Object storage is used heavily in public cloud storage solutions and especially when the data is geographically disbursed for protection and accessibility purposes.

Uncovering the Long-Term Cloud Archive Equation
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Cloudspotters Journal How best to balance different components for archive management.
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