
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

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

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

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

Understanding Layered Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
A hierarchy of varying value as material moves through differing workflows and applications.

Accelerating Performance
By Karl Paulsen published
Content production and distribution processes must now leverage high-bandwidth distribution at a level of quality equal to or better than high definition.

Virtualizing Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
A growing emphasis is being placed on managing storage.

Defining Intelligent High-Performance Platforms
By Karl Paulsen published
Spinning disks are replacing tape for most everything other than original acquisition or long-term, deep archive purposes
Fitting Metadata Into The Content Life Cycle
By Karl Paulsen published
The importance of these media elements is often catalogued by varying, application-specific sets of information attached to those elements in a variety of means.
Deciphering the Latest Storage Buzzwords
By Karl Paulsen published
The computer hardware industry is capitalizing on new bus and drive technologies aimed at faster data transfer, improved storage, and increased reliability and efficiency.

Clearing the Air on Video Over IP
By Karl Paulsen published
Differing terms rely on same core technologies, but different delivery systems

Appliances for an IT-Based World
By Karl Paulsen published
Video server technologies have come a long way since this column first surfaced some 12-plus years ago.

Object-Based Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
No longer is it practical to carry separate databases or other components in disparate systems that must be continually linked or interrelated through secondary or other alternative interfaces.

The 'Greening' of the Data Center
By Karl Paulsen published
More efficient storage technologies reduce both physical and carbon footprints
The High Performance Serial Bus Architecture
By Karl Paulsen published
The emphasis on high-definition production, distribution and play-out is presenting another set of evolutionary challenges to the video server marketplace.
Networking, Storage and Media Servers From CES 2008
By Karl Paulsen published
Networked storage, certainly nothing new to the professional or to the office, is taking on new dimensions for the consumer—at home, in the office and on the road.
Coding for Magnetic Storage Mediums
By Karl Paulsen published
Under a hard disk drive’s hermetically sealed housing that protects the platters, heads and electronics are some pretty sophisticated components that we’ve all been so accustomed to relying upon.
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