Karl Paulsen

There are several factors in selecting a hard-disk drive storage subsystem.

Establishing and maintaining good image performance requires a thorough amount of planning at the system level.

One of the elements in an end-to-end digital asset management system includes how long-term and near-term storage of media will be handled.

Portability is becoming a driving force in both consumer and professional media systems.

In the process of planning for a system that will manage media assets, it becomes extremely important to quantify, qualify and clarify what the MAM, DAM or DRM system is to accomplish.

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?

Artificial intelligence is causing a seachange in how media is searched, produced, distributed and consumed

Object storage is used heavily in public cloud storage solutions and especially when the data is geographically disbursed for protection and accessibility purposes.

For some time we’ve thought mainly about how file-based storage is used to contain unstructured data; i.e., those files relative to moving (video) or static (photographic) images.

Finally say goodbye to copper.

Just when you thought you’d had your fill of three-letter- acronyms, on comes yet another TLA; this time it’s “SDS” or software-defined storage.

Users of computer and server systems may have self-encrypting and/or hybrid hard disk drives and not be aware of it.

When looking at the accessibility side, one must consider both capacity and speed as well as which types of media and format fit which set of activities.

Many of the capabilities once dedicated to discrete boxes are now integral components of switchers, clip players and graphics generators.