
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

Integrating Storage, Archive And Transcoding
By Karl Paulsen published
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.

The Evolution of Digital Content Delivery
By Karl Paulsen published
Many of the capabilities once dedicated to discrete boxes are now integral components of switchers, clip players and graphics generators.

Cloudy With a Change in Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
Cloud technologies seem to have created a quantum shift in the future of storage and networked services.

Software-Defined Systems & Virtualization
By Karl Paulsen published
Of the many components found in a media-centric operating environment, storage might be categorized as one of the more evolving systems in the overall architecture.

Managing Valuable Space Through Provisioning
By Karl Paulsen published
Storage management or under-provisioning should never be a workflow stopper, but it often is.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Exploring Storage System Efficiency
By Karl Paulsen published
A growing topic for many organizations, yet especially important to those who are facing space, power and operating-cost constraints.

Managing Legacy Data
By Karl Paulsen published
Dealing with unstructured data is a challenge organizations have been forced to address regardless of whether it consists of documents, photographic images, or video and/or audio as files.
MRAM: The Future of RAM?
By Karl Paulsen published
Relatively new memory technology could sidestep all current RAM technologies. The low-power, nonvolatile micromemory-cell technology is called magnetoresistive random access memory or MRAM.
Archiving for Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
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.
Bigger is Not Always Better With Disk Drives
By Karl Paulsen published
There are several factors in selecting a hard-disk drive storage subsystem.
Fibre Channel Fends Off Competitors
By Karl Paulsen published
Fibre Channel data rates are about to double--again.
The Business Case for Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
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.
The Evolution of the Universal Serial Bus
By Karl Paulsen published
Portability is becoming a driving force in both consumer and professional media systems.
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