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

Know the Difference Between Backups, Archives
By Karl Paulsen published
Backing up data is a protective action. Archiving involves the long-term preservation of data.

Flavors of Media Storage And Server Platforms
By Karl Paulsen published
Selecting a digital media platform for the capture and storage of moving image content has moved well beyond the task of simply picking a “format.”

The State of the Media Server
By Karl Paulsen published
Less emphasis on ingest and play-out, more attention paid to content management

Dimensioning the Archive
By Karl Paulsen published
Media and entertainment have a dilemma when it comes to the preservation of their legacy and current media assets.

Handling NAS Sprawl
By Karl Paulsen published
Recognizing the problem is the first step

Understanding Storage Efficiency Metrics
By Karl Paulsen published
In an era where the financial bottom line regulates most decisions, one area that is often misunderstood is efficiency in a data storage system.

Strategies for Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
How much "asset management" is sufficient to meet the business requirements of your operation?
Understanding Storage Resiliency
By Karl Paulsen published
It can be as mysterious as the topics of fault tolerance and virtualization—each having different meanings based upon varying contexts and diverse applications.
Asynchronous Interfaces For Video Servers
By Karl Paulsen published
The ability to ingest and output MPEG-2 streams via an asynchronous serial interface, or ASI, is one of the emerging advances in media storage.
Methods of Information Delivery
By Karl Paulsen published
The digital age is bringing to light a great deal more types of information and an equal number of variations in how to deliver it.

SDN: Not Just Another Three Letter Acronym
By Karl Paulsen published
Software-defined networking replaces ‘static architectures’ found in traditional networks.

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

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

Comparing IOPS for SSDs and HDDs
By Karl Paulsen published
Solid-state devices (i.e., drives or disks)—known as SSDs—have a different set of impacts on the overall normalized IOPS equation.

Putting the IOPS Where They Count
By Karl Paulsen published
A performance measurement commonly used to benchmark hard disk drives, solid state drives, and storage area networks is called Input/Output Operations Per Second, or IOPS.

Reframing the Object Store
By Karl Paulsen published
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.

The Art of Load Balancing
By Karl Paulsen published
Those who design, build or operate video facilities have grown accustomed to employing multiple PCs, workstations and IT servers as part of their systems.

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