Karl Paulsen

The business of managing information technology continues to spawn a number of tactical debates on all fronts.

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.

Users of video server products are continuing their dependence upon them beyond just spot or interstitial playback of media.

In the next few short years, broadcasters all have to make serious choices in digital media technology.

Last month we introduced you to the archive, one of the less understood components of the enterprise video server solution.

Broadcast group owners continue to explore alternatives to operational practices in order to offset the costs required to make the transition to digital.

Video compression technologies will change the models we've grown to embrace since the introduction of 500-channel cable and direct-to-home satellite broadcast.

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

Digital media servers are heading straight into the living room, thanks in part to the DVD evolution.

The emphasis on high-definition production, distribution and play-out is presenting another set of evolutionary challenges to the video server marketplace.

Video server users have long sought a means to exchange files between differing video and media server platforms.

In the information age of the 21st century, one of the fastest-changing elements seems to focus on the means and methods of how information is stored and distributed.

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.

On any given day, it’s safe to state that local, enterprise and cloud storage needs continue to drive the world’s total storage requirements upwards.

Those who design, build or operate video facilities have grown accustomed to employing multiple PCs, workstations and IT servers as part of their systems.