
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

Hybrid Secure Storage Devices
By Karl Paulsen published
Users of computer and server systems may have self-encrypting and/or hybrid hard disk drives and not be aware of it.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Practicalities of Object Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
Object storage is used heavily in public cloud storage solutions and especially when the data is geographically disbursed for protection and accessibility purposes.

Trusting Data Integrity
By Karl Paulsen published
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?

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

The Ubiquitous USB
By Karl Paulsen published
The latest version is SuperSpeed USB (SSUSB), also called USB 3.0.

The Workflow of Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
Entire industry sectors, not just broadcast, media and entertainment, encourage drive manufacturers to throw fuel on this uncontrollable fire.

Active Archives for the Future
By Karl Paulsen published
A lot of growth is happening in the storage space for media and entertainment.

Planning MAM Architectures
By Karl Paulsen published
For consistency it is imperative to track what happens each time a file is generated, manipulated and moved through the workflow

Preparing for Data Migration, Part 2
By Karl Paulsen published
We continue from last month's introduction on data migration.

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.

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

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.
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