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.

Today, Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE 802.3z) has become a mainstay standard for networking, yet the expected demand for systems with data rates in excess of 1 Gbps is no longer just a dream.

It goes without saying that data is one of the enterprise's most valuable assets - so protecting it is of paramount importance; yet for many, it's also one of the biggest headaches.

The reliability of media server systems and their storage networks continues to be a growing factor in determining which systems are employed and how.

1983 marked the dawn of digital storage

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.

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

IT professionals are beginning to turn to an old, reliable and proven drive technology that is being packaged into new products aimed at addressing the cost/performance equation.

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.

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 do changing technologies impact next-gen facility designs and implementations?

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.