
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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Unlocking Software-Defined Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
Just when you thought you’d had your fill of three-letter- acronyms, on comes yet another TLA; this time it’s “SDS” or software-defined storage.

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.

Examining Video Server Configurations
By Karl Paulsen published
Video servers are becoming commodity- like components for many applications, whether for a traditional television station play-to-air system or as an element in a content delivery platform.

Breaking Down the File Systems, Pt. II
By Karl Paulsen published
Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system.
Fitting Metadata Into The Content Life Cycle
By Karl Paulsen published
The importance of these media elements is often catalogued by varying, application-specific sets of information attached to those elements in a variety of means.
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.
Associative Workflow Technologies
By Karl Paulsen published
News crews and production departments no longer need to depend strictly on videotape as their sole source for recording media.
Networking, Storage and Media Servers From CES 2008
By Karl Paulsen published
Networked storage, certainly nothing new to the professional or to the office, is taking on new dimensions for the consumer—at home, in the office and on the road.
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.
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