Karl Paulsen
Karl Paulsen is the CTO for Diversified, the global leader in media-related technologies, innovations and systems integration. Karl provides subject matter expertise and innovative visionary futures related to advanced networking and IP-technologies, workflow design and assessment, media asset management, and storage technologies. Karl is a SMPTE Life Fellow, a SBE Life Member & Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer, and the author of hundreds of articles focused on industry advances in cloud, storage, workflow, and media technologies. For over 25-years he has continually featured topics in TV Tech magazine—penning the magazine’s Storage and Media Technologies and its Cloudspotter’s Journal columns.
Latest articles by Karl Paulsen
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.
The High Performance Serial Bus Architecture
By Karl Paulsen published
The emphasis on high-definition production, distribution and play-out is presenting another set of evolutionary challenges to the video server marketplace.
The 'Greening' of the Data Center
By Karl Paulsen published
More efficient storage technologies reduce both physical and carbon footprints
Object-Based Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
No longer is it practical to carry separate databases or other components in disparate systems that must be continually linked or interrelated through secondary or other alternative interfaces.
Content Life Cycle III: The Hidden Agenda
By Karl Paulsen published
Video servers steadily add feature sets that help improve the workflow of a broadcast facility.