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
Archiving for Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
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.
Bigger is Not Always Better With Disk Drives
By Karl Paulsen published
There are several factors in selecting a hard-disk drive storage subsystem.
Fibre Channel Fends Off Competitors
By Karl Paulsen published
Fibre Channel data rates are about to double--again.
The Business Case for Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
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.
The Evolution of the Universal Serial Bus
By Karl Paulsen published
Portability is becoming a driving force in both consumer and professional media systems.
Elements of the SAN
By Karl Paulsen published
The days in which new server installations in broadcast facilities consisting of a single dedicated array of storage are dwindling.
Prospective for Global Storage Networks
By Karl Paulsen published
Just how long will it be before the methods for moving media storage become synonymous with those of computer data storage in today’s global enterprises?
Storage Architecture Continues to Evolve
By Karl Paulsen published
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.
Advanced Intelligent Tape Options
By Karl Paulsen published
In the next few short years, broadcasters all have to make serious choices in digital media technology.
SCSI'S 29th Anniversary Review
By Karl Paulsen published
This year SCSI, the industry-recognized naming acronym for "Small Computer Systems Interface" is 20 years young.
Applying the Network Appliance
By Karl Paulsen published
Could the video file server evolve to become a video network appliance?
Principles in Archive Management, Part II
By Karl Paulsen published
Last month we introduced you to the archive, one of the less understood components of the enterprise video server solution.
Principles in Archive Management
By Karl Paulsen published
The broadcast video server is not quite 10 years old and already a number of ancillary capabilities and components have become commonplace in their implementation.
Tempering the Cost of the Digital Transition
By Karl Paulsen published
Broadcast group owners continue to explore alternatives to operational practices in order to offset the costs required to make the transition to digital.
Connecting It All
By Karl Paulsen published
When building any form of network, elements for consideration include manageability, versatility, compatibility and cost effectiveness.
Data-Defined Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
One of the hotter topics in the professional broadcast world is the generational transition to IP technologies for video.
Designing a Workflow Specification
By Karl Paulsen published
Most standards are developed and ratified by standards development organizations.