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
Network Storage Management
By Karl Paulsen published
Managing storage in a network environment is an ongoing requirement whether for broadcast facilities, data centers or even the home PC.
Tools and Practices for Managing Media Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
The reliability of media server systems and their storage networks continues to be a growing factor in determining which systems are employed and how.
Storage: Sending Out an SAS
By Karl Paulsen published
High speed, high bandwidth and high availability--all are on the "must-have" list for advanced media storage technologies.
Anticipating Storage Management Needs
By Karl Paulsen published
Storage is now the name of the game and the wake-up call to address it has already happened. Postponing decisions related to long-term digital media storage is just not an option.
How Networking Changes Storage Structures
By Karl Paulsen published
The end of the analog broadcast era signals opportunities for broadcasters to add services that will force infrastructure changes beyond those just recently made to support digital television.
Video Servers Go Above and Beyond
By Karl Paulsen published
Users of video server products are continuing their dependence upon them beyond just spot or interstitial playback of media.
Meeting the Demands of Networking Infrastructures
By Karl Paulsen published
The business of managing information technology continues to spawn a number of tactical debates on all fronts.
File Interchange, Part I
By Karl Paulsen published
Video server users have long sought a means to exchange files between differing video and media server platforms.
Metadata for File-Based Workflows Becomes Core Component
By Karl Paulsen published
Media management, storage systems and video servers all employ varying degrees of metadata to keep track of the assets stored on their systems.
A File System for Linear Digital Tape
By Karl Paulsen published
LTFS offers shared access, flexible backup and archiving
Exploring Solid-State Drives
By Karl Paulsen published
Solid - state drives, known as SSDs, can be found in today’s ultra-thin computers and in other devices such as tablets where memory requirements above 64 GB or so are necessary.
Achieving the New Technology Of Shingled Magnetic Recording
By Karl Paulsen published
The quest to achieve more magnetic storage in the same or smaller footprint continues as scientists and manufacturers strive to reach maximum technology potentials.
Increasing Storage Capacities With Nanotechnologies
By Karl Paulsen published
Despite the lack of enormous technological changes in the storage and server technology space in 2012, big changes are still expected for the remainder of this decade.
Solid-State Highlights From CES
By Karl Paulsen published
International CES offered more than just the latest in ultra high-definition 4K TV, OLEDS and every form of tablet and smart phone accessory on the planet.
Changes in Media Storage and Infrastructure
By Karl Paulsen published
The user interface is simple, elegant, and dedicated to a streamlined and efficient workflow.
How Access Time Affects System Performance
By Karl Paulsen published
If one component performs poorly, the overall system is then dragged down to that lowest common denominator