Karl Paulsen

No organization or individual is immune to the problems of limited storage capacity.

For some time we’ve thought mainly about how file-based storage is used to contain unstructured data; i.e., those files relative to moving (video) or static (photographic) images.

Cybercrime has now surpassed the profitability of illegal drug trafficking.

File systems, at the broadest of perspectives, have continually evolved functionally and dimensionally over the past several years.

If you’re looking to buy or upgrade a media storage system there are numerous choices with sometimes puzzling details to consider.

The future for video, IP and storage have at least one common foundation amongst them: Ethernet networking.

The growth in data is, has and continues to be a topic that influences how much and what types of storage architectures, etc., are selected and for what applications.

Long ago, storage components were principally ranked by the individual physical capacity of the device, or in the case of JBODs (just a bunch of disks), the array.

Solid-state devices (i.e., drives or disks)—known as SSDs—have a different set of impacts on the overall normalized IOPS equation.

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.

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system.

Users of computer and server systems may have self-encrypting and/or hybrid hard disk drives and not be aware of it.

Systems focused on media now have more IT specifications in them than media components.

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.

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.

Many of the capabilities once dedicated to discrete boxes are now integral components of switchers, clip players and graphics generators.

When looking at the accessibility side, one must consider both capacity and speed as well as which types of media and format fit which set of activities.

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.