
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

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

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

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.

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

Appliances for an IT-Based World
By Karl Paulsen published
Video server technologies have come a long way since this column first surfaced some 12-plus years ago.

Defining Intelligent High-Performance Platforms
By Karl Paulsen published
Spinning disks are replacing tape for most everything other than original acquisition or long-term, deep archive purposes

Getting the Image Right From the Start
By Karl Paulsen published
Establishing and maintaining good image performance requires a thorough amount of planning at the system level.

Clearing the Air on Video Over IP
By Karl Paulsen published
Differing terms rely on same core technologies, but different delivery systems

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.

The 'Greening' of the Data Center
By Karl Paulsen published
More efficient storage technologies reduce both physical and carbon footprints
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.
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.
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.

VOD in Demand
By Karl Paulsen published
Emerging from the depths of pay TV, video-on-demand and its widespread acceptance by the consumer has forever changed the way we view television programming.
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.

Interfacing with the Cloud
By Karl Paulsen published
Cloud storage is fundamentally about the delivery of virtualized storage on demand.

Metadata for File-Based Workflows Becomes Core Component
By Karl Paulsen published
Metadata is essential to the success of file-based workflows in MAM or in the cataloging process for active or archived media content.
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