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
Understanding Storage Efficiency Metrics
By Karl Paulsen published
In an era where the financial bottom line regulates most decisions, one area that is often misunderstood is efficiency in a data storage system.
Strategies for Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
How much "asset management" is sufficient to meet the business requirements of your operation?
Understanding Storage Resiliency
By Karl Paulsen published
It can be as mysterious as the topics of fault tolerance and virtualization—each having different meanings based upon varying contexts and diverse applications.
Asynchronous Interfaces For Video Servers
By Karl Paulsen published
The ability to ingest and output MPEG-2 streams via an asynchronous serial interface, or ASI, is one of the emerging advances in media storage.
Methods of Information Delivery
By Karl Paulsen published
The digital age is bringing to light a great deal more types of information and an equal number of variations in how to deliver it.
SDN: Not Just Another Three Letter Acronym
By Karl Paulsen published
Software-defined networking replaces ‘static architectures’ found in traditional networks.
Facility Design Part III: Infrastructure Changes
By Karl Paulsen published
Finally say goodbye to copper.
Putting the IOPS Where They Count
By Karl Paulsen published
A performance measurement commonly used to benchmark hard disk drives, solid state drives, and storage area networks is called Input/Output Operations Per Second, or IOPS.
Comparing IOPS for SSDs and HDDs
By Karl Paulsen published
Solid-state devices (i.e., drives or disks)—known as SSDs—have a different set of impacts on the overall normalized IOPS equation.
The Art of Load Balancing
By Karl Paulsen published
Those who design, build or operate video facilities have grown accustomed to employing multiple PCs, workstations and IT servers as part of their systems.
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.
Taking Steps to Rebuild RAID
By Karl Paulsen published
Anyone with any type of high-performance storage system for a video playout server, play-to-air system or nonlinear editing solution of any scale has probably experienced this.
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.
AI and the Digital Transformation
By Karl Paulsen published
Artificial intelligence is causing a seachange in how media is searched, produced, distributed and consumed
Reframing the Object Store
By Karl Paulsen published
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.
At the Center of Scalability
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Storage Technology Seamless scaling is a different way to look at scalability.