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
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.
Clearing the Air on Video Over IP
By Karl Paulsen published
Differing terms rely on same core technologies, but different delivery systems
The Ubiquitous USB
By Karl Paulsen published
The latest version is SuperSpeed USB (SSUSB), also called USB 3.0.
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.
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
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.
Active Archives for the Future
By Karl Paulsen published
A lot of growth is happening in the storage space for media and entertainment.
Integrating Storage, Archive And Transcoding
By Karl Paulsen published
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.
Managing Valuable Space Through Provisioning
By Karl Paulsen published
Storage management or under-provisioning should never be a workflow stopper, but it often is.
Software-Defined Systems & Virtualization
By Karl Paulsen published
Of the many components found in a media-centric operating environment, storage might be categorized as one of the more evolving systems in the overall architecture.
Interfacing with the Cloud
By Karl Paulsen published
Cloud storage is fundamentally about the delivery of virtualized storage on demand.
The Evolution of Digital Content Delivery
By Karl Paulsen published
Many of the capabilities once dedicated to discrete boxes are now integral components of switchers, clip players and graphics generators.
Storage System Limitations Impact Workflows and Growth
By Karl Paulsen published
Integrating high-performance storage solutions into rich-media, file-based workflows bring a range of topics to the surface, one of which is why and how to select a storage system.
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.
Cloudy With a Change in Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
Cloud technologies seem to have created a quantum shift in the future of storage and networked services.
Exploring Storage System Efficiency
By Karl Paulsen published
A growing topic for many organizations, yet especially important to those who are facing space, power and operating-cost constraints.
Preparing for Data Migration, Part 2
By Karl Paulsen published
We continue from last month's introduction on data migration.
Managing Legacy Data
By Karl Paulsen published
Dealing with unstructured data is a challenge organizations have been forced to address regardless of whether it consists of documents, photographic images, or video and/or audio as files.
Understanding Layered Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
A hierarchy of varying value as material moves through differing workflows and applications.
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