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

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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.

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The trend to an all server-based playback continues as more and more program content is being delivered as a file-based medium.

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Selecting a digital media platform for the capture and storage of moving image content has moved well beyond the task of simply picking a “format.”

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A hierarchy of varying value as material moves through differing workflows and applications.

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Most standards are developed and ratified by standards development organizations.

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For consistency it is imperative to track what happens each time a file is generated, manipulated and moved through the workflow

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The user interface is simple, elegant, and dedicated to a streamlined and efficient workflow.

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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.

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Two decades after its beginning in 1988, the ubiquitous Fibre Channel technology has become engrained in most of the advanced storage and transport applications.

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An evolving technology with a growing set of flavors from which to choose from

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More efficient storage technologies reduce both physical and carbon footprints

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We continue from last month's introduction on data migration.

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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.

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A growing topic for many organizations, yet especially important to those who are facing space, power and operating-cost constraints.

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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.
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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.
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Storage structures are becoming the “need-to-know” terminologies of the media server world.
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