
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

Changes in Media Storage and Infrastructure
By Karl Paulsen published
The user interface is simple, elegant, and dedicated to a streamlined and efficient workflow.

Increasing Storage Capacities With Nanotechnologies
By Karl Paulsen published
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.

Putting Some Fibre in Your Storage Diet
By Karl Paulsen published
Two decades after its beginning in 1988, the ubiquitous Fibre Channel technology has become engrained in most of the advanced storage and transport applications.

Understanding IP Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
An evolving technology with a growing set of flavors from which to choose from

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

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.

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.

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.
Inside the File System
By Karl Paulsen published
Storage structures are becoming the “need-to-know” terminologies of the media server world.
Inside the File System
By Karl Paulsen published
Storage structures are becoming the “need-to-know” terminologies of the media server world.
Workflow in a Hybrid SD/HD News Production Environment
By Karl Paulsen published
One of the approaches that broadcasters and news organizations are considering is a hybrid mix of widescreen standard-definition field material coupled with live studio high-definition production.
Tools and Practices for Managing Media Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
The reliability of media server systems and their storage networks continues to be a growing factor in determining which systems are employed and how.
Archiving for Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
One of the elements in an end-to-end digital asset management system includes how long-term and near-term storage of media will be handled.
Anticipating Storage Management Needs
By Karl Paulsen published
Storage is now the name of the game and the wake-up call to address it has already happened. Postponing decisions related to long-term digital media storage is just not an option.
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