Karl Paulsen

The growth in data is, has and continues to be a topic that influences how much and what types of storage architectures, etc., are selected and for what applications.

Long ago, storage components were principally ranked by the individual physical capacity of the device, or in the case of JBODs (just a bunch of disks), the array.

Cloudspotters Journal How best to balance different components for archive management.

No organization or individual is immune to the problems of limited storage capacity.

Storage systems, whether or not coupled with editing systems, MAMs or other production-related data systems within broad- cast facilities, are all headed in the direction of IP-based infrastructures.

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.