Media Server Technology
Karl Paulsen is Chief Technology Officer for
AZCAR, a leading Broadcast and Media Technologies systems integrator. An SMPTE Fellow and SBE Certified Professional Bro
Seeking Hard Disk Drive Latency
by Karl Paulsen, 05.05.2009
Spindle speed statistics seem only to take modest jumps and are far less dramatic than the increasing number of gigabytes of storage. More...
Getting the Image Right From the Start
by Karl Paulsen, 04.03.2009
Establishing and maintaining good image performance requires a thorough amount of planning at the system level. More...
The Virtualization Of Storage
by Karl Paulsen, 03.18.2009
As digital asset management systems begin to categorize and systemize the myriad assets in their domains and as the ability of humans to manage these huge volumes of assets diminishes—the requirements for new forms of storage More...
Predicting Disk Drive Failures
by Karl Paulsen, 02.23.2009
Hard drives are mechanical devices and as such will eventually fail. But what constitutes the "failure" of a hard disk drive? When should you replace a drive? More...
The Solid State Disk Revival
by Karl Paulsen, 01.05.2009
The evolution of flash-based memory for consumer and professional applications is helping to drive a renewal in solid state, scalable enterprise storage. More...
Looking Toward Green Blades of Servers
by Karl Paulsen, 12.02.2008
Server- and workstation-based subsystems are a natural course of evolution for what is extensively a software-based system architecture. More...
VOD in Demand
by Karl Paulsen, 10.29.2008
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. More...
Network Storage Management
by Karl Paulsen, 10.08.2008
Managing storage in a network environment is an ongoing requirement whether for broadcast facilities, data centers or even the home PC. More...
Inside the File System
by Karl Paulsen, 06.11.2008
Storage structures are becoming the “need-to-know” terminologies of the media server world. More...
The High Performance Serial Bus Architecture
by Karl Paulsen, 04.09.2008
The emphasis on high-definition production, distribution and play-out is presenting another set of evolutionary challenges to the video server marketplace. More...
Networking, Storage and Media Servers From CES 2008
by Karl Paulsen, 02.06.2008
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. More...
Basics of the Fibre Channel Standard
by Karl Paulsen, 12.05.2007
The standard of choice for many of the high-performance video media storage platforms is the Fibre Channel (FC), which is more than just switching or a type disk drive interface. FC is a vast set of applications with a depth not More...
Coding for Magnetic Storage Mediums
by Karl Paulsen, 10.03.2007
Under a hard disk drive’s hermetically sealed housing that protects the platters, heads and electronics are some pretty sophisticated components that we’ve all been so accustomed to relying upon. More...
Servers Enable Newsroom Workflow Changes
by Karl Paulsen, 08.08.2007
The advent of solid-state, optical and magnetic spinning discs for the capture of field content is moving newsroom editorial functions into an improved, high-speed workflow that changes how news is prepared and multipurposed. More...