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
AI Technologies Weren’t Born Yesterday
By Karl Paulsen published
AI Outlook AI has been a source of speculation, observation (and entertainment) for more than a century
CPU/GPU Architectures for AI in the Cloud
By Karl Paulsen published
Cloudspotter’s Journal GPUs are better suited for tasks related to machine learning and deep learning
Cloud Production Assessment for Media
By Karl Paulsen published
CLOUDSPOTTERS JOURNAL IP in the studio is not even close to IP in the cloud
The Evolution of Multimedia Cloud
By Karl Paulsen published
Multimedia creation and its content distribution are prime candidates for cloud; this feature analyzes the medium’s path from tape to data
High-Availability Storage System Considerations
By Karl Paulsen published
In high-performance media and entertainment environments, much of the storage utilized may require high-availability functionality
The Basics of End-to-End Cloud Media Production
By Karl Paulsen published
Dashboards and virtualized desktops enter the mix
Intelligent Data Terms & Tiering
By Karl Paulsen published
A primer on understanding the lingo
Selecting a Storage Architecture
By Karl Paulsen published
Style and foundation are key to performance and success
Composing an Infrastructure in the Cloud
By Karl Paulsen published
Intelligent systems can now make monumental improvements in capabilities
Cloud Storage or Local SAN?
By Karl Paulsen published
Knowing the impacts of both cloud storage or local SAN is an important study in capabilities and cost management
A Decade of Changes in Storage
By Karl Paulsen last updated
How the continual evolution of storage management progressed in the last 10 years
The Basics of Infrastructure as Code
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Provisioning and managing datacenters through machine-readable definition files is the premise of what is known as infrastructure as code (IaC)
Managing Media Production Workflows at Home
By Karl Paulsen published
Current environment may alter how production and studio facilities operate for years to come
Priming the Pump for Secure Storage
By Karl Paulsen last updated
How ISO/IEC standards can support storage security data and practices
Storage Modernization With PCIe and NVMe
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Storage Technology As higher resolutions become the norm, changes in storage are needed.
Re-Aligning Clouded Concerns
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Cloudspotters Journal The challenges and responsibilities of the cloud have changed since it was first introduced.
Learning to Spot a Cloud
By Karl Paulsen published
Cloudspotter's Journal What is the cloud, really?
Use the Cloud or Build a Datacenter?
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Cloudspotters Journal What is realistic to take to the cloud and what isn't?
Designing the IP-Based Media Network Part 2
By Karl Paulsen published
How do changing technologies impact next-gen facility designs and implementations?
Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
By Karl Paulsen published
Cloud service-provider offerings continue to grow rapidly, among which are those for disaster recovery (DR) services.
Making Use of Useless Data
By Karl Paulsen published
The Internet of Things has propelled storage demands and solutions (including the object store) into the next universe
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