Latest articles by Karl Paulsen
Dealing With Latency for Performance Improvements
Latency is a continual concern, impacting nearly all forms of media and communication systems.
Storage Trends—Exploring Objects and Scale-Out NAS
Network attached storage, or NAS, continues to expand in acceptance and in capabilities.
High-Speed Memory on a Card
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.
Cybersecurity and Accessible Storage Trends
Cybercrime has now surpassed the profitability of illegal drug trafficking.
Network Management for IP and Storage
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.
Trends in Storage Resource Management
No organization or individual is immune to the problems of limited storage capacity.
Scaling Servers to Fit the Workflow
Systems focused on media now have more IT specifications in them than media components.
Mass Storage Elements in IT-Class Media Servers
Broadcast central equipment rooms now include from a couple dozen to well over a hundred computers and servers similar to those used in corporate or enterprise datacenters.
Multilayer 3D Disks Expand Data Capacity
On any given day, it’s safe to state that local, enterprise and cloud storage needs continue to drive the world’s total storage requirements upwards.
Storage at the Speed of Ethernet
The future for video, IP and storage have at least one common foundation amongst them: Ethernet networking.
Automated Data Anomaly Detection
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.
Breaking Down the File System, Pt. 1
File systems, at the broadest of perspectives, have continually evolved functionally and dimensionally over the past several years.
Sorting Out SAS and SATA
If you’re looking to buy or upgrade a media storage system there are numerous choices with sometimes puzzling details to consider.
Preparing for Data Migration
Video, audio and metadata can be organized into numerous different sets without necessarily having any logical order or arrangement.
Selecting Mass Storage
The choices available in mass storage systems have proliferated to proportions that boggle the mind.
Managing Storage System Overhead
For the casual user, knowing the total versus usable storage capacity of their system is not usually of concern
Performance Tuning
Digital video/audio needs to be handled in the environment that it is most happy to work within.
Know the Difference Between Backups, Archives
Backing up data is a protective action. Archiving involves the long-term preservation of data.
