Latest articles by Karl Paulsen
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.
Flavors of Media Storage And Server Platforms
Selecting a digital media platform for the capture and storage of moving image content has moved well beyond the task of simply picking a “format.”
The State of the Media Server
Less emphasis on ingest and play-out, more attention paid to content management
Dimensioning the Archive
Media and entertainment have a dilemma when it comes to the preservation of their legacy and current media assets.
Understanding Storage Efficiency Metrics
In an era where the financial bottom line regulates most decisions, one area that is often misunderstood is efficiency in a data storage system.
Strategies for Asset Management
How much "asset management" is sufficient to meet the business requirements of your operation?
Methods of Information Delivery
The digital age is bringing to light a great deal more types of information and an equal number of variations in how to deliver it.
Understanding Storage Resiliency
It can be as mysterious as the topics of fault tolerance and virtualization—each having different meanings based upon varying contexts and diverse applications.
SDN: Not Just Another Three Letter Acronym
Software-defined networking replaces ‘static architectures’ found in traditional networks.
Asynchronous Interfaces For Video Servers
The ability to ingest and output MPEG-2 streams via an asynchronous serial interface, or ASI, is one of the emerging advances in media storage.
AI and the Digital Transformation
Artificial intelligence is causing a seachange in how media is searched, produced, distributed and consumed
NAB Show Showcases Broadcasters’ Move to IP
Annual gathering also highlighted advances in HDR, AI/ML, ATSC 3.0 and mobile video
Comparing IOPS for SSDs and HDDs
Solid-state devices (i.e., drives or disks)—known as SSDs—have a different set of impacts on the overall normalized IOPS equation.
Putting the IOPS Where They Count
A performance measurement commonly used to benchmark hard disk drives, solid state drives, and storage area networks is called Input/Output Operations Per Second, or IOPS.
Reframing the Object Store
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.
The Art of Load Balancing
Those who design, build or operate video facilities have grown accustomed to employing multiple PCs, workstations and IT servers as part of their systems.
