Latest articles by Karl Paulsen
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?
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.
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.
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.
SDN: Not Just Another Three Letter Acronym
Software-defined networking replaces ‘static architectures’ found in traditional networks.
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.
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.
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.
Examining Video Server Configurations
Video servers are becoming commodity- like components for many applications, whether for a traditional television station play-to-air system or as an element in a content delivery platform.
Breaking Down the File Systems, Pt. II
Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system.
Taking Steps to Rebuild RAID
Anyone with any type of high-performance storage system for a video playout server, play-to-air system or nonlinear editing solution of any scale has probably experienced this.
Unlocking Software-Defined Storage
Just when you thought you’d had your fill of three-letter- acronyms, on comes yet another TLA; this time it’s “SDS” or software-defined storage.
Hybrid Secure Storage Devices
Users of computer and server systems may have self-encrypting and/or hybrid hard disk drives and not be aware of it.
AI and the Digital Transformation
Artificial intelligence is causing a seachange in how media is searched, produced, distributed and consumed
