Latest articles by Karl Paulsen
Practicalities of Object Storage
Object storage is used heavily in public cloud storage solutions and especially when the data is geographically disbursed for protection and accessibility purposes.
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.
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.
Integrating Storage, Archive And Transcoding
When looking at the accessibility side, one must consider both capacity and speed as well as which types of media and format fit which set of activities.
Interfacing with the Cloud
Cloud storage is fundamentally about the delivery of virtualized storage on demand.
Managing Valuable Space Through Provisioning
Storage management or under-provisioning should never be a workflow stopper, but it often is.
Cloudy With a Change in Storage
Cloud technologies seem to have created a quantum shift in the future of storage and networked services.
The Workflow of Storage
Entire industry sectors, not just broadcast, media and entertainment, encourage drive manufacturers to throw fuel on this uncontrollable fire.
The Evolution of Digital Content Delivery
Many of the capabilities once dedicated to discrete boxes are now integral components of switchers, clip players and graphics generators.
Active Archives for the Future
A lot of growth is happening in the storage space for media and entertainment.
Metadata for File-Based Workflows Becomes Core Component
Metadata is essential to the success of file-based workflows in MAM or in the cataloging process for active or archived media content.
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.
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.
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.
Storage System Limitations Impact Workflows and Growth
Integrating high-performance storage solutions into rich-media, file-based workflows bring a range of topics to the surface, one of which is why and how to select a storage system.
Planning MAM Architectures
For consistency it is imperative to track what happens each time a file is generated, manipulated and moved through the workflow
Managing Legacy Data
Dealing with unstructured data is a challenge organizations have been forced to address regardless of whether it consists of documents, photographic images, or video and/or audio as files.
Preparing for Data Migration, Part 2
We continue from last month's introduction on data migration.
