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
Associative Workflow Technologies
By Karl Paulsen published
News crews and production departments no longer need to depend strictly on videotape as their sole source for recording media.
Fitting Metadata Into The Content Life Cycle
By Karl Paulsen published
The importance of these media elements is often catalogued by varying, application-specific sets of information attached to those elements in a variety of means.
Content Life Cycle III: The Hidden Agenda
By Karl Paulsen published
Video servers steadily add feature sets that help improve the workflow of a broadcast facility.
VOD in Demand
By Karl Paulsen published
Emerging from the depths of pay TV, video-on-demand and its widespread acceptance by the consumer has forever changed the way we view television programming.
Networking, Storage and Media Servers From CES 2008
By Karl Paulsen published
Networked storage, certainly nothing new to the professional or to the office, is taking on new dimensions for the consumer—at home, in the office and on the road.
Interfacing with the Cloud
By Karl Paulsen published
Cloud storage is fundamentally about the delivery of virtualized storage on demand.
Metadata for File-Based Workflows Becomes Core Component
By Karl Paulsen published
Metadata is essential to the success of file-based workflows in MAM or in the cataloging process for active or archived media content.
Storage System Limitations Impact Workflows and Growth
By Karl Paulsen published
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.
Integrating Storage, Archive And Transcoding
By Karl Paulsen published
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.
The Evolution of Digital Content Delivery
By Karl Paulsen published
Many of the capabilities once dedicated to discrete boxes are now integral components of switchers, clip players and graphics generators.
Cloudy With a Change in Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
Cloud technologies seem to have created a quantum shift in the future of storage and networked services.
Software-Defined Systems & Virtualization
By Karl Paulsen published
Of the many components found in a media-centric operating environment, storage might be categorized as one of the more evolving systems in the overall architecture.
Managing Valuable Space Through Provisioning
By Karl Paulsen published
Storage management or under-provisioning should never be a workflow stopper, but it often is.
The High Performance Serial Bus Architecture
By Karl Paulsen published
The emphasis on high-definition production, distribution and play-out is presenting another set of evolutionary challenges to the video server marketplace.
Coding for Magnetic Storage Mediums
By Karl Paulsen published
Under a hard disk drive’s hermetically sealed housing that protects the platters, heads and electronics are some pretty sophisticated components that we’ve all been so accustomed to relying upon.
Coding for Magnetic Storage Mediums
By Karl Paulsen published
Under a hard disk drive’s hermetically sealed housing that protects the platters, heads and electronics are some pretty sophisticated components that we’ve all been so accustomed to relying upon.
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