
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

Object-Based Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
No longer is it practical to carry separate databases or other components in disparate systems that must be continually linked or interrelated through secondary or other alternative interfaces.
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.
Bigger is Not Always Better With Disk Drives
By Karl Paulsen published
There are several factors in selecting a hard-disk drive storage subsystem.
Fibre Channel Fends Off Competitors
By Karl Paulsen published
Fibre Channel data rates are about to double--again.
The Business Case for Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
In the process of planning for a system that will manage media assets, it becomes extremely important to quantify, qualify and clarify what the MAM, DAM or DRM system is to accomplish.
The Evolution of the Universal Serial Bus
By Karl Paulsen published
Portability is becoming a driving force in both consumer and professional media systems.
Archiving for Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
One of the elements in an end-to-end digital asset management system includes how long-term and near-term storage of media will be handled.

Designing the IP-Based Media Network
By Karl Paulsen published
Part 1: What broadcast and IT professionals need to know
MRAM: The Future of RAM?
By Karl Paulsen published
Relatively new memory technology could sidestep all current RAM technologies. The low-power, nonvolatile micromemory-cell technology is called magnetoresistive random access memory or MRAM.
Connecting It All
By Karl Paulsen published
When building any form of network, elements for consideration include manageability, versatility, compatibility and cost effectiveness.
Storage Architecture Continues to Evolve
By Karl Paulsen published
In the information age of the 21st century, one of the fastest-changing elements seems to focus on the means and methods of how information is stored and distributed.
Advanced Intelligent Tape Options
By Karl Paulsen published
In the next few short years, broadcasters all have to make serious choices in digital media technology.
Principles in Archive Management, Part II
By Karl Paulsen published
Last month we introduced you to the archive, one of the less understood components of the enterprise video server solution.
Principles in Archive Management
By Karl Paulsen published
The broadcast video server is not quite 10 years old and already a number of ancillary capabilities and components have become commonplace in their implementation.
Tempering the Cost of the Digital Transition
By Karl Paulsen published
Broadcast group owners continue to explore alternatives to operational practices in order to offset the costs required to make the transition to digital.
Prospective for Global Storage Networks
By Karl Paulsen published
Just how long will it be before the methods for moving media storage become synonymous with those of computer data storage in today’s global enterprises?
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