Karl Paulsen
Karl Paulsen is the CTO for Diversified, the global leader in media-related technologies, innovations and systems integration. Karl provides subject matter expertise and innovative visionary futures related to advanced networking and IP-technologies, workflow design and assessment, media asset management, and storage technologies. Karl is a SMPTE Life Fellow, a SBE Life Member & Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer, and the author of hundreds of articles focused on industry advances in cloud, storage, workflow, and media technologies. For over 25-years he has continually featured topics in TV Tech magazine—penning the magazine’s Storage and Media Technologies and its Cloudspotter’s Journal columns.
Latest articles by Karl Paulsen
Cloud Production Assessment for Media
By Karl Paulsen published
CLOUDSPOTTERS JOURNAL IP in the studio is not even close to IP in the cloud
The Evolution of Multimedia Cloud
By Karl Paulsen published
Multimedia creation and its content distribution are prime candidates for cloud; this feature analyzes the medium’s path from tape to data
High-Availability Storage System Considerations
By Karl Paulsen published
In high-performance media and entertainment environments, much of the storage utilized may require high-availability functionality
The Basics of End-to-End Cloud Media Production
By Karl Paulsen published
Dashboards and virtualized desktops enter the mix
Intelligent Data Terms & Tiering
By Karl Paulsen published
A primer on understanding the lingo
Selecting a Storage Architecture
By Karl Paulsen published
Style and foundation are key to performance and success
Composing an Infrastructure in the Cloud
By Karl Paulsen published
Intelligent systems can now make monumental improvements in capabilities
Cloud Storage or Local SAN?
By Karl Paulsen published
Knowing the impacts of both cloud storage or local SAN is an important study in capabilities and cost management
A Decade of Changes in Storage
By Karl Paulsen last updated
How the continual evolution of storage management progressed in the last 10 years
The Basics of Infrastructure as Code
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Provisioning and managing datacenters through machine-readable definition files is the premise of what is known as infrastructure as code (IaC)
Managing Media Production Workflows at Home
By Karl Paulsen published
Current environment may alter how production and studio facilities operate for years to come
Priming the Pump for Secure Storage
By Karl Paulsen last updated
How ISO/IEC standards can support storage security data and practices
Storage Modernization With PCIe and NVMe
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Storage Technology As higher resolutions become the norm, changes in storage are needed.
Re-Aligning Clouded Concerns
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Cloudspotters Journal The challenges and responsibilities of the cloud have changed since it was first introduced.
Learning to Spot a Cloud
By Karl Paulsen published
Cloudspotter's Journal What is the cloud, really?
At the Center of Scalability
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Storage Technology Seamless scaling is a different way to look at scalability.
Kubernetes Automates Open-Source Deployment
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Storage Technology
Cloudy—Not at the Edge
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Cloudspotters Journal Edge computing can enhance cloud bandwidth, security and reliability.
Uncovering the Long-Term Cloud Archive Equation
By Karl Paulsen last updated
Cloudspotters Journal How best to balance different components for archive management.
Understanding Layered Asset Management
By Karl Paulsen published
A hierarchy of varying value as material moves through differing workflows and applications.
Accelerating Performance
By Karl Paulsen published
Content production and distribution processes must now leverage high-bandwidth distribution at a level of quality equal to or better than high definition.
Virtualizing Storage
By Karl Paulsen published
A growing emphasis is being placed on managing storage.