Managed IT for Burbank.
Media work breaks ordinary IT. Terabyte projects, freelancers who join for six weeks, and studio security requirements that arrive as a spreadsheet. We support the post houses, animation studios, and vendors that live with all three.
What Burbank media businesses actually ask us for.
Shared storage that sustains multiple editors on large media without stalling, with archive tiers for finished projects.
Contractors provisioned for a project with an expiry date, scoped to their production only, and removed automatically when it wraps.
Content security questionnaires from studios and distributors, answered from your actual configuration with the gaps closed first.
Moving dailies and deliverables between facilities without dropping to consumer file sharing that nobody can audit.
Finished work moved to cheaper storage but still retrievable, rather than accumulating on expensive production volumes.
Delivery dates do not move. Priority handling and escalation paths that work outside business hours.
What is specific to media production.
Data volumes break normal backup
A single project can exceed what a standard backup plan is designed for. Backup strategy has to be built around tiering, not one policy for everything.
The team changes every project
Freelancers arrive and leave constantly. Manual access management guarantees a long tail of contractors who still have logins.
Studios audit their vendors
Content security requirements are contractual. Failing a vendor assessment costs the work, and the requirements are specific about access control and logging.
Leaks are an existential risk
Unreleased content leaving a facility ends relationships. Access control and audit logging are commercial protection, not paperwork.
Frequently asked questions.
Can you support our shared storage and editing workflow?
We support the network, identity, backup, and access layer that shared storage depends on, and work alongside your storage vendor on the platform itself.
The problems we most often solve here are network throughput to the storage, access control across productions, and an archive tier so finished projects stop consuming production capacity.
How do you handle freelancers who are only here for a project?
Accounts are created with an expiry date set at provisioning and scoped to the specific production, so access ends automatically at wrap without anyone needing to remember.
This is the single most common gap we find in post facilities: a long list of contractors from previous projects who technically still have access.
A studio sent us a content security questionnaire. Can you help?
Yes. We complete the technical sections from your real configuration, and where a requirement is not currently met we tell you what it takes to close it rather than answering optimistically.
The requirements usually centre on access control, audit logging, network segmentation, and removable media policy — all things worth having regardless of who is asking.
Our backup takes too long and keeps failing. Can that be fixed?
Usually, and the cause is normally that one policy is being applied to everything. Active project media, finished archives, and business systems have very different recovery requirements and should not share a backup approach.
We separate them by tier, which typically makes backups both faster and cheaper while actually improving the recovery position on the data that matters.