What we do

  • advise you and help you make IT strategy and related business decisions

  • design your IT infrastructure on-premises and/or in cloud with IT security by the MPAA and Netflix guidelines

  • provide implementation and systems integration from the IT requirements phase to the handover to our clients' IT staff

  • support and work with clients' developers on integration of IT infrastructure with a workflow/pipeline

  • provide specifications and liaise with IT staff or/and with external IT contractors and suppliers during the design and implementation

  • provide support and training to clients' IT staff

Delivered projects

  • design and implementation of IT infrastructure systems for "greenfield" 3D animation/VFX studios and offices development

  • IT infrastructure upgrades (network, storage, configuration and software management systems...)

  • consulting on project requirements, design and delivery

Technologies

We provide on-prem and cloud based solutions using Open Source Software and proprietary software. Storage, networks, configuration management, software management, cloud based solutions, server rooms/data centres, software licensing and DCC application support.

Technologies we used in projects:

OS - Linux Red Hat/CentOS, SuSE, Ubuntu; MS Windows 10, Server

DCC and render systems - Autodesk Maya, Arnold, Shotgun; Foundry Nuke, Katana, Mari; Adobe Photoshop, After Effects; SideFX Houdini; Maxon Cinema4D, Redshift render; OTOY Octane render

Production and pipeline - AWS Thinkbox Deadline; Torque, MAUI and MOAB

Servers/compute nodes - DELL, HP, SuperMicro using Intel and AMD EPYC2 CPUs, NVidia GPU based render nodes

Cloud vendors and tools - AWS, Google Cloud Services, Azure and Oracle; Hashicorp Terraform, Packer and Vault

High performance storage systems - Pixit PixStore, DELL/EMC Isilon, Panasas, BeeGFS (former FhGFS)

Configuration, software and systems management/inventory - SaltStack, RedHat Satellite, Ansible, PDQ Deploy & Inventory, GLPI

Monitoring and logging - Nagios, OP5, SolarWinds; ELK stack

Virtualisation and high availability - KVM, VMWare, Proxmox, Xen

Remote desktop technologies - NoMachine, HP RGS, Teradici...

Networking - Cisco, FortiNet, DELL Networking...