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IT & Microsoft cloud for media & creative
High-performance remote collaboration, big-file workflows and cost control for media and creative teams.
Media & Creative
Creative teams live in enormous files, immovable deadlines and a rotating cast of freelancers on their own kit, a combination that punishes slow, insecure or inflexible IT harder than almost any other sector.
Media, production and creative businesses run on workflows that ordinary business IT was never designed for. Projects mean very large video, image and design files that have to move between editors, designers and reviewers without grinding to a halt, and the value of that work is intellectual property, unreleased content, client campaigns and footage under embargo, that leaking early is a genuine commercial and reputational hit. The workforce flexes constantly: freelancers and contractors come in for a project and leave, very often working on their own laptops (BYOD), which is convenient but a security headache if access isn't controlled and cleanly removed at the end. Bigger clients and broadcasters increasingly attach content-security and access requirements to the work. And because the workload is lumpy, nobody wants to pay for performance capacity and licences that sit idle between projects. The need is real performance and easy collaboration, with content protected and cost that flexes with the project pipeline.
What we do for media & creative
Questions we hear a lot
Can cloud desktops handle demanding creative workloads?
Yes. Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop can be sized for performance-heavy work and reached from anywhere, so remote and freelance contributors get a fast, consistent desktop without shipping content to unmanaged devices.
How do you handle freelancers coming and going, often on their own laptops?
With well-governed identity and access. We onboard a contributor quickly with exactly the access their project needs and nothing more, and when the project ends we offboard cleanly and completely, so access is fully revoked rather than quietly lingering. Where they're using their own laptop, a cloud desktop or controlled access means they can work without unreleased content ever being copied onto an unmanaged device.
How do you protect unreleased content and client IP?
By keeping the valuable assets centralised and controlling how they can be reached and shared: access scoped to the specific project, external sharing locked down with expiring links, and content kept off personal devices via cloud desktops. That way footage under embargo or an unreleased campaign stays inside a controlled boundary, which also helps you meet the content-security requirements bigger clients and broadcasters now attach to work.
Can you stop us paying for idle capacity and licences between projects?
Yes, this is one of the biggest wins in creative IT. Because cloud desktops and Azure capacity can scale up for an intense project and back down again afterwards, and because we right-size licences to who's actually working, you pay for performance when you need it rather than carrying it as fixed overhead through the quiet periods between jobs.
Ready to talk about your media & creative IT?
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