Storage & data protection
Storage
Fast shared storage for artists and editors, backup architecture that actually restores, and a plan for where every frame lives from ingest to archive.
Storage sits underneath everything in production. Editorial needs consistent throughput to many clients at once. VFX needs high IOPS across millions of small files. AI teams need fast access to large datasets. All of them need to know that yesterday's work is safe and recoverable.
Timeline Tech designs, builds and supports production storage for film, television, VFX, editorial and AI environments. We work across on-premises NAS and high-performance shared storage platforms, cloud and hybrid storage, and the backup and disaster recovery architecture around them.
We treat storage as a standalone discipline, not an afterthought bolted onto a workstation order — because for most facilities it is the single most important piece of infrastructure they own.
What's included
Storage, end to end.
- Production storage
- Shared storage for editorial, VFX and production teams sized for real workloads.
- High-performance shared storage
- Low-latency, high-throughput platforms for VFX, finishing and AI datasets.
- NAS and storage platforms
- Vendor-agnostic design, deployment and support of on-prem storage systems.
- VFX and AI datasets
- Storage tiers built for large frame sequences, caches and model training data.
- Backup architecture and snapshots
- Snapshot policies, near-site and off-site backup designed to be tested, not assumed.
- Cloud and hybrid storage
- Cloud tiers for collaboration, archive and remote work where they add value.
- Disaster recovery
- Recovery plans with realistic objectives for what a production can afford to lose.
- Data lifecycle planning
- Where data lives at each stage, when it moves and when it can safely be retired.
How we work
Performance measured, not promised
We size and test storage against the client count and workloads it will actually serve.
Resilience by design
Redundancy, snapshots and backup planned together so a single failure is an inconvenience, not a crisis.
Protecting production data
Access controls and backup practice aligned with content-security expectations.
Tell us what you're building.
For your next production or project — a quick conversation is usually enough to work out where we can help.