Pinewood Studios creates Data Centre to offer Hosting Facilities

Pinewood Studios Group, the leading provider of studio services to the worldwide film and TV industries, has built an on-site data centre to offer tailor-made hosting services.

Pinewood’s data centre provides a secure and controlled environment for companies to store their own web/mail servers and render farms, with server requirements scaled according to client’s needs. Operated by a secure swipe system, each company will be given a unique code to access their own equipment, locked within the server racks. Bandwidth and networking services are supplied by Sohonet, with dedicated internet backup, fire suppression and generators for the facility.

Comments Pinewood’s Group Director of Technology Darren Woolfson “We’ve created a high-spec data centre to offer extremely cost-effective, tailor-made hosting solutions to accommodate the entire range of clients’ requirements. As one of the world’s foremost creative hubs, the data centre adds to the wide range of innovative facilities here at Pinewood, enabling us to continue offering unrivalled levels of service to tenants, productions and off-site companies.”

Pinewood Studios Group has also introduced an effective web and email hosting service for tenants based at its 3 UK studio sites with on-site technical support. Powered by cPanel, Pinewood’s hosting service provides an intuitive interface to help website owners manage their sites.

About Pinewood Studios Group
Pinewood Studios Group is the leading provider of studio and related services to the worldwide film and television industries. Synonymous with world class British and international productions, the impressive heritage of its UK-based Pinewood, Shepperton and Teddington Studios date back to the early 20th Century and are home to some of the most successful features films and TV shows ever made. Renowned across the globe for excellence in its field, the Pinewood brand is now being exported overseas to studios in Toronto, Canada and Iskandar, Malaysia.

Comprising the best quality sound stages, a globally unique underwater filming stage, a wealth of specialist production resources, easy access to the world’s most experienced crews as well as digital TV studios, the facilities plays host to revered production crews who continue to explore and challenge the art of what is possible on the small and silver screens.

Recent film and TV productions that have used the Studios’ facilities include Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Slumdog Millionaire; Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time; Nine; Moon; Me and Orson Welles; Gullivers Travels; The Wolfman, Little Dorrit, Gladiators, Cranford, Weakest Link, My Family, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, The IT Crowd.

Visit www.pinewoodgroup.com for more info.

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