A post house rebuilt around shared storage
Media Composer and Resolve seats on one shared storage pool, with nightly offsite backup and an archive tier.
Our roots are in machine rooms, edit bays and grading suites, where a minute of downtime can cost a delivery. We bring that standard to every client, from a post house to a design studio or a busy medical practice: systems fast enough that nobody waits, secure enough to pass an audit, and simple enough that the day runs without us.
What we look after
From a five-person office to a multi-floor facility. Pick one piece or hand us the whole stack.
In the suite
Edit, grade & compositing workstations
Mac and Windows seats specced, imaged and tuned for Media Composer, Premiere, Resolve and Nuke. Shared projects, bin locking, PostgreSQL project servers, licence servers and calibrated monitoring paths that just work on Monday morning.
Avid · DaVinci Resolve · Premiere Pro · Nuke · After Effects
Shared storage & archive
NAS and SAN sized for real bitrates, not brochure numbers. Bin and project sharing, tiered nearline, offsite replication and LTO or cloud archive with a restore you've actually tested.
NEXIS · Synology · TrueNAS · Archiware P5 · LTO
Remote editing & review
Editors and colourists working from home or another city on the same media. Remote desktop with colour-accurate streams, proxy workflows, cloud sync and review links clients can open without a VPN.
Teradici / HP Anyware · Parsec · Frame.io · Blackmagic Cloud
In the machine room
Virtualisation & servers
Hypervisors that host file and application servers, render nodes, licence servers and GPU workstations. Snapshots, GPU sharing and monitoring so one failed box doesn't stop the business or a delivery.
Proxmox · VMware · Hyper-V · GPU passthrough & SR-IOV
Broadcast & playout
Ingest, playout, routing and monitoring for broadcast and live environments — SDI, IP video and the IT that sits underneath it.
SDI · SMPTE ST 2110 · NDI · SRT
On the network
High-throughput networking
10/25/100 GbE fabrics for media, segmented VLANs for production, office and guests, and Wi-Fi that holds up in a full studio.
pfSense · UniFi · Cisco · MikroTik · VLAN design
Security & content protection
Studio-grade security for pre-release content and sensitive business data alike: TPN-aligned controls, isolated networks, MFA everywhere, secrets management, filtered internet access and audit-ready reporting.
TPN · CIS benchmarks · Zero-trust access · DMARC/DKIM
Across the office
Managed IT & helpdesk
One number to call when something breaks, and monitoring that catches most problems before you notice. Patching, backups you can restore from, and a ticket system so nothing gets lost.
Monitoring · Patch management · Backup & restore · Helpdesk
Endpoint & identity management
Every Mac and PC enrolled, patched and configured from one place. Single sign-on, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace done properly, and onboarding a new starter or freelancer in minutes.
Mosyle · Addigy · Intune · Microsoft 365 · Google Workspace · Active Directory
Phones, email & web
Business phone systems with queues and office hours, email that lands in inboxes instead of spam, and websites hosted and kept secure.
UniFi Talk · SPF, DKIM & DMARC · Cloudflare · Web hosting
Private AI, without the leaks.
Everyone wants AI tools; nobody wants unreleased footage or client data ending up in someone else's cloud. We build the middle ground — models running on your own GPUs or through a gateway you control, with every request tied to a person and a project. Studios under TPN rules and ordinary offices alike.
- Self-hosted image & video pipelines. ComfyUI and node-based workflows on in-house GPU servers, reachable only from the content network.
- One gateway for every model. A single endpoint for Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and local models, with per-team budgets, logging and key rotation.
- Access tied to the work. Permissions follow your project tracker or staff directory, so people only reach the tools and data for the jobs they're on.
- Rollout and training. Account provisioning, usage policy and hands-on sessions so your team actually uses what you've paid for.
Recent work
A few of the facilities and offices we've built and run. Client names on request.
Generative AI on a TPN-assessed network
Local image generation and a model gateway, with project-based access control.
Multi-seat Resolve with a project server
Collaborative colour across several Resolve Studio seats on a dedicated database server.
Phones and network for a medical practice
Three doctors, shared reception and one platform: call queues, office-hours routing and voicemail, on the same network that runs the clinic.
How a project runs
Most clients come to us mid-project, so we work around your schedule rather than the other way round.
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Audit
We walk the site, map the network, storage and accounts, and write down what's at risk. You get a plain-English report and a priority list.
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Design
A build plan sized to your workload, headcount and security obligations, with costs before anything is ordered.
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Build
Installed and migrated out of hours — overnight, on weekends or between deliveries — and tested with real work before anyone sits down.
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Support
Monitoring, patching and a direct line to the engineer who built it. Monthly retainer or call-out, your choice.
The engineer you call.
Tecware is a Sydney systems practice led by Thomas Kiel. Before infrastructure, the work was broadcast, editing and finishing — which is why our builds are judged on whether the edit keeps playing, not on how tidy the rack looks.
Today we look after production companies, post houses and studios, as well as design firms, medical practices and growing offices — from a single edit bay to secure multi-site facilities.
Tell us about your IT needs.
A rough outline is enough: how many people, what you run, what's not working. We'll reply within one business day.