Your Cloud. Your Stack.
Enterprise Cloud Workflow – Now Within Reach
MelroseINC’s Private Media Cloud –– we call it PMC –– provides on-demand access to high-performance infrastructure trusted by the industry’s largest players. Powerful networking, scale-out storage, and collaborative workflows are available exactly when you need them. Our consumption-based model eliminates the burden of capital expenditure: pay only for what you use, when you use it, so your business can scale technology to match real demand instead of over, or under investing upfront. The result: immediate access to industry-leading creative tools and infrastructure that’s faster, more reliable, and higher-performing — freeing you to focus on your work, not your IT overhead.
Power your AI-driven media workflows with infrastructure built to play.
Top-tier partnerships with enterprise grade AVID, Qumulo, Arista, Apple, and Signiant solutions form the backbone of our Private Media Cloud, delivering high-compute muscle for your AI Workflows. Secure, direct connections to leading cloud AI providers bypass the public internet entirely — reducing egress fees while minimizing security risk. And, for teams that need on-premises processing, Mac-based inference on local AI models is available as a service, giving you flexible, high-performance AI compute wherever your workflow requires it.
MelroseINC delivers secure, dedicated
private media cloud, colocation, and managed infrastructure for post-production houses, marketing agencies and content creators. Content is protected at every level — physically, digitally, and operationally. Housed in one of Equinix’s Los Angeles data centers, with 24/7 on-site security, biometric access controls, and continuous surveillance PMC offers a 99.999% uptime guarantee complete with redundant power, cooling, and connectivity.
Each client’s environment is fully isolated at the network level, with all traffic encrypted end-to-end and shielded by enterprise-grade managed firewall protection — so there’s no risk of exposure and nothing for your team to configure or maintain.
Access is just as tightly controlled: every login requires multi-factor authentication, permissions are scoped to each user’s role, and every access event is logged and reviewed, providing a clear, auditable record of who touched what and when.
Secure by Design.
PMC is all independently verified — the facility is audited annually according to leading ISO and SOC standards, giving you and your auditors confidence that these protections hold up to outside scrutiny, not just our word.
Our Hybrid Model provides access to top-tier equipment backed by a Tier-III data center with 99.999% uptime.
In our arsenal: Arista networking, AVID Nexis, Qumulo NAS, and Apple-silicon workstations to enable seamless creativity and data management. And guess what?
You can also bring your own equipment.
Whether you’re a post-production studio managing massive media pipelines, an ad agency juggling 10,000 client deliverables, a production company with 3 projects going and another 50 in development, or a solo creator burning the midnight oil to scale your brand, we meet you where you are.
Scale on Your Schedule.
Not Ours.
We grow with you.
Start small (or huge).
Scale smart (or fast).
Stay poised. Stay ready.
Go after what's next.
WHO ARE YOU?
SELECT YOUR BUSINESS TO DIG DEEPER
AGENCY
PRODUCTION COMPANY
CONTENT CREATOR
POST HOUSE
Client trust is earned in the
details — and lost in the delays. MelroseINC PMC gives your team the performance and compatibility to move at creative speed without the chaos of unpredictable infrastructure. Creative Directors protect the quality clients expect;
Producers get the predictability that keeps timelines intact; post-production teams get the speed and seamless compatibility to turn revisions around fast. The result: efficient, high-craft work that impresses clients without straining your team.
NOT ONE SIZE FITS ALL.
JUST YOUR SIZE. JUST FOR YOU
Your content is your business
— treat it that way. Our private media cloud keeps your archive safe, your workflow smooth, and your reputation protected, without the enterprise sales pitch.
Whether you’re a solo creator managing years of footage or an influencer delegating control to a growing team, PMC gives you practical, dependable infrastructure that just works — so you can focus on making content, not managing risk.
NOT ONE SIZE FITS ALL.
JUST YOUR SIZE. JUST FOR YOU
Getting content to market
faster, across more platforms, without cutting corners is the whole game. Our PMC platform gives your production the agility to move quickly on new formats and distribution channels while keeping your IP secure at every step — with content protection built into the infrastructure itself.
Instead of legacy systems dictating your pace, PMC scales with your slate, so your operations stay fast, safe, and ready for whatever the next production demands.
NOT ONE SIZE FITS ALL.
JUST YOUR SIZE. JUST FOR YOU
Your edit bays and
finishing suites can’t afford to wait on infrastructure. MelroseINC PMC delivers the collaborative storage and high-performance compute your post workflow depends on — built on Avid Nexis and enterprise-grade networking — so editors, colorists, and finishing artists can work in parallel without bottlenecks.
As projects and client demands grow, you scale compute and storage on demand instead of committing capital upfront, keeping turnaround fast and quality uncompromised on every deliverable.
NOT ONE SIZE FITS ALL.
JUST YOUR SIZE. JUST FOR YOU
FAQs
What is PMC?
MelroseINC’s PMC (Private Media Cloud) is a managed technology infrastructure service built specifically for media and entertainment companies, agencies, content creators and influencers. We provide enterprise-grade computing, storage, networking, and support — hosted in a world-class Los Angeles datacenter — at prices accessible to companies of any size.
Think of it as having a full IT department and a top-tier server room, without the overhead of either.
Who is PMC built for?
PMC serves media and entertainment customers of all sizes — from individuals and six-person boutique agencies to multi-hundred-person studios. Our clients include digital marketing firms, post-production houses, visual effects companies, content creators, and influencers. If your work involves large media files, collaborative workflows, or remote teams, our private media cloud was built for you.
Where is PMC located?
PMC is hosted at one of Equinix’s Los Angeles data centers — one of the world’s premier media and entertainment data centers. Equinix is the largest data center operator globally, and PMC’s home data center is purpose-built for the content creation and distribution ecosystem. Our clients access PMC from anywhere in the continental US and beyond via secure, high-speed connections.
Is it secure?
Yes — and security is the foundation of the platform, not something bolted on afterward. Protection is layered:
- Physical. Biometric entry, mantrap access, 24/7 on-site security officers, and video surveillance with 90-day retention.
- Access. Multi-factor authentication on every login, role-based least-privilege access, and full access logging and periodic review.
- Network. Every client environment is isolated from every other tenant using dedicated VLANs and VRF segmentation, protected by an enterprise-grade managed firewall and AES-256 encrypted VPN connections. For clients who require it, we also offer a Zero Trust access model.
- Data. Data stored on PMC-provided storage is encrypted at rest. If you host your own storage with us, encryption remains under your control and we’ll advise on the right approach for your workflow.
- Operations. Systems are continuously monitored, patched, and logged, backed by 24/7 security operations center monitoring and threat detection, and by regular vulnerability assessment and penetration testing.
Our controls are architected to the MPA Content Security Best Practices (v5.3.1) — the framework major studios and the Trusted Partner Network use to evaluate their partners — and we support clients through TPN Shield assessments at Blue, Silver, Gold, and Gold Star levels. Multiple PMC clients have successfully completed studio and TPN security audits with our engineering team alongside them.
What does "hybrid" mean in practice?
It means you’re never forced into a one-size-fits-all model. You might host your existing edit workstations with us, add on-demand storage for a large project, and integrate a cloud archive solution — all managed as a single unified environment. As your needs change, so does your configuration. Unlike most providers, MelroseINC can recommend purchasing equipment when it makes financial sense or renting when it doesn’t. We have no incentive to push you toward a model that doesn’t fit your needs.
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Case Study
Pantheon Media Group
They didn't just need more storage. They needed less office.
How a conversation with a post-production leader for simple archival storage turned into ditching a large-format lease for a right-sized, remote-first editing solution — and turned a fixed real-estate cost into flexible, on-demand infrastructure.
A backup plan isn't a workflow plan.
Pantheon needed a new archival solution. Under their plan, archival storage would have been solved. The workflow and overhead holding them back would not. Before MelroseINC, Pantheon was running on a cloud-based backup and storage service — solid for protecting media, but silent on everything else. It didn’t move projects between editors. It didn’t shrink the square footage they were paying for. It didn’t touch the real cost driver: a large-format office built for a fully on-site production model that no longer matched how the team actually worked.
Storage was solved. The workflow — and the overhead sitting on top of it — was not.
The MelroseINC PMC Shift.
It all started at a MelroseINC-hosted PMC fireside chat, featuring the technology partners who help us deliver remote editing workflows as a fully managed service. For Pantheon, it reframed the entire question. This wasn’t about choosing a archival storage tier. It was about leveraging our hybrid, enterprise-grade post infrastructure and on-demand services – the same tools they’d been using for years, only now, without the lease to house it themselves.
Jonathan Goldberg, SVP of Post Production & Technology, had one question after the session: how fast could MelroseINC migrate Pantheon’s post infrastructure to the PMC — fast enough to get out of a lease for office space they no longer needed?
From Square Footage to Service.
The real transformation wasn’t technical, it was structural. Pantheon stopped paying to house infrastructure and started paying to use it — enterprise-grade edit, storage, and delivery capability enabled as a service, sized to the work in front of them instead of a lease signed years earlier.
What Moved onto the PMC.
Hybrid — Lease-to-own infrastructure
Pantheon’s post infrastructure runs on MelroseINC’s Hybrid PMC model — enterprise hardware delivered as a service today, with a path to ownership, so the balance sheet reflects usage instead of a burdensome long-term real estate commitment.
Storage — Enterprise NAS & Archive Tiers
Through our PMC technology partners, Pantheon upgraded to enterprise-level NAS for active production and dedicated archive storage for completed work — both managed as part of the platform, not another line item to maintain in-house.
Transfer — No more physical drives
Fast, reliable, secure file transfer replaced the courier runs and shipped hard drives that used to move media from location to location — cutting tens of thousands in physical media logistics, and dramatically shrinking the time between a finished cut and delivery.
Security — Top-tier controls, TPN-aligned
The migration was built to meet Trusted Partner Network requirements from day one, so moving to remote-first infrastructure meant tightening security posture, not trading it away.
Value Creation. Top to Bottom.
The result touched every layer of Pantheon’s operation at once: a smaller real-estate footprint, a hybrid workflow that finally matched how the team works, and a security posture built for enterprise media clients — all running on hybrid infrastructure – much of which Pantheon owns outright, now augmented with power they can consume as a service.
Results callouts
- Office footprint — Large-format lease exited in favor of a remote-first edit operation
- Physical media logistics — Tens of thousands saved by eliminating shipped drives
- Delivery velocity — Fast, reliable transfer accelerates production and delivery
- Security posture — Enterprise controls built to meet TPN requirements
Still double-paying for your infrastructure?
In most traditional set ups, we see clients laying out large capital expenditures for tech stacks, then ALSO paying for the square footage to house them. Why not pay once? See how a Hybrid Private Media Cloud engagement could convert your studio’s fixed real-estate cost into flexible, enterprise-grade infrastructure. Bring what you have, and retail ownership. Or rent it all on-demand, rent to own your infrastructure, or any combination thereof. In short: PMC works the way you want to invest.
Ready?
What backup-only
left on the table.
- No remote editing workflow, just cold storage
- Physical drives still shipped between locations
- A large office lease sized for a pre-remote team
- No path from fixed CapEx to flexible OpEx
Tech Specs
What are the facility specifications at Equinix?
Equinix provides enterprise-grade infrastructure including:
- Power: Dual utility feeders, N+1 UPS configuration, 11 x 2,000 kW diesel standby generators (N+1 redundancy)
- Cooling: Air-cooled and water-cooled chillers with CRAC units, N+1 redundancy
- Physical Security: Mantrap entry, 24/7 on-site security officers, biometric readers, fiber vault, CCTV with 90-day retention,motion detection
- Fire Suppression: Double-interlocked pre-action dry pipe system with HSSD/VESDA detection
- Network: 10Gb network ports standard, high-availability firewall protection
- Reliability: >99.999% uptime track record globally
What is your firewall configuration standard?
Our PMC managed SonicWall Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) is configured in accordance with the MPA Content Security Best Practices (v5.3.1) and the ISO 27001 framework, with intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) and the full security suite enabled by default. Firewall rules are audited regularly. Logging is handled via a Syslog server, with continuous network monitoring and 24/7 security operations center (SOC) monitoring and threat detection. MelroseINC conducts regular vulnerability assessments and penetration testing of the PMC environment.
What switching and firewall hardware does PMC use?
MelroseINC’s PMC network infrastructure is built on enterprise-grade, fully supported hardware:
• Core Switching: Arista Networks 7050TX3 and 7060CX3 Ethernet Switches — shared infrastructure with per-client VLAN/VRF isolation
• Managed Firewall: Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
• ISP Connectivity: Zayo, Crown Castle, and Cogent (multiple redundant providers)
All hardware is current, fully supported by active vendor agreements, and not end-of-sale or end-of-life. MelroseINC’s lifecycle policy is to replace hardware when it reaches end-of-support status.
What storage platform does PMC use?
Our PMC platform uses Qumulo, an enterprise-grade NAS (Network Attached Storage) platform with a clustered filesystem architecture. Qumulo provides high-performance, scalable storage specifically optimized for large media files and collaborative workflows. The platform is current, fully supported, and under active vendor maintenance.
How is my storage kept separate from other clients?
Storage shares are provisioned on a per-client basis and access is restricted by VLAN isolation. Only devices on your designated VLAN can access your storage allocation. This logical segmentation is enforced at both the network layer and the storage platform level.
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MelroseINC’s Private Media Cloud has transformed our workflow resulting in significant cost savings while ensuring rapid, secure data delivery.
Everything from the team to the tech has been top notch.
About
For over 20 years,
MelroseINC has lived inside the media and entertainment industry — so we know, intimately, what post production demands: collaborative workflows, high-performance editing, ironclad data security, and bandwidth bandwidth bandwidth. With that knowledge we conceived and built MelroseINC’s Private Media Cloud (PMC). Engineered around those exacting standards and demands of the media and entertainment industries, but delivered in a custom, flexible, as-a-service solution that won’t break the bank. We make enterprise-grade private cloud hosting accessible on any budget, with scalable solutions built around the workflows and applications you already use — high quality, cost-effective, no compromises.
What's in it for you?
More like what’s not in it for you. With PMC we’ve seen our clients cut their power footprint. Shrink their rack space, and go from heavily managed on-premises hosted solutions to centralizing their critical data, and making it globally accessible, anytime. Run Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, and the other enterprise tools you rely on — remotely, without missing a beat. Push internet speeds up to 10Gb on demand. Scale your editing systems and storage up or down as your workload shifts — no waste, no bottlenecks. Slash your traditional operating costs, and skip long-term lease commitments entirely. And through it all, you get white-glove service from day-one integration through every day after. That’s MelroseINC PMC.
How it works
- All-Inclusive Infrastructure — Rackspace, power, AC, and infrastructure support, all rolled into one predictable monthly cost. No surprises, no separate vendors to juggle.
- Managed Service, Your Way — Choose block hours that fit your workload: 25, 50, 100, or 200 hours. Scale support up or down as you need it.
- Bring What You Have or Build What You Need — Host your existing editing software, workstations, and storage — or let us set you up with new gear, fully hosted and ready to go.
- Your Team, Your Setup — Keep working from your existing remote clients. No rip-and-replace required.
- Pay Once or Pay as You Go — Choose a one-time setup cost, or go with Workstations-on-Demand for a flexible, pay-per-use model that scales with you.
Affordable cloud solutions within reach.
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