OGGO/Case studies/Federal Studio

The IT of a photography studio, in Geneva.

Federal Studio is Régis Golay's architectural photography studio. Enormous files, which have to be stored, backed up, and found again ten years later. OGGO looks after that setup.

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Twenty minutes is enough to tell what is holding and what is about to give.

The case
01

What wasn't working

A studio piles up faster than it files away. Every project photographed leaves raw files, retouched versions and client deliveries — three states of the same image, often on three different drives.

Architectural photography produces files that office software has never met. The real risk is not a breakdown: it is the day you go looking for last year's image and cannot find it.

02

What we put in place

Storage moved to two Synology servers: the second is a clone of the first, ready to take over if it stops. The images no longer live on the workstations, they live in one place. The network is Ubiquiti, sized so that several workstations can pull heavy files at the same time without the last one waiting.

Storage is sized for real production, and the backup is tested — a backup you have never restored is not a backup.

03

What holds today

Thirteen years, since 2013. Server and network updates are applied between two productions — never during.

The studio works without wondering where its files go. That is the only result that counts.

The case in numbers

2013start of the relationship
13years, without a break
2servers, mirrored
1single place where the images live

A school, a studio, an office — the method doesn't change.

We look at the setup before proposing anything at all. That holds for a classroom just as much as for a design server.

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