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fr | en HOME our commitment about OPALE COMPUTER GRAPHICS master your work projects our clients Xsan MEDICAL IMAGING let us work together projects our clients OsiriX INFORMATION A unique contact for your Information System OPALE combines IT consulting and solution integration, in a sustainable company dedicated to professionnal computer graphics and medical imaging. Phone: +33(0)1 4343 9898 - Email: contact@opale.fr computer graphics Medical imaging information © opale 2006 - 2015 IT CONSULTING Service providing is our vocation Our mission is to advise and to accompany, under a watchful eye, our customers throughout the entire project management (e.g. technical statements formulation). A comprehensive monitoring A single contact coordinates the various actors (industrials, manufacturers, ...) of the project. Involvement and accuracy Our mindset, dedicated and focused, is devoted to your requirements: you can rely on our availability, responsibility and commitment in a qualitative approach. A strong expertise Image and video files are a considerable amount of data and generate huge flows, requiring a specific expertise which cannot be improvised. Our solutions and services are based on the 25-years experience of an in-house multidisciplinary expert team. OPALE, as a consulting and engineering company, is member of the CINOV federation. ABOUT OPALE Responsible IT True commitment for a socially responsible entreprise has always guided our choices and actions in the fields of innovation as well as social, environmental, economical and financial management. This "responsible" mindset is reflected by the quality of our missions and by our relationship with our partners, our staff and our clients. Company history OPALE founding members start working on DEC and Apple computers as early as 1983 • They build OPALE in 1988, determined to offer to businesses a support in information technology. From the outset, OPALE addresses professionals from medical and computer graphics milieus. It raises its skills in servers, IT management, data-intensive storage and sharing. Along these lines, OPALE participates in clinical research thanks to the accuracy of its knowledge and to its ability to manage complex projects. Appreciated for the reliability of its solutions and for its commitment, OPALE celebrated its 25th birthday in 2013. You work in video and computer graphics fields We know the working methods of your domain. We provide expertise, experience and the best IT practices possible to assist you in your day-to-day work. Be in control of your work Our job is to advise and assist our clients. We ensure integration, management, and evolution of your IT infrastructure and workstations. OPALE manages 10 Petabytes daily. Dedicate yourself to your craft Any technical failure is detrimental to your productivity. Entrust your computing infrastructure to qualified professionals who understand your specific deadlines. Stay focused on your work. Streamline your production process by enjoying the benefit of our upstream expertise on the equipments and methodologies that will optimize your business processes. Opt for coherence You have access to a single point of contact which ensure the consistency of every aspect of your computer system and its infrastructures. We are building on 25 years of experience to propose you long-lasting solutions and a provision of services that keeps its promises. Protect your work The risks - fire, flood, theft, malware - are real. Replacing the hardware is not enough to compensate for the loss or the corruption of your data. Take advantage of our know-how in backup and recovery : proven hardware solutions, operational procedures and Disaster Recovery Plans. Rely on us We pay special attention to your tools, we know your software and we customize them according to your specific business requirements. You can rely on us : advice, end-user support, change management support for software upgrades, on-site or external personalized training. For more than twenty years, Apple Professional Solutions are at the core of OPALE's Know-How. Overview Here is a glimpse of what we set up for our customers. Independent from any supplier, we freely choose and integrate the pertinent technologies that your project requires. Design and architecture agency Safe lan2lan interconnexion of four remote locations with a 1GB access to the 3D VFX CAD Server (130 Mac and PC Workstations) and to a 96-core render farm. Production server fully replicated in a private Cloud. Daily operational monitoring of comprehensive infrastructure and of individual workstations. Consultancy and technology watch. Art Gallery SAN production server incorporating an Ekta scanning workflow, color management chain, large format printing on two 60-inch plotters. Long-term archiving on LTO tapes and collaborative tool. Animation Studio Full 10GB, fully redundant, local data network. Eighty 3D Workstations, five VFX real-time workstations and one 40-node render farm. Video Lab Post-production SAN server with media asset management software. 9 FCP video-editing workstations. Automated flow ingest, encoding and delivery. Long-term archiving on LTO. Public cultural establishment Technical audit, IT infrastructure streamlining and monitoring, including 8 servers (groupware, active directory, open directory, database server, accountancy, intranet, web-based collaboration platform, remote backup) hosted partly locally and partly in a private cloud. Securization of all flows and remote access. Automated on-site and remote backup strategy. Day-to-day support of 60 users. Recommendation of professional tools. Design, planning and organisation of continuing vocational training sessions. National Museum Restoration of the computer hardware, operating system and application software of Zapping Zone, the interactive multimedia art by Chris Marker, consisting of 7 Apple II computers, color monitors and 5" and 3,5" floppy disks. Video post-production company 60TB Xsan post-production server, fully replicated, 11 FCP workstations, 5 Avid Media Composer workstations, 1 Flame workstation, 3 Smoke workstations, 4 AE workstations, 1 DaVinci Resolve workstation. Active and Open directory servers integration. Mac, Windows and Linux multi-environment. IP San and Xsan clients. 2x4GB fiber-optic network and 10GB ethernet. Our clients Our interlocutors are pleasant and attentives. Vidéo Adapt, sound & image post-production Our facility is evaluated and updated by OPALE on a bi-monthly basis, incidents are rare. BelleVille, communication agency Unlike many other service providers, OPALE brings a comprehensive solution that fits our needs as a communication agency. BelleVille, communication agency There exists in OPALE an atmosphere and a humane consideration that I very much appreciate. Atelier AER, graphic design OPALE keeps a critical and savvy eye on the various solutions that exists on the market and never gets caught by any off-the-shelf or ready-made solutions. BelleVille, communication agency A true relationship of mutual trust grew over the years and OPALE have known how to prove it timely. La Fabrique Créative, design and scenography OPALE offered us a customized solution on budget. News Box, audiovisual communication Color chain calibration and adjustment have proven to be a tremendous time saver during production. Atelier AER, graphic design Always giving sound advices. We are very satisfied with the services provided by OPALE as a whole. Les Télécréateurs, production Working with Opale is part of the very best decisions I took as manager of a design agency. Atelier AER, graphic design Your teams are always responsive to provide software and hardware maintenance, at both preventive and corrective levels. News Box, audiovisual communication I will recommend OPALE for its professionalism and responsiveness. Vidéo Adapt, sound & image post-production FOCUS Final Cut Pro X The Winning Trio OPALE and YAKYAKYAK,