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March Entertainment - Dell Brings Power and Reliability to the Backbone of This Animation Studio

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Overview March Entertainment wanted to provide more than a hundred animators, programmers, and support staff with computers powerful enough to create one of Canada's most popular cartoon shows while maintaining reliability and quality. As a solution March Entertainment deployed dozens of Dell desktop and laptop systems outfitted for high-end graphics and powerful video editing, with the customized warranty to keep the pixels pumping. As a result a hit TV cartoon show, was produced on budget, on schedule and with no time lost to computing breakdowns making animators, producers, and most important of all - happy viewers!.

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Publisher	Dell	File Format	HTML
Date Published	January 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Desktop Systems - PCs, Laptops

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