Transforming global workflows through ASUS Mini PC

Founded in 1998, DNEG is one of the world's leading and award-winning visual effects and animation studios for feature film and television. With over 11,500 staff employed globally, the studio needs a workflow that enables its artists to truly work from anywhere and anytime.

Previously, DNEG had physical workstations that followed the artist around; an artist would sit in front of of a desk and their workstation would sit underneath. Will Lucas, the Head of Technical Operations at DNEG, comments on how this workflow was not fully empowering their artists’ workflows. “While that obviously had its benefits, it was quite a clunky way of working because it meant that you didn't really have much flexibility in the way that artists worked on their physical location.”

DENG replaced its physical workstations with ultracompact ASUS Mini PC PN series. With these palm-sized yet powerful computers, artists had more flexibility in their workflows. Hence, an artist in one location could access a virtual machine via the Mini PC into another location. Thanks to the ASUS Mini PC, DNEG can now create any kind of hardware configuration based on their needs and requirements within their virtualized environment.

The Outcome

ASUS Mini PCs enable DNEG to remain innovative and on the cutting edge of technology. “Having ASUS Mini PC means an artist in London can remote into a virtual machine via the PC into Vancouver, Montreal or Europe. It’s probably one of the key parts that make us to be that flexible in our virtualized environment now,” comments Will Lucas.

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