DreamWorks Animation expands Preferred Technology Provider relationship with Lenovo

DreamWorks Animation is deepening its collaboration with Lenovo, naming the company its preferred compute services, workstation, and solutions provider. This marks a milestone in a trusted partnership now strengthened by Lenovo’s solutions and services.

By bringing together devices, data center infrastructure, and services into a seamless Lenovo ecosystem, DreamWorks has the compute power to scale with the ever-growing demands of its artistic and technical teams -- an essential advantage in an increasingly dynamic landscape. At the core of this collaboration is a shared commitment to service excellence, ensuring DreamWorks remains supported through every business transformation.

Lenovo’s strategic services and solutions have already delivered a quantifiable impact to DreamWorks’ production pipelines and business infrastructure –

• A 20% performance increase was achieved using Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling, improving render speeds and enabling faster iteration cycles.

•  A 25% performance increase of animation programs running on the ThinkStation P620s compared to previous workstations, leading to faster loading times and an overall better artist experience.

• With 98% utilization in its data center and 300 million compute hours for The Wild Robot, Lenovo infrastructure scaled to meet unprecedented creative demands.

“Based on our long-standing relationship and Lenovo’s consistent delivery excellence, expanding our collaboration was a natural next step,” said Kate Swanborg, SVP of Technology Communications and Strategic Alliances, DreamWorks Animation. “This deepens our collaboration and gives DreamWorks the flexibility and operational scale we need to fuel our business ambitions and deliver world-class filmmaking.”

“This expanded relationship underscores the vital role of advanced, scalable technologies and services in powering complex creative workflows and meeting the demands of modern content production,” added Ken Wong, Executive Vice President and President, Solutions and Services Group, Lenovo. “It highlights the strategic impact of a trusted technology partnership in delivering the performance, reliability, and innovation required to push the boundaries of what’s possible in filmmaking and what’s possible in business.”

Unified Innovation: Expanding the Lenovo–DreamWorks Technology Ecosystem

From strategy to 24/7 operations, Lenovo delivers more than just high-performance hardware -- it provides a services-first ecosystem that keeps DreamWorks’ technology teams focused. Lenovo’s scalable service model covers everything from day-to-day support to critical artist compute deployment, ensuring that enterprise environments like DreamWorks have the tools, agility, and responsiveness needed at every stage of production.

·  ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series Workstations – designed to deliver the performance and responsiveness required in any setting, including modern film production, making them ideal for artists, technical directors, and other professionals.

·  ThinkSystem Servers and HPC Infrastructure – powering compute-intensive rendering and animation pipelines.

·  NEW: TruScale Infrastructure as a Service – enabling DreamWorks to scale compute resources on demand while avoiding large capital expenditures. The offering supports the full ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile portfolio and is tailored to align infrastructure capacity with production timelines.

Lenovo TruScale allows DreamWorks to retain the control and security of on-premises infrastructure while benefiting from 24/7 proactive monitoring, managed services, and expert support. As part of its services portfolio, Lenovo also supports DreamWorks’ sustainability goals -- helping retire outdated systems and transition to more energy-efficient technologies.

And Infrastructure is only part of the story. DreamWorks depends on Lenovo’s Premier Support Plus for round-the-clock help, fast fixes, and minimal downtime. In a high-pressure creative environment, responsive support and expert planning are essential to reducing complexity and helping teams meet aggressive production goals.