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If you wanted a metaphor for Thinkwell Group, it could easily be the mind-blowing rollercoaster rides they conceptualize and create. "We’ve had amazing peaks and valleys," Thinkwell Principal and COO Joe Zenas says. "Every year has been crazy, a real thrill, and you want to do it again as soon as it’s over." Dell’s Precision™ Workstations, PowerEdge™ Servers, ProSupport and virtualization solutions help Thinkwell do just that.

That sense of adventure has led Joe on a path outside a normal comfort zone. “We’ve been very entrepreneurial in how we’ve run the company, even with our growth. So we’re constantly evaluating things on reliability and value for the dollar because our business model is we scale up and down based on the project needs and having Dell as a piece of that has made it very easy,“ says Joe.

Learn how Thinkwell leads the way with help from Dell:

Application Management: Custom configurations tailored to specific needs
Systems Management: Simplify IT management
Storage Virtualization: Maximize storage resources for IT flexibility

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	Joe and Thinkwell From museums to casinos, theaters to aquariums, Thinkwell creates entertaining thrills around the world. Follow Thinkwell’s Path >

	Thinkwell and Application Management Given the wide variety of talent required, each of the 20 people Thinkwell hires in a given week may need a different Dell™ Precision workstation with a unique configuration. Be One-of-a-Kind >

	Thinkwell and Systems Management Beyond its own rapid scalability and uptime requirements, Thinkwell must always consider the uptime of technology it has designed for client locations around the world. Help Yourself >
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	Thinkwell and Storage Virtualization “We started looking at VMware for virtualization, because it allowed us to scale up our storage without expanding our server room every time we had a big project,” says Joe. Rethink Reality >
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