Case Study: Francis Drilling Fluids achieves 50–75% performance boost and 200:1–300:1 capacity savings with HPE SimpliVity

Francis Drilling - Customer Case Study

Francis Drilling Fluids, a medium‑sized transportation services company, sought to implement disaster recovery and improve backup/recovery after finding their mix of multiple solutions and vendors manageable but suboptimal. They selected HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure to simplify management and consolidate their environment.

Using HPE SimpliVity OmniStack on Cisco UCS for private cloud and data center consolidation (supporting Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and Dynamics NAV), the company saw 50–75% performance gains, achieved 200:1–300:1 capacity savings, and cut new workload deployment from 1 week–1 month to as little as 1 day. They realized value within 1 week to 1 month and rated integrated data protection, inline deduplication/compression, VM‑centric vCenter management, hyperconverged appliance design, and global federated management as extremely valuable.

Francis Drilling

Steve Schaaf

Chief Information Officer