French Petit Forestier, in Refrigerated Vehicle and Container Rental, Deployed Rubrik

Headquartered in Villepinte, France, Petit Forestier SAS is an European refrigerated vehicle and container rental, providing key products for businesses whose success depends on controlled temperatures of their products and maintaining the continuity of the cold chain.

The company has a portfolio of over 15,000 customers in diverse business sectors and more than 3,500 employees. With a network of 237 sites worldwide, Petit Forestier maintains an expansive fleet of more than 49,000 vehicles to serve its customers.

Guillaume Laurency, CIO, in charge of Petit Forestier’s digital transformation strategy, an integral piece of the company’s corporate vision, said: “As a family-owned company, we care deeply about our employees. We want to ensure they have a world-class experience by equipping them with modern IT solutions that will last for the next decade. We need infrastructure that will scale to support our company’s growth and transition to the cloud.“

Legacy Solution Not Built For Modern IT and Nutanix Environment
Prior to deploying Rubrik, Inc., Petit Forestier was frustrated with their previous backup configuration, a combination of a legacy solution and archival to tape.

“Our setup at the time had several issues and one of our largest pain points was backup performance. It often took 8 hours or more to complete backups. On top of that, it could take more than an hour to recover data,” said Johan Barre, project manager, infrastructure.

Barre and his team began looking for a more reliable, stable and efficient solution that also fit into the company’s broader digital transformation strategy. Petit Forestier had transitioned its virtualized environment to Nutanix and knew their legacy backup solution would be unable to fully protect and manage it.

The company liked Rubrik’s hypervisor-agnostic platform because it was a solution that provided a native and easy integration with Nutanix AHV.

After a two week onsite proof-of-concept, Petit Forestier realized Rubrik was the right cloud data management solution to meet their IT objectives.

“One of the biggest deciding factors was the simplicity of the solution. It only took an hour to train our team during the POC,” said Barre. “We were also impressed with Rubrik’s world-class support team. They were available 24/7 and provided us with frequent updates.“

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