// field log — healthcare
Zero downtime: modernizing multi-site radiology imaging.
A radiology group running three Orange County locations, where image retrieval speed is a clinical constraint, not a convenience.
// the situation
Aging on-premise servers couldn't keep up with PACS and RIS workflows. Storage was exhausted, backups were untested, and there was no disaster recovery plan — a single hardware failure away from disrupting patient care.
// what we did
Deployed a hybrid architecture: a 10/40Gbps network backbone across all locations, a VMware private cloud hosting the performance-sensitive PACS/RIS systems with high availability, and Azure integration for disaster recovery and long-term archival — all HIPAA-compliant with encrypted data flows and MFA.
// results
> Zero unplanned downtime during migration.
> Dramatically faster image retrieval.
> First tested disaster recovery plan in the group's history.
> Centralized management across every site.