· Case study
2026 · Engineering
How Halyard cut storage TCO by 61% while migrating 50 TB of medical imaging — in a single quarter.
A Fortune 1000 healthcare-SaaS provider replaced 7 racks of legacy NAS with cloud object storage, kept every HIPAA control intact, and freed $1.2M annually that went back into the product roadmap.
50 TB of imaging data, a contract renewal, and a clinical SLA you can't slip.
Halyard's medical-imaging platform served 1.7M scans/month across 240 hospital tenants. Its NAS footprint had grown to 7 racks, with an annual contract approaching $1.97M — and the renewal in 90 days included an 18% price increase the CFO had already flagged as unacceptable.
The engineering team had run two prior object-storage POCs that stalled on HIPAA review. The blocker wasn't technology — it was a 30-page audit trail nobody owned end-to-end.
A 4-stage migration with HIPAA evidence baked into every cutover.
Klypup paired Halyard with a migration squad that owned the audit trail from day one. The plan put 18% of the workload on object storage in week 3 — small enough to roll back, large enough to validate the cost model with real numbers before committing to the renewal.
Real numbers, validated by Halyard's CFO and infrastructure lead.
- 61% lower 36-month TCO — $842K → $328K, validated by finance
- $1.2M/yr returned to roadmap — funded 2 new imaging-AI hires
- 11-week cutover — vs the 9-month internal estimate
- Zero clinical downtime — dual-write kept SLA at 99.99%
- HIPAA audit passed first-pass — 247 evidence artifacts auto-generated
- 1.8× faster image retrieval — p99 down from 980ms to 540ms
Bottom line. 61% lower 36-month TCO, $1.2M/yr returned to the imaging-AI roadmap, 11-week cutover with zero clinical downtime — and a first-pass HIPAA audit. Full study reads in 6 minutes.
We had two failed POCs behind us. Klypup didn't sell us a platform — they owned the audit trail. That's what got it past Legal in 11 weeks instead of 11 months.