Cloud Services in Durham, NC
Durham’s biotech startups, healthcare networks, and SaaS companies need cloud infrastructure that scales with innovation — without sacrificing security or compliance. Petronella Technology Group, Inc. delivers cloud migration, Azure and AWS management, HIPAA-compliant cloud architecture, and hybrid cloud solutions designed for Durham’s healthcare, life sciences, and technology sectors — backed by 30+ years of IT expertise and zero breaches among clients following our security program.
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Cloud Infrastructure That Accelerates Durham’s Innovation
Biotech labs, healthcare systems, and SaaS platforms all need cloud solutions built for their regulatory reality.
Scale Without Limits
Durham biotech companies running genomics pipelines and machine learning workloads need compute capacity that scales on demand. Clinical trials generate terabytes of data that must be stored, processed, and analyzed rapidly. Cloud infrastructure eliminates hardware procurement delays and provides elastic capacity that matches your research and development cycles.
HIPAA-Compliant by Design
Durham’s healthcare and life sciences companies cannot use generic cloud configurations. Protected health information, clinical trial data, and electronic health records require cloud architectures built from the ground up for HIPAA compliance — with encryption, access controls, audit logging, and Business Associate Agreements in place from day one.
Hybrid Cloud Flexibility
Many Durham organizations need hybrid architectures that keep sensitive workloads on-premises while leveraging cloud for compute-intensive tasks, disaster recovery, and collaboration. Our hybrid cloud solutions connect on-premises infrastructure to Azure or AWS with secure, encrypted tunnels and consistent security policies across both environments.
Reduce IT Overhead
Durham startups and growing businesses gain enterprise-grade infrastructure without capital investment in servers, storage, and data centers. Predictable monthly cloud costs replace unpredictable hardware purchases and maintenance. Your engineering team focuses on building products, not managing infrastructure.
Cloud Services Built for Durham’s Innovation Economy
Durham’s economy demands cloud infrastructure that performs at the speed of innovation while meeting some of the strictest regulatory requirements in the country. Duke Health’s network of hospitals and clinics processes millions of patient records that must be accessible in real time while maintaining HIPAA compliance. Biotech companies along the Highway 54 corridor run genomics pipelines, molecular simulations, and clinical data analytics that require massive compute capacity on demand. SaaS companies in the Durham Innovation District build products that serve enterprise customers requiring SOC 2 certification and data residency guarantees.
Petronella Technology Group, Inc. delivers cloud services specifically designed for Durham’s regulated industries. We do not simply lift-and-shift your servers into the cloud — we architect cloud environments from the ground up with security, compliance, and performance as foundational design principles. Every cloud deployment includes encryption at rest and in transit, identity and access management aligned with the principle of least privilege, network segmentation, comprehensive audit logging, and continuous security monitoring.
For Durham healthcare organizations, we build HIPAA-compliant cloud architectures on Azure or AWS with BAA coverage, healthcare-specific security controls, and integration with electronic health record platforms. For biotech companies, we design high-performance computing environments that handle genomics workloads and comply with 21 CFR Part 11 requirements for data integrity and electronic signatures. For SaaS companies, we architect multi-tenant cloud platforms with the security controls that pass SOC 2 audits and enterprise security questionnaires.
Whether you are migrating from on-premises infrastructure, optimizing an existing cloud deployment, or building a hybrid cloud environment, our cloud engineers design solutions that balance performance, cost, security, and compliance for Durham’s most demanding organizations.
Cloud Services for Durham Organizations
From migration planning to ongoing management, every engagement is tailored to your industry and compliance requirements.
Cloud Migration & Strategy
We plan and execute cloud migrations for Durham organizations moving from on-premises infrastructure to Azure, AWS, or hybrid environments. Our migration methodology includes discovery and assessment, workload classification, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, testing, and cutover. We minimize business disruption by migrating in stages with rollback plans for every phase.
For Durham healthcare organizations, migrations include HIPAA compliance validation at every stage. For biotech companies, we ensure data integrity controls and audit trails remain intact throughout the migration. For SaaS companies, we implement blue-green deployment strategies that maintain uptime for your customers during the transition.
Included: Cloud readiness assessment, workload analysis, migration planning, execution, validation testing, and post-migration optimization.
HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Architecture
Durham’s healthcare ecosystem requires cloud infrastructure that meets every HIPAA technical safeguard requirement. We architect cloud environments on Azure and AWS with Business Associate Agreements in place, AES-256 encryption for data at rest, TLS 1.3 for data in transit, role-based access controls, comprehensive audit logging, and automated compliance monitoring.
For Durham practices using Epic, Cerner, or specialty EHR platforms, we design cloud connectivity that maintains the performance, latency, and availability your clinical staff requires. For telehealth platforms, we ensure HIPAA-compliant video and data transmission. For health-tech startups, we build cloud-native architectures that are HIPAA-compliant from the first line of code.
Our HIPAA cloud deployments include documented security configurations, risk assessment updates, and audit evidence collection — so you are always prepared for OCR review.
Azure & AWS Cloud Management
Once your Durham organization is in the cloud, ongoing management determines whether you realize the benefits or suffer from configuration drift, cost overruns, and security gaps. We provide continuous cloud management including resource optimization, security configuration review, patch management, identity governance, and cost monitoring.
For Azure environments, we manage Azure Active Directory, Conditional Access Policies, Azure Sentinel, virtual networks, and Azure Kubernetes Service. For AWS environments, we manage IAM, VPC configuration, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, ECS/EKS, and S3 bucket security. Every cloud environment is continuously benchmarked against CIS controls and platform-specific security best practices.
Monthly reports detail resource utilization, cost trends, security posture, and optimization recommendations — ensuring your cloud investment delivers maximum value.
Hybrid Cloud & Multi-Cloud Solutions
Many Durham organizations need workloads distributed across on-premises infrastructure and one or more cloud providers. Biotech companies may keep proprietary compound data on-premises while running compute-intensive analysis in the cloud. Healthcare organizations may maintain EHR servers locally while using cloud for backup, disaster recovery, and collaboration.
We design hybrid and multi-cloud architectures with consistent security policies, unified identity management, encrypted site-to-site connectivity, and centralized monitoring across all environments. Data classification drives placement decisions — ensuring sensitive workloads reside where compliance requirements dictate while less sensitive workloads take advantage of cloud economics.
Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery
Cloud-based disaster recovery provides Durham organizations with enterprise-grade business continuity at a fraction of the cost of traditional DR sites. We implement cloud DR solutions that replicate critical systems to geographically separate regions, enabling rapid failover when primary systems are unavailable due to hardware failure, natural disaster, or ransomware attack.
Cloud backups follow the 3-2-1 rule with immutable (ransomware-proof) copies stored in separate cloud accounts or regions. Automated restore testing verifies backup integrity on a regular schedule. Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives are defined for every critical system and validated through annual DR testing exercises.
Cloud Security & Compliance Monitoring
Misconfigured cloud environments remain a leading cause of data breaches globally. We implement continuous security monitoring for Durham cloud deployments using cloud-native security tools (Azure Security Center, AWS Security Hub) augmented by our 24/7 SOC. Configuration drift is detected automatically, unauthorized access attempts are flagged in real time, and compliance posture is tracked against HIPAA, SOC 2, and CIS Benchmarks.
For Durham biotech companies, we monitor data access patterns to detect unauthorized research data exfiltration. For healthcare organizations, we track PHI access logs and alert on anomalous behavior. For SaaS companies, we provide the continuous monitoring evidence that SOC 2 auditors require.
How We Deliver Cloud Services for Durham
A structured approach that balances speed, security, and compliance at every phase.
Cloud Readiness Assessment
We evaluate your current infrastructure, applications, data volumes, compliance requirements, and business objectives. This assessment produces a cloud strategy document with architecture recommendations, cost projections, migration timeline, and compliance mapping for your Durham organization’s specific regulatory obligations.
Architecture Design & Security Hardening
We design your cloud environment with security and compliance built in. Network architecture, identity management, encryption configuration, logging, monitoring, and access controls are defined in Infrastructure-as-Code templates that ensure consistent, repeatable, auditable deployments. For HIPAA-covered workloads, every design decision is documented against applicable safeguard requirements.
Migration & Deployment
We execute the migration in carefully planned waves with testing gates and rollback procedures at each phase. Data migration includes integrity validation. Application migrations include performance testing. User access is transitioned with documented procedures. Cutover events are scheduled during low-impact windows with communication plans for your Durham team.
Ongoing Cloud Management & Optimization
After deployment, we provide continuous cloud management: security monitoring, cost optimization, performance tuning, patching, compliance tracking, and quarterly reviews. As your Durham organization grows, we scale cloud resources, optimize architectures, and evolve security controls to match your expanding footprint and changing regulatory requirements.
Why Durham Organizations Trust Petronella Technology Group, Inc. for Cloud
Security-First Cloud Architecture
We are a cybersecurity company that delivers cloud services — not a cloud provider that bolts on security. Every cloud deployment is designed with defense-in-depth security architecture from the foundation. Your Durham organization gets cloud infrastructure where compliance and security are default, not optional.
HIPAA & Healthcare Cloud Expertise
We have deep experience building HIPAA-compliant cloud environments for Durham healthcare organizations. From BAA management to PHI encryption to EHR integration, we understand the specific requirements that healthcare cloud deployments must meet — and the OCR audit evidence you need.
Zero Breach Track Record
Zero breaches among clients following our security program. For Durham organizations entrusting sensitive data to cloud infrastructure, that track record represents the assurance that your cloud environment is as secure as your on-premises systems were — and likely more so.
Multi-Cloud & Azure/AWS Certified
Our cloud engineers hold certifications across Azure and AWS platforms. We recommend the right cloud provider for each workload based on technical requirements, cost, compliance needs, and your existing technology investments — not vendor loyalty.
Frequently Asked Questions About Cloud Services in Durham
Can you build HIPAA-compliant cloud environments for Durham healthcare organizations?
Yes. HIPAA-compliant cloud architecture is a core specialty. We build on Azure and AWS with BAAs in place, AES-256 encryption, role-based access controls, comprehensive audit logging, and all technical safeguards documented for OCR review. We also integrate with EHR platforms used by Durham healthcare providers.
Do you support both Azure and AWS?
Yes. We design, deploy, and manage cloud environments on both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. We recommend the platform that best fits your workload requirements, existing technology stack, compliance needs, and budget. Multi-cloud and hybrid configurations are also supported.
How long does a typical cloud migration take?
Timeline depends on environment complexity. A small Durham business with a few servers and M365 can be migrated in 2-4 weeks. A healthcare organization with EHR integration and HIPAA compliance requirements typically takes 6-12 weeks. Large biotech environments with complex compute workloads may take 3-6 months. We always provide a detailed timeline during the assessment phase.
Will moving to the cloud reduce our costs?
Cloud can reduce total cost of ownership by eliminating hardware purchases, data center maintenance, and power costs. However, cloud costs require active management to avoid overspending. Our cloud assessments include detailed cost projections and ongoing cost optimization as part of our managed cloud service. We ensure your Durham organization gets maximum value from cloud investment.
Can you help Durham biotech companies with cloud for genomics and research?
Yes. We design cloud architectures for compute-intensive research workloads including genomics pipelines, molecular simulation, clinical data analytics, and machine learning. These environments include compliant data storage, 21 CFR Part 11 controls where applicable, and elastic compute that scales with your research needs.
Do you provide ongoing cloud management or just migration?
Both. We offer migration-only projects and ongoing managed cloud services. Most Durham organizations choose ongoing management because cloud environments require continuous security monitoring, cost optimization, patching, and compliance tracking. Our managed cloud service includes all of this plus quarterly reviews and strategic planning.
Can we keep some systems on-premises and move others to the cloud?
Absolutely. Hybrid cloud is one of our most common deployments for Durham organizations. We design architectures that keep sensitive workloads on-premises while leveraging cloud for compute, backup, disaster recovery, and collaboration. Encrypted site-to-site connectivity and unified security policies ensure consistent protection across both environments.
How do we get started?
Call 919-348-4912 or schedule a consultation. We begin with a cloud readiness assessment that evaluates your current environment, identifies workloads for migration, maps compliance requirements, and delivers a cloud strategy with cost projections and a phased timeline.
Ready to Move Your Durham Organization to the Cloud?
Schedule a cloud readiness assessment to evaluate your infrastructure, compliance requirements, and migration path. We help Durham healthcare providers, biotech companies, and technology startups build secure, compliant cloud environments that accelerate innovation.
Petronella Technology Group, Inc. • 919-348-4912 • Raleigh, NC 27606 • BBB Accredited Since 2003 • Founded 2002 • 2,500+ Clients