Case Study: Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital achieves 99.99% PostgreSQL uptime with Severalnines ClusterControl

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital - Customer Case Study

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH), a leading UK healthcare provider, faced a challenge in managing its mission-critical clinical application after migrating from SQL Server to PostgreSQL. Their IT team lacked deep expertise in operating highly available PostgreSQL clusters, relying on manual processes and unreliable home-grown backup scripts. This created a high risk of downtime, which was unacceptable for patient care. RNOH needed a solution to fully automate database management to ensure maximum uptime and reliable recovery without requiring a dedicated DBA.

Severalnines addressed this challenge with its ClusterControl database automation platform. The solution enabled RNOH to deploy, manage, and monitor a highly available PostgreSQL cluster, including automated backups and recovery. With support from Severalnines, the implementation and data migration were completed within six months. The result was a guarantee of 99.99% service uptime, providing the hospital with full peace of mind, minimized risk of data loss, and significant operational cost savings.

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital