IT Services for Biotech & Life Sciences

🧬 Research-Grade IT

IT Services for Biotech & Life Sciences

IT for companies where the data is the science, serving Los Angeles, Orange County, and the Bay Area — protected research, compliant collaboration, and infrastructure that scales from bench to clinic.

  • Research data backed up immutably, restore-tested
  • GxP and 21 CFR Part 11 awareness in every design choice
  • CRO and partner collaboration without data sprawl
  • Lab networks segmented from office networks
  • IT that stands up to diligence — investors, partners, FDA
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Science First

The Experiment Worked. Is the Data Safe?

A biotech company’s value lives in datasets, notebooks, and submissions — assets that can’t be re-run if a drive dies or a ransomware note appears. Yet many research organizations run on IT inherited from a founder’s academic lab: one NAS, flat networks, pivotal data shared with CROs over personal accounts. Advanced Networks builds IT for life sciences the way a scientist would want it built — protected, reproducible, documented, and ready to be inspected.

We support life sciences organizations from Los Angeles — home to a fast-growing bioscience corridor — through Orange County’s medical device cluster, with our San Francisco office serving Bay Area research companies.

  • Tiered storage and immutable backup for research data
  • Compliance-aligned records: GxP, HIPAA, Part 11 awareness
  • Secure collaboration with CROs, universities, and pharma partners
  • Instrument and vendor IT coordinated with the science calendar
3-2-1
backup architecture with immutable copiesData Insurance
4x
quarterly restore tests on research dataProven, Not Assumed
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networks minimum — lab and office, segmentedBlast Radius
10x
the data growth we design storage aroundBench to Clinic
What We Deliver

Research, Protected and Compliant

Six services built around the scientific workflow.

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Research data protection
Storage architecture and immutable, versioned backup for instrument output, analysis, and notebooks — with restores rehearsed, because the assay can’t be re-run.
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Lab & instrument networks
Instruments on segmented networks with controlled bridges to the office side — vendor-locked workstations isolated instead of ignored.
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Partner & CRO collaboration
Data rooms and controlled sharing for CROs, academic collaborators, and pharma partners — auditable access instead of emailed spreadsheets and personal drives.
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Compliance-aligned records
Microsoft 365 configured for regulated life sciences work — audit trails, retention, and validation-friendly documentation aware of GxP and 21 CFR Part 11.
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Cloud for computational science
Compute and storage for bioinformatics workloads managed alongside corporate IT — capacity when the pipeline runs, costs contained when it doesn’t.
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Diligence-ready IT
Security posture, documentation, and controls that stand up to partner diligence, HIPAA obligations in clinical work, and board scrutiny.
The Patterns

How Research IT Breaks

Six risks we find in lab-grown IT environments.

01
The lone NAS
Five years of sequencing data on one box under a bench.
02
Postdoc-era IT
The environment a founder built at 10 people, still running at 60.
03
CRO sharing, improvised
Pivotal datasets moving through personal file-sharing links.
04
Flat everything
One network where a phishing click can reach an instrument.
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Compliance deferred
“We’ll add Part 11 controls after the raise” — said every raise.
06
Unmanaged instrument PCs
Aging workstations the vendor won’t update, wide open.
The Configuration

Life Sciences IT, Itemized

The standing components of a research-grade environment.

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Immutable Backup
Ransomware-proof copies
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Tiered Storage
Hot to archive
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Lab Segmentation
Instruments isolated
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Data Rooms
Partner-ready
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Audit Trails
Part 11-aware
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Bioinformatics Cloud
Burst compute
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IP Protection
Access-controlled science
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HIPAA Alignment
Clinical-stage ready
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Documentation
Inspection-friendly
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Remote Access
Secure from anywhere
Real Outcomes

Science, Safeguarded

Life sciences engagements across our markets.

01
The backup that earned its keep
A preclinical company’s shared drive was hit by ransomware on a Friday. Immutable backups restored the full research archive by Sunday night — no data lost, and a diligence story their next investor loved.
02
A data room in a week
A licensing negotiation with a pharma partner demanded auditable access to study data. We stood up a controlled data room from their existing Microsoft 365 in days — every view logged, nothing emailed.
03
Clinic-ready before the milestone
A device company approaching its first clinical work needed HIPAA-aligned systems and Part 11-aware records. We rebuilt retention, access, and audit logging ahead of schedule — and ahead of the auditors.
Frequently Asked Questions

Life Sciences IT, Answered

What founders and ops leads at research companies ask.

Do you support both Southern California and the Bay Area?
Yes — Los Angeles headquarters, an Orange County office near the device corridor, and a San Francisco office with dedicated Bay Area biotech coverage.
What does 21 CFR Part 11 mean for our documents?
Electronic records and signatures regulators will accept: audit trails, access controls, and validation documentation. We configure systems with those requirements in view before they’re mandatory.
How should we exchange data with CROs and collaborators?
Controlled data rooms with named access, expiration, and logging — built on the Microsoft platform you already own, so nothing pivotal travels through personal accounts.
Can Microsoft 365 hold regulated research data?
Configured correctly, yes for a great deal of it — with retention, audit trails, and access controls aligned to your quality system. We design which data lives there and which needs specialized systems.
What happens to data when a scientist leaves?
With the right structure, nothing — work lives in governed team spaces, not personal folders, and offboarding transfers ownership automatically. We set that up before it’s tested.
We’re ten people post-seed. Is this premature?
Ten people is the cheap time to do it right — the data you generate this year is the asset you’ll defend in diligence later. We scale scope, and price, to stage.

Go deeper: Microsoft 365 Managed Services · Microsoft 365 Security · Backup & Disaster Recovery · HIPAA Compliance · Biotech IT — San Francisco

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