Cisco almost didn't make the cut. NightHawk Radiology Services was ready to hand its data centre consolidation project to another vendor until a facility leasing issue delayed its decision.Cisco's UCS is 1 year oldThat gave Cisco an opportunity to pitch its Unified Computing System (UCS) proposal to the lab, which provides radiology services to 1,600 healthcare sites – 26 per cent of all hospitals in the United States. NightHawk conducts 3 million studies per year with an average turnaround time of less than 20 minutes per study."Our project did not include UCS at the outset," said Ken Brande, vice president, information technology at NightHawk. "A facility lease issue delayed the project and in that delay period Cisco presented UCS."