St. Barnabas Health Care System

Computer Design & Integration Awarded $5.6m Contract To Overhaul It Infrastructure for St. Barnabas Health Care System Computer Design & Integration LLC (CDI), one of the region’s fastest-growing and most successful systems integration firms, has been selected to manage a $5.6 million upgrade of St. Barnabas Health Care System’s IT infrastructure. The multi-faceted project calls for the design & implementation of a new Storage Area Network (SAN), an increase in storage capacity, a consolidation and upgrade of servers, the design and implementation of a disaster recovery plan and migration of mission critical applications into a common data center accessible to a limited number of administrators.

St. Barnabas Health Care System is a statewide system of premier health care facilities, including nine acute-care hospitals, nine nursing homes, forty ambulatory care facilities, three geriatric centers, one free-standing inpatient psychiatric facility and a statewide behavioral health network

“We are pleased to have been selected to manage a project of this magnitude for one of the state’s largest and most well-respected health care institutions,” said Anthony Ferrante, Associate Vice President of Sales for CDI. “Our extensive experiences in managing diverse, mission critical project for clients in the health care industry helped us to win this business, and we are confident that it will ultimately benefit St. Barnabas and its patients in the long-run as well.”

Designed to bolster business continuance and high availability capabilities across the St. Barnabas enterprise, the project will have immediate and lasting effects on the entire health care system. In addition to allowing St. Barnabas to run mission critical applications on a 24/7 basis, the new IT infrastructure will reduce costs, provide better support and consolidate systems into a more efficient, secure environment.

The St. Barnabas Health Care System is New Jersey’s largest integrated health care delivery system and the second largest private employer in the state. It includes ten New Jersey acute care hospitals, ten nursing homes, 40 ambulatory care centers, three geriatric centers, one psychiatric facility, a statewide behavioral health network, and comprehensive home and hospice network.

Computer Design and Integration LLC is a privately held organization recognized as a leader in provisioning, integrating and supporting mid-market and global business infrastructures and solutions since 1995. For more information on Computer Design and Integration, visit their website at www.cdillc.com.

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