Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 403: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of computer servers that are owned or leased by her Department and each State agency under the aegis of her Department; and the amount of capacity on each server. [46715/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The current number of servers in use by my Department and its Agencies is 30 VMS Servers with an average of 4 GB of memory per server and 351 Windows Servers with an average of 2.5 GB of memory per server. The capacity of each server is dependent on the nature of the application involved and the particular ICT service being provided. Most servers are connected to a Storage Area Network and the amount of disk capacity allocated varies according to the function assigned to the server at any given time.

A migration programme is currently underway to move all remaining Open VMS applications to the Windows platform and the implementation of consolidation and virtualisation initiatives has commenced to reduce the physical number of servers deployed.