Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 550: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of computer servers that are owned or leased by his Department and each State agency under the aegis of his Department; and the amount of capacity on each server. [46705/08]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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My Department has ninety-six physical computer servers, providing live, development and test environments for internal services. The number of physical servers will reduce over the first half of 2009 as virtual server technologies are used to provide multiple services from a single physical server.

The amount of storage on each of these servers varies between 36 Gigabytes and 12 Terabytes, depending on the age and function of the server. Currently there is a total of 55 Terabytes of storage available to these servers.

The number of servers used by the agencies under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for which I have no responsibility.