Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 312: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation 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 capacity of each server. [22491/11]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The current number of servers in operation in my Department and its Offices is 210 with an average of 4 GB memory per server. The disk capacity of each server varies depending on the application involved and the data stored by users of each application and this can change depending on business requirements. The approximate total capacity of the servers is 80 terabytes. The ICT Unit in my Department have informed me that they are in the early planning stage for the formulation of a server consolidation and virtualization strategy. Server specifications for servers owned by the agencies under the aegis of this Department are day-to-day operational matters for the agencies involved and not ones in which I have any function. However, I am referring the specific question to each of the Agencies under my remit with a request to respond to you directly.