Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 440: 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 capacity of each server. [22484/11]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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My Department has seventy-nine physical computer servers, providing live, development and test environments for internal services. The number of physical servers will continue to reduce 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 33 Gigabytes and 1.2 Terabytes, depending on the age and function of the server. Currently there is a total of 14.06 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.