Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 549: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality 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. [22493/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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My Department's IT Division provides a centralised IT Shared Service to approximately 2,100 direct customers in 23 agencies in 27 national and international locations using 220 servers. The capacity of individual servers varies widely depending on the role and function of that server. In general the servers behind the Shared Service would have a cumulative capacity of between 30 and 60 terabytes depending on configuration and deployment.

In addition to the IT Shared Service two areas of my Department maintain a separate IT infrastructure. Financial Shared Services in Killarney - which obtains its own desktop services from the Shared Service - operates a payroll and payments system using 32 servers with a capacity of 16 terabytes. The Irish Prison Service has 175 servers with a cumulative capacity of 21 terabytes.

My Department does not lease any IT equipment.

The provision of IT services for the offices and agencies of my Department currently not availing of the IT Shared Service is a matter for management in those offices and agencies.