Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 563: To ask the Minister for Defence 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. [22486/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The number and capacity of computer servers in my Department and the Defence Forces is spread over a number of mainstream applications, including Local and Wide Area Networks, business, administrative and financial systems, web hosting, mission-critical support systems and a wide range of local and specialist applications. The capacity varies according to need. There is also a wide geographical spread, given the nature and scope of the Defence organisation. The following is a summary of the position:

Department of Defence, including integrated civil/military modules:

A total of 97 Servers; the storage capacity varies from 20GB(gigabyte) to 3.6TB (terabyte; 1 TB=1000GB) per server. There are two servers leased by the Department, both of which have a capacity of 50GB.

Defence Forces – military only applications

A total of 164 servers. The storage capacity varies from 33.8GB to 750GB per server. There is one (1) server leased by the Defence Forces with a capacity of 4GB.

Ombudsman for the Defence Forces

A total of 2 servers each of which has a capacity of 150GB.