Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 515: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of computer servers that are leased by his Department and each State agency under the aegis of his Department; and the amount of capacity on each server; the cost of maintaining these servers and the steps being taken to reduce this cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35506/11]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department does not lease computer servers. The information regarding the leasing of computer servers by each State agency under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for the agencies themselves and the information is not readily available to my Department.

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 516: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of computer servers that are owned by his Department and each State agency under his aegis; the amount of capacity on each server; the cost of maintaining these servers; the steps being taken to reduce this cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35522/11]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The number of servers that are owned by my Department is 303 - providing production, test and development environments for both internal and external services. The average windows based server memory capacity of each is 8.8 Gigabytes. The average windows based server hard disk capacity is 355.1 Gigabytes. The total SAN based storage allocated to these servers is 50.7 Terabytes.

My Department maintains critical systems on which the agri-food sector is dependent and must be available 24x7. The cost of providing maintenance support for these servers and associated storage is €115,854 per annum. The number of physical computer servers and its associated maintenance is being reduced over time through a policy of amalgamation and increased use of virtualisation technologies. The number of computer servers that are owned by each State agency under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for the agencies themselves and the information is not readily available to my Department.