Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 262: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of computer servers that are leased by the Department and each State agency under the aegis of her Department; the amount of capacity on each server; the cost of maintaining these servers and the steps being taken to reduce this cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37187/11]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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My Department or the agencies under its aegis do not lease computer servers. While they are not the subject of a lease agreement, there are 30 servers provided to the Department with a total capacity of 10,110 gigabytes under an outsourced managed services agreement. The servers are spread across two sites, a live environment and a disaster recovery environment. The capacity of each server is contained in the table below.

The managed service agreement also provides for a number of other IT managed services including service management, server hosting, network management, system operations, security management, support processes, system monitoring and disaster recovery.

The total annual cost in respect of these managed services is currently €872,114.76, inclusive of VAT. The Department will review the provision of these services when the current contract comes up for renewal next year.

The following is a list of the servers and the capacity of each server:-

DR refers to disaster recovery.