Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 23 February 2017
428. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost per year for the past three years for the storage of data and-or files on cloud storage or third party servers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9408/17]
View answerRecords indicate that in the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 the cost to my Department of data and or electronic file storage on cloud or third party file servers was €3,911.40, €5,467.35 and €6,443.97 respectively. Most of the data held by my Department is currently stored on equipment owned and controlled by my Department. Data is stored on external cloud services where there are good business reasons for doing so, principally to allow easier sharing of that data with other parties. As the economic, security and governance issues associated with cloud storage evolve, my Department will continue to evaluate the relative merits of cloud and on-premises storage of data when making data storage decisions.
