Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 23 February 2017
416. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport 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 he will make a statement on the matter. [9412/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe cost to my Department for the last three years for a cloud based application are as set out in the following table. This is a feature rich management application that also contains data and is cloud based.
|
Year |
Amount |
|
2014 |
€99,740 |
|
2015 |
Nil (prepaid in 2014) |
|
2016 |
€47,453 |
My Department carefully considers all the options before placing data in any location taking various factors into consideration including amongst other things security, value for money and vendor capture.
