Central Bank’s new IT system crashes

The Central Bank’s new multi-million euro outsourced computer system has already crashed following a power outage at Hewlett Packard which has been hired to handle the bank’s IT systems.

The outage lasted for 15 minutes following a power cut at Hewlett Packard’s Santry facility where the servers for the Central Bank’s systems are located.

In response to a question from Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty, the Minister for Finance Micheal Noonan confirmed that the system had been cut off, but he said that the impact had been minimal.