Central Bank in second IT outage

For the second time since outsourcing its IT infrastructure to Hewlett-Packard, the Central Bank has suffered an outage when one of its servers crashed.

In response to a parliamentary question, Finance Minister Michael Noonan said the bank suffered an outage in mid-September.

“The incident to which the deputy refers occurred on 17th September when one of the servers which had recently been migrated to the HP data centres became unavailable for a short period,” Mr Noonan said.