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There are currently 16 major application systems using the facilities of the site by 11 Government departments or branches.
The operation of the site has been designed in such a way that a minimal number of operation staff is required to handle the daily activities. Through the communication devices, some of the operational related work has been redirected to the first Bureau, where the work can be handled or shared by other operation staff.
Mr Lau said operation of the second Bureau was smooth, but there had been some teething problems.
"I can assure our client departments that every effort will be made to ensure the delivery service of our Bureau Services. I am pleased to say that both the suppliers of our equipment and our staff are dedicated to achieving this goal," he said.
For those critical application systems, backup facilities are available in the Disaster Recovery Bureau.
Mr Lau said the Bureau will have to, in the event of a disaster, provide adequate resources to operate all the critical applications on the Production Bureau affected.
"Failure at one site would not affect the operation of the other site," he said,
The Second Production Bureau, officially opened today by the Secretary for the Treasury, Mr KC Kwong, is equipped with an IBM model 9121-621 central processor. The processing power is 58 Million Instruction Per Second and the total disk storage is 268 Giga bytes.
End/Monday, June 5, 1995
Subsidy scheme deadline extended
Kindergarten operators who have missed the deadline to join the newly introduced kindergarten subsidy scheme are invited to submit their application now.
The closing date for submission has now been extended to June 16 (Friday).