With a successful cloud project behind it, the museum will continue to modernise its internal IT systems across its two sites in Sydney and local hosting providers.

For a "not large, but important" organisation the museum has quite a complex infrastructure including venue management software, ticketing software, education programs and digital outreach, specialist software to manage its collection, conservation software for the museum's environment and software for library, fleet and building management.

There is also a hosted Web site and social media activities. With 128 staff and number of part time people and volunteers the museum is closed for only one day every year.

The corporate LAN consists of Novell directory services and Windows 2000 servers to run the mainly Windows applications. This will be migrated to Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory to save on licensing costs and simplify management overhead.

It will also move from VMware put in 12 months ago for backups and DR to Microsoft Hyper-V.