Mid--year the agency said it was then currently in the process of implementing VMware infrastructure across its two data centres to provide disaster recovery site services, infrastructure-as-service, and virtual machine hosting to service itself and its clients.

As part of the revamp the agency was also moving to new SANs based on a high availability active/active model, which will, according to the DTF, provide the agency and its clients with the ability to quickly establish public presence and production continuity, with Web, application, database and internet services.

In September the DTF in implementing key projects across the past year as it sought to fully modernise its revenues, tax and shared services systems by 2013.

According to its annual report for the 2009/2010 financial year, the agency would finalise a roll out of Oracle e-Business systems by mid-2012, seeing a total of 90 agencies gain access to the shared services platform.