| DIY tips for IT pros: How to cut costs and get more from your gear With tech budgets shrinking, network professionals are spending less time planning new purchases and more time trying to cut costs and squeeze more value out of existing IT resources. IT budget crisis? Invest in free tools IT managers don't need the recession as an excuse to use freeware and open source applications, but the current economic climate shines a spotlight on just how much free tools can help slash costs and sustain IT services. 5 best router and switch features you never use It's been said that Microsoft Word users only exploit 10% of the software's capabilities. The same might be true of those managing enterprise LAN switches and routers, a habit that might be costing organizations in unnecessary purchases and manpower at a time when every penny counts. Forrester lays out the steps before business service management A few years back I wrote about an intriguing new approach to IT management dubbed business service management - a concept which promised to equip IT managers with the knowledge and tools to manage infrastructure and applications to align with business priorities. IT spending drop-off worse than after dot.com bust, Gartner reports Global IT spending is expected to decline nearly 4% in 2009 over the previous year as industry watchers confirm the current recession will see more losses than the dot-com bust in 2001, Gartner reports. Freeware check: Fing fling Steve Blass tries out Fing for LAN discovery and scanning. April giveaways galore
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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