| Doing more with less: the state of today's data center Nearly every initiative data center managers pursue today has a common goal: getting more work done with fewer resources, according to Symantec's second annual "State of the Data Center" report. 2009 trends: Doing more with less We're in the midst of collecting information on your outlook for 2009, and what we've found out so far is not surprising. And even though it's not always a good idea to leak some of the information from an in-progress survey, we found the results so far to be sufficiently striking that we feel a need both to share them and to invite you to chime in. 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.
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. Free tools for the virtual world IT managers don't need a recession to appreciate free downloads of useful tools, but many vendors today are packaging scaled down applications and utilities as freeware to help customers take on virtual environments. Could endpoint virtualization solve IT management problems? As if managing complex environments wasn't difficult enough, IT executives today must do so with less staff and cash. With this in mind, Symantec polled 300 network administrators to get a better gauge on what worries them in regards to managing IT, specifically distributed endpoints, in a down economy. Outing blind spots in the virtual realm Virtual servers help data centers provide more resources on demand, but they also create a bit of a blind spot for IT managers responsible for network and application performance across the virtual environment. So Many Windows Tools…So Little Time Ron Barrett will soon review his 200th tool for his A Better Windows World blog. Help him choose which one to test. How it works: Net monitoring & management Find out how management software works, and what you need to know to buy the right tool. 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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