They recommend ripping and replacing any older technology and manual procedures that drain help desk resources, waste valuable storage space and cost ongoing licensing fees. For many of these network dinosaurs, there are viable replacements that allow you to streamline management and support, consolidate resources and free up expensive real estate. Here are a few of their recommendations.

What should go: Filing cabinets

Replace them with: Document scanning

"I would encourage businesses to rid themselves of filing cabinets," says Rusty Bruns, CIO at Charleston Southern University in South Carolina. Bruns has been on a mission for the past three years to rid his school of the 250-pound behemoths. He touts the many benefits of document scanning as a business-boosting replacement to sprawling paper storage.

"First is the space savings. One department has created two offices by eliminating nearly 200 feet of paper and the filing cabinets that littered their spaces," he says. Second, he says productivity immediately goes up when users are able to work with digital versions of documents. "Need a receipt and processed check from last year? A few keystrokes and the documents are ready for viewing and printing." Bruns says before document scanning, he would have to send an IT staffer off to another building to search through boxes for a paper trail.