Ever since the financial meltdown on Wall Street, corporations all around the country have been scrambling to cut costs, tighten their budget belts, and cut out inefficiencies from their various departments - and IT is no exception. Gartner painted a grim picture of the future of IT spend at its Symposium/ITxpo 2008 on October 13, telling IT execs to brace themselves for hiring freezes and layoffs. According to Peter Sondergaard, Gartner's global head of research, ...