Bangalore: Free applications can always be useful to any IT administrator, who sticks onto a strict budget. Strict in the sense- administrators who are unwilling to waste money on IT tools used in big projects. The alternate - free tools that are more efficient and even better than the paid ones. Today, the internet world offers a number of free and highly useful tools for IT admins. From antivirus software to storage software, from backup utilities to compression software, the range is simply endless.

So with that here’s the list featuring 10 free tools for IT admins.

#10 FileZilla:

FileZilla is a free software that totally supports FTP (File Transfer Protocol) in cloud computing. FileZilla is also considered as the most effective FTP supporter till date. Also a cross platform FTP software, FileZilla consists of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Another notable feature of this utility is that it’s also available other platforms like Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Along with FTP, the tool also supports SFTP and FTPS. As of 18 April 2011, FileZilla Client was the 7th most popular download of all time from SourceForge.net. The FileZilla project also was featured as the project of the month in November 2003.

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