Spiceworks Selected by AlwaysOn as AO Global 250 Winner
Company Recognized for Helping 400,000 Small Businesses Collaborate to Manage IT
AUSTIN, Texas (July 21, 2008) –
Spiceworks(TM), Inc. today announced that it was chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AO Global 250 Winners. Inclusion in the AO Global 250 signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities in the global technology industries. Spiceworks was selected for the award by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
Spiceworks and the AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies will be honored at the AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford taking place at Stanford University July 22-24, 2008. This two-and-a-half day executive event highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends disrupting the global technology industries, and features the most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors and journalists in keynote presentations, panel debates and private company CEO and executive showcases. Fifty of the top CEOs and executives from the AO Global 250 will present their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in a “CEO Showcase.” Jay Hallberg, co-founder and CMO of Spiceworks, will present Wednesday, July 23 at 3:15pm in McCaw Hall.
“The AO Global 250 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the global technology markets,” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. “We congratulate them for their success in introducing new tools, services and platforms that are driving the next phase of innovation and creating real value at an economically uncertain time.”
The AO Global 250 was selected from over hundreds of companies, nominated by a panel of industry experts in the online technology, media, entertainment, enterprise and greentech sectors from around the world.
Spiceworks is the industry’s first free collaborative IT management application for small and medium businesses. The more than 400,000 Spiceworks users have access to a free IT management application that allows them to automatically discover, inventory, monitor, track, report on, troubleshoot and repair the hardware and software running in a network. It also provides a built-in help desk, remote control capability, and is the first business application to embed crowdsourcing and community collaboration features directly into the workflow. For more information on Spiceworks or to download the free Spiceworks IT Desktop software, visit www.spiceworks.com.
“We’re honored to be named an AO Global 250 winner,” said Jay Hallberg, co-founder and CMO for Spiceworks, Inc. “It’s also rewarding for our network of Spiceworks IT professionals, who number more than 400,000 in over 194 countries around the world and helped make the Spiceworks application a unique and valuable resource for small businesses.”
A full list of all the AO Global 250 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/27959
About Spiceworks
Founded by network and systems management software pioneers, Spiceworks develops the first free collaborative IT management application that incorporates crowdsourcing to help over 400,000 small businesses simplify everything IT. Spiceworks makes it easy for IT pros to manage their networks, collaborate to solve technology problems, and find the best practices, products and services they need day-to-day. Spiceworks is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas with funding from Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures. For more information visit www.spiceworks.com.
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a community blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the industry in innovation by engaging its bloggers in a social network. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Stanford Summit, OnHollywood, OnMedia, GoingGreen, NordicGreen, and Venture Summit East and West) and quarterly print “blogozine”. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.
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