Spiceworks to Lead Session on the Impact of Social Media on IT at the 360? IT Conference in London
LONDON (September 20, 2010) – This week at the 360? IT – The IT Infrastructure Event in London, Spiceworks co-founder Jay Hallberg will lead a session highlighting the impact social media is having on the workday for over 1 million IT professionals worldwide. The session, titled “The Future of IT is Social: How Spiceworks is Revolutionizing the Way IT Works,” will explore how Facebook-like collaborative functionality is replacing the sea of red, green and yellow lights found in legacy IT management tools. In addition, attendees will learn how social business applications are transforming how we work.
The 360? IT is the U.K.’s definitive IT infrastructure event and will provide an essential road map of current and emerging technologies. The event takes place at Earls Court from 22-23 of September and brings together leading IT suppliers and thousands of IT professionals. Following conference activities on the 22nd of September, Spiceworks founder Jay Hallberg will host a meet-up with Spiceworks users based in the U.K. More information can be found at http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/108900?page=1.
| What: | Session | |
| Who: | Jay Hallberg, co-founder and vice president of Marketing, Spiceworks, Inc. | |
| When: | Wednesday, 22 September, 2010 | |
| 13:00 | ||
| Where: | Earls Court 1 | |
| London |
With more than 1 million users in 194 countries, Spiceworks is the most widely deployed and fastest growing IT management application in history. The Spiceworks user community currently supports 37 million workers, manages 63 million computers and devices, and spends $192 billion annually on technology products and services.
Spiceworks is enabling ‘Social IT’ by combining network management, network monitoring and help desk software with a rapidly growing and active Facebook-like community of IT professionals. Organizations of all sizes use the free Spiceworks IT management software and integrated online community to collaborate with each other and support the management of both cloud-based and on-premise technology products and services.
More information on Spiceworks can be found at http://www.spiceworks.com. Follow Spiceworks on Twitter: http://twitter.com/spiceworks. Connect with Spiceworks on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Spiceworks.
About Spiceworks
Founded in 2006, Spiceworks(TM) develops the first free social IT management application that combines network management and help desk software with a Facebook-like online community of IT professionals to help over 1 million IT pros and 150,000 IT service providers simplify everything IT. Spiceworks makes it easy for businesses to manage IT products and services on-premise or in the cloud, collaborate to solve technology problems, and find the IT knowledge and products they need day-to-day. Through its Voice of IT(TM) market research program, the company enables direct conversations with IT professionals, conducts surveys and provides insight on important technology usage, staffing and purchasing trends by small and medium businesses worldwide. Spiceworks is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas with funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures. For more information visit http://www.spiceworks.com.
Spiceworks and Voice of IT are trademarks of Spiceworks, Inc. All other names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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