Spiceworks to Present Top Small Business IT Best Practices at Interop New York 2008
IT Best Practices Crowdsourced by the Spiceworks Community to Be Showcased at bMighty.com SMB Theater & Pavilion
AUSTIN, Texas (September 10, 2008) –
Spiceworks(TM), Inc. today announced that company employees, including Director of Product Management, Tabrez Syed, and IT Administrator, Kris Bushover, will present at next week’s Interop New York Conference taking place at the Javits Center September 15th-19th. The presentations will be part of the bMighty.com SMB Theater & Pavilion, which will provide a forum for small businesses to learn about new innovations in the area of networking and IT management. They will showcase the top IT best practices developed and voted on by the community of 400,000 users of the Spiceworks – a free collaborative IT management application and community designed for small businesses.
“The rapid growth of the Spiceworks user base and community is transforming the very nature of small business IT,” said Scott Abel, co-founder and CEO of Spiceworks. “Spiceworks is allowing small business IT professionals to connect and collaborate to solve problems in ways never possible before. During our interactive session, we’ll showcase the power of this community crowdsourcing for IT with real-world examples.”
Spiceworks will present community crowdsourced IT best practices in two sessions taking place at the bMighty.com SMB Theater & Pavilion (see: http://www.interop.com/newyork/2008/bmighty/). They include:
* September 17th 12:30-12:45pm, 1:30-1:45pm, 3:30-3:45pm and September 18th, 11:30am-11:45am
“The Free Spiceworks IT Desktop: Management Tools & Best Practices for SMBs.” This session will highlight how IT professionals in small business can effectively use the free Spiceworks IT Desktop and Community to better manage their networks.
* September 17th from 5:00-6:00pm
“Running a Sound IT Shop: Best Practices from the Spiceworks IT Network”. This session will highlight how IT professionals can set up a network, and messaging services, keep an IT shop running smoothly, and effectively support users.
All current Spiceworks users are eligible to receive a free Interop Expo New York Pass (a $100 value) and 20 percent off a conference pass by registering using priority code CMKBNN36. Users are also invited to a happy hour discussion on IT best practices in bMighty.com’s SMB Theater & Pavilion. More information on the sessions is available at http://www.interop.com/newyork/2008/bmighty/.
Spiceworks develops the Spiceworks IT Desktop – a free IT management application designed for small and medium organizations with up to 250 employees. More than 400,000 small business IT professionals worldwide use the Spiceworks IT Desktop to automatically inventory, monitor, troubleshoot, report on and run a help desk for their IT networks. It is the first business application to embed crowdsourcing and community collaboration features directly into an IT professional’s daily workflow. The Spiceworks application is supported by displaying relevant, non-intrusive ads on topics that are useful to IT professionals.
The latest version of the Spiceworks IT Desktop 3.0, which includes new crowdsourcing features, is currently available for download for free at www.spiceworks.com.
About Interop®
Interop® drives the adoption of technology, providing knowledge and insight to help IT and corporate decision-makers achieve business success. Part of TechWeb’s family of global brands, Interop is the leading business technology event series. Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world demonstrations and live technology implementations in its unique InteropNet and InteropLabs programs, Interop provides the forum for the most powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer. For more information about these events visit www.interop.com.
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.
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