Spiceworks Extends Distribution and Management of Cloud Services to 1 Million IT Professionals with New “Reach” Partner Pr

Integration APIs Allow Cloud Vendors to Offer Free Service Monitoring, Management and Provisioning Capabilities via Spiceworks

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today at the GigaOm Structure conference, Spiceworks™, Inc. launched its new “Reach” partner program, which is designed to enable providers of cloud-based services to easily reach the 1 million IT pros using the Spiceworks social IT management application. The program includes integration APIs and services that allow vendors to make their cloud services manageable from directly within Spiceworks. Spiceworks users benefit by being able to manage both their cloud-based services and on-site technology through a single IT management application interface.

“Our new Reach partner program offers cloud vendors a simple and effective way to make their offerings instantly available to over 20 percent of SMB IT professionals worldwide,” said Scott Abel, co-founder and CEO of Spiceworks. “It’s a win for them and for small and medium businesses, which represent one of the fastest growing markets for cloud computing services.”

The Reach program is part of Spiceworks mission to simplify everything IT. This includes helping its worldwide community of IT professionals to more easily find new technology products and services and manage their hybrid cloud-based and on-site IT environments through a free easy-to-use management application. The partner program includes a variety of ways for cloud services vendors to differentiate their offerings and more efficiently distribute them to SMBs around the world. Early Spiceworks Reach program partners include Rackspace, HP and Symantec. The program’s three levels of participation include:

• Cloud Services Inventory and Monitoring – provides basic account and service information for cloud service offerings that ensures they can be managed and monitored by the 1 million users of Spiceworks.
• Cloud Management Plug-ins – allows cloud services vendors to deliver custom plug-ins for Spiceworks that give users additional granular management and monitoring capabilities. Over 140 Spiceworks management plug-ins are currently available for both cloud services and on-premise technology, including the Storage Advisor sponsored by EMC and the Maintenance Manager sponsored by Intel.
• Cloud Service Distribution – distributes management capabilities for cloud services to 1 million IT pros by integrating the ability to add, manage and monitor cloud services within the Spiceworks application. Integration APIs enable categories of services, such as hosted email, remote management, and security to be built into Spiceworks. Examples include Rackspace’s Cloud Email Services and LogMeIn Rescue.

“As my company adds more and more cloud services, switching between 10 different web-based portals to monitor and provision cloud resources is not an efficient approach to cloud management,” said Justin Davison, Systems Engineer, RJ Lee Group. “With Spiceworks, I can learn about new cloud services and then manage the ones I use in the same place I manage all my in-house IT assets.”

Spiceworks is the fastest growing and most widely deployed IT management application in history. The one million SMB IT professionals using Spiceworks currently support 35 million workers, manage 59 million computers and devices, and spend $175 billion annually on technology products and services. This purchasing power represents more than 10 percent of the global market for IT products and services and is increasing by more than $1.7 billion every week.

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 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™ 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 140,000 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™ 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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