Spiceworks Network Monitoring Software for Network Management

Spiceworks, based in our corporate HQ town of Austin, TX, is a home run category killer solution for Small and Medium businesses (SMB's).  This tool will clearly create a rumble in the IT enterprise management market since it could displace or disrupt Computer Associates, HP and IBM's plans within the SMB space.  The Spiceworks IT Desktop, written using the open-source Ruby on Rails web application framework, performs network inventory and monitoring.  The package includes an integrated helpdesk system that can be installed in 5 minutes!  The home run is that it has most of the necessary features needed to manage the IT needs of a medium sized business.  It can report on and monitor desktop systems and installed software automatically without the need to install agents on each individual machine.  It appears the system can support firm with between 20 and 250 employees.  The only limitation of Spiceworks for a  larger enterprise is that it can't be used to manage systems over WAN links.  Check out this SMB category killer today for your SMB.