Unofficial Spiceworks

Community member slatronica (Steve Latronica) runs a blog called Synergy (http://synergy-blog.com/) in which is a blog about technology, product reviews and releases, social media, web design, entrepreneurs, and more.

Recently slatronica took up an opportunity to talk with Community Manager Nic Tolstoshev in an exclusive interview about the culture at the office and how it makes for a productive and positive work environment.

Its well worth a read and will give you a bit of an insight into life in the Spiceworks offices.

• Interview with Spiceworks Community Manager Nic Tolstoshev – Part 1
• Interview with Spiceworks Community Manager Nic Tolstoshev – Part 2

So recently you may have seen a stream of tweets along the lines off “Spiceworks Launches Cloud Partner Program” and wondering what its all about and when its all going to be ready?

This new partner program is designed to bring cloud service management into one place making it easier for the 1 million SpiceHeads to manage cloud services like Rackspace email. As more services have moved into the cloud more IT pro’s have found it harder to manage there wide range of networks:

“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.”

This new program was released at the GigaOm Structure conference by Scott Abel:

“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 program is designed to help Spiceworks accomplish their mission to simplify everything IT, to try and engage as many vendors as possible they have designed 3 levels of participation:

• Cloud Services Inventory and Monitoring – This is the basic level and gives account and service information to users ready to be monitored.
• Cloud Management Plug-ins – Stepping it up a level this allows vendors to have a plug-in which provides 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 – The most involved level, this allows people to add, manage and monitor cloud services within the Spiceworks application. Giving SpiceHeads near complete control of there cloud services. Some companies have already taken this up like Rackspace’s Cloud Email Services and LogMeIn Rescue.

There are a few more vendors planned to get involved in version 5.0 and we can’t wait to see who these are. As always as soon as we get some information we will share it.

Checkout the Spiceworks Press Release for more information.

SpiceRex finally got the 1,000,000 user, I wonder what will happen to him?

Stay tuned for all the news and info on what’s going to happen now, we’ve been promised some interesting stuff.

And make sure you tweet, facebook, myspace well just spread the word that Spiceworks has made it to 1 million users.

Spiceworks Update 4.7.51538 is Now Available and includes some great new features including

• Check HP Warranty Status
• Bulk Delete Helpdesk Tickets
• Additional Language Pack Translation Keys
• Antivirus Detection for Sunbelt AV
• Software inventorying support for Oracle Enterprise Linux

The previous version of 4.7 already had the Dell Warranty Status built in.

Read more on the community

The HP Warranty Early Access Build I Now Available (4.7.51425) this update includes the HP warranty checking and also a couple of new features.

• Bulk Delete Helpdesk Tickets to allow you to delete batches of helpdesk tickets without having to use the database.
• Additional Language Pack Translation Keys which enhance the translation packs to include extra stuff
• Antivirus Detection for Sunbelt AV

Checkout the HP Warranty Early Access Testing Guidelines and HP Warranty Early Access Test Plan then get your copy from HP Warranty Early Access Build I Now Available (4.7.51425)

Checkout the latest Spiceworks IT comedy video from Spiceworks, it includes the all mighty SpiceRex

http://www.spiceworks.com/tv/?cat=it-comedy&video=million

He’s still learning though…

“No your a SpiceRex… Not a SpiceHead…”

Spread Spiceworks is open again!

Yes I did think it was  going to close but recently found a project I started last year and brought it back to life.

Spread Spiceworks now provides you with PNG images of the community badge + some new cool designs.

Spread-Spiceworks has finally found a real use, it now provides PNG community badges for you to post on other websites and forums.

Its a great new way to Spread Spiceworks from UnofficialSpiceworks.com!

These images are really flexible to use and provide you with a very quick loading version of the current site badge.

You can quickly add them to all sorts of sites in which you wouldn’t have been able to add it before, including but not limited to forum signatures and blogs.

Build yours now!

I have to give a HUGE thanks to Dbeer and AdamRPL for helping with the code.

At the moment there are 3 designs but more are on the way, just need to think up some ideas… Got any PM me

Build yours now!

So we have recently seen the ability to check Dell Warranty Status direct from within Spiceworks.

This allows you to quickly see which machines are in and out of warranty as well as what ones are coming up to the end.

More information on warranty scanning.

We have heard Spiceworks are working with HP to be able to do this for HP kit as well, can’t wait to see where this goes in the future.

Help Spiceworks figure out who to work with next. Vote for which other manufacturers you’d like to see warranty information for in this SpiceList.