Does your company have a small IT staff? Don’t let them feel alone – harness the power of Spiceworks™, an online IT community with a multitude of free resources, support, and tools.

Founded in 2006, Spiceworks is the world’s largest and fastest growing social business network for IT. By combining free IT management software with a Facebook-like community, Spiceworks helps over 1.8 million IT professionals to discover, buy and manage $300 billion worth of technology products and services each year.

The Spiceworks community is a force to be reckoned with! They call themselves SpiceHeads…wear Spiceworks gear proudly, and hail a fierce yet friendly orange T-Rex (affectionately named “SpiceRex”) as their mascot.

You can interact with other Spiceworks users and communicate with other IT pros to share tips, product & vendor recommendations. Spiceworks provides whitepapers, webinars, and free trials along with readily accessible help, training and support resources that allow you to get the most out of IT!

Spiceworks also allows you to keep track of the latest news, stats, data and trends in IT and bundles network monitoring, helpdesk, UPS power management, RFQ, PC inventory tools, mobile apps, a blog and an online community, all for free.

This article on Disaster Recovery, Ensure your DR Plan is ready for a Zombie Apocalypse, by Justin Davison, is just one example of the wealth of information you’ll find on this site.

Spiceworks has teamed up with Eaton Corporation to offer the industry’s first free power management software features that allows its small-to-medium business users to remotely monitor and manage uninterruptible power systems (UPSs) for free through Spiceworks.