The folks over at the Sand Hill Group are having their Enterprise 2007 conference this week at Pebble Beach. It’s the 10th year for this conference, which is designed for top level IT executives in enterprise software and technology. Spiceworks has a simple, downloadable IT infrastructure tool that is free of charge. You can download it and try it out for yourself on their website.

Austin-based Spiceworks.com was one of five companies named as the "Next Big Thing" along with Cast Iron Systems, Ketera, Seriousity, and Vocera. Which are probably names you have never heard of, but companies given this honor have been acquired for $2.5B, and two have filed for IPO’s.

Spiceworks was founded by a group of Motive veterans, and took in $5M in Series A funding from Austin Ventures. John Thornton (Motive investor) and Mike Maples Jr. (Motive employee) serve on the board.

There are a handful of Austin companies whose success is defined by eyeballs. It looks like Spiceworks had more reach than even the Slacker music service for a bit in July. iTaggit also had a significant blip in late June, perhaps with their announcement of new features.

Here’s a report from Alexa on their relative reach.

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