The ever-ambitious SolarWinds, a longtime network management fixture, is broadening its reach once again.

If the deployment rate of server virtualization continues at 2010's pace, virtual systems administrators are certainly going to have their hands full this year, many IT industry executives believe. The reason is obvious: As the size and scope of the virtual environment grows, the more complex it becomes and the more difficult to manage and optimize.

Depending on where they stand in the overall environment, network and systems management companies hear different concerns from their enterprise IT clientele. Here’s a look at how the year will shake out in a number of different areas.

Being that we’re at the start of a new year and all, I thought I’d launch the 2011 newsletter by sharing predictions from a variety of network and systems management vendor executives.

If you know how your load-balancing service calculates the ins and outs of virtual server load balancing, you can tune clusters to better meet your organization's needs.

Rackspace has bought cloud management Cloudkick

New research has revealed the security holes in virtualised environments

Magirus and SolarWinds announced enhanced monitoring and management support for virtualized data centre environments. As a result of the recently announced relationship between the two companies, Magirus resellers will now be able to build upon Magirus' vBundle Infrastructure Packages by offering their end customers access to SolarWinds' network, data center and virtualization management solutions....

Citrix has released two free tools for XenDesktop

We've been staring a simple truth in the face for a few years but generally trying to ignore it because the implications are big.  That truth: If we are to get the most out of highly virtualized, cloud-ready environments we are probably going to have to rethink the way parts of IT are organized.