HotLink jumped into the scene with a new way of managing hybrid virtualization environments. And if you have been following the company, you know they expanded their coverage from virtualization into the cloud. VMblog recently sat down for an interview with Lynn LeBlanc, the company CEO and founder, to find out more.

HotLink’s Hybrid Express product fulfills the need for a non-disruptive co-existence between an on-premise private cloud and the Amazon public cloud. This is done by integrating the Amazon EC2 account directly into VMware vCenter or in this new release, Microsoft SCVMM.

The management ecosystem has actively embraced the multi-hypervisor world, giving customers a range of choices. HotLink allows customers to manage Hyper-V, XenServer and KVM from within vCenter, migrate VMs between environments, and even use vSphere templates and snapshots across all environments.

Electronic Arts' virtual infrastructure includes hundreds of thousands of VMware and Hyper-V VMs and another 20,000 VMs in Amazon. Electronic Arts deployed HotLink, a VMware vCenter plug-in for managing public clouds and other hypervisors.

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HotLink recently added Amazon EC2 plug-in support for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.  Managed services providers now have the ability to deploy, administer and manage hybrid on- and off-premise resources using existing virtualization management infrastructure.

Going rogue and tapping into public cloud is commonplace for groups that value speed and agility over following the sanctioned and often laborious corporate process of procuring internal IT resources. Though prevalent, the ramifications of unmanaged “shadow IT” are significant for the enterprise.

Hotlink builds bridges of management for heterogeneous data center infrastructure, in so doing earning itself a reputation as the Switzerland of data center infrastructure management. HotLink’s software connects VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center with Amazon EC2.

HotLink Hybrid Express provides Amazon EC2 plug-in support for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager so IT can deploy, administer and manage hybrid on- and off-premise resources using existing virtualization management infrastructure.

More organizations are continuing to adopt multiple hypervisor platforms and cloud services, especially Amazon EC2. A notable new products in this space is HotLink Hybrid Express cloud and virtualization management product.