We're gearing up for Silicon Valley Business Journal's 2013 Women of Influence, and here's a sneak peek at who made this year's list. On the slideshow, you will see 100 influential women shaking up Silicon Valley -- and in many cases the world. Out of our 100, 17 are founders and C-level execs.

The women spotlighted below should be seen as inspiration for all, not just women. This article is to celebrate their accomplishments and that of other women working within the field.

Douglas Brown interviews Lynn LeBlanc, CEO & Founder at HotLink Corporation. Lynn and Douglas discuss HotLink’s heterogeneous virtualization management solution. Lynn details the HotLink solution, what it is, why we should care, how it competes in the market, and much more.

After years of venture capital and start-up focus on consumer-focused tech companies, enterprise networks and the data center are back in vogue. In our latest companies to watch, we profile SDN upstarts as well as those in virtualization and converged infrastructure.

VMware sits atop the hypervisor market, but alternatives such as Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM and Xen are gaining market share. HotLink has a vCenter plugin that allows it to not only deploy resources to other hypervisors, and even Amazon’s cloud, but also migrate workloads between those resources.

What's the dominant hypervisor these days? The right answer is actually "multiple hypervisors.  And if they were easier to manage they would be even more dominant.  HotLink uses VMware vCenter as its pane of glass through which to manage these heterogeneous environments.

Management of private clouds can get complicated in heterogeneous systems. HotLink, which specializes in this, recently updated its product, HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware vCenter, including new automation capabilities along with a free edition.

HotLink and their Cross-Platform Cloud Management technology have been in the news recently with the announcement of the latest release and the release of the free version of their flagship product, Hotlink SuperVISOR for VMware vCenter.

The 2.0 version of HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware adds multi-hypervisor administration and integration hub capabilities, reducing the complexity of deploying, administering and managing heterogeneous private clouds.

It’s really amazing how it allows you to manage, using vCenter, virtual machine running in Windows Hyper-V 2012 just as if they were vSphere virtual machines.