Systems management platform vendor HotLink Corp. last week unveiled integration software aimed at users of VMware and announced a $10 million venture round.
Emerging from a year of “stealth mode,” HotLink said it would begin selling HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware starting Aug. 31.
BACKGROUND: HotLink aims to ease managing mixed virtual environments
The platform is designed to allow VMware vCenter users to deploy cross-platform infrastructure spanning Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (KVM).
HotLink said in a statement that its patent-pending Transformation Engine “abstracts the underlying hypervisors and workloads from the management layer to enable mixed virtual environments to be treated as unified and native objects inside the existing VMware infrastructure. No additional management console is required.”
Lynn LeBlanc, HotLink founder and chief executive, said, “Heterogeneity is typically synonymous with complexity. We designed HotLink SuperVISOR to tackle this problem from the bottom up — abstracting the complexities of virtual infrastructure so customers have freedom to choose the right hypervisor for each business need and still leverage their VMware management investment.”
Prior to HotLink, LeBlanc was founder and CEO of FastScale Technology, which was acquired by EMC two years ago and subsequently by VMware.
HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware is priced starting at $25,000.
The company also announced it has received $10 million in venture funding led by Foundation Capital, with Leapfrog Ventures also participating.
Foundation general partner William Elmore, who will join HotLink’s board of directors, said in a statement announcing the funding, “Our firm has extensive experience in information technology and complex data center solutions, and we are extremely impressed with the robust vision and strong track record of the HotLink team. Cracking the code on the interoperability of software platforms is a game changer for the IT industry.”
