HotLink Corporation, the market leader in transformation solutions for heterogeneous virtualization management, today announced it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the “Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2013” report by Gartner, Inc.

HotLink’s award-winning solutions, HotLink SuperVISOR and HotLink Hybrid Express, dramatically simplify IT management complexity for heterogeneous and hybrid computing infrastructure. The solutions are built on a game-changing transformation engine that enables native interoperability of all major hypervisors and public cloud platforms using existing management consoles such as VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. With HotLink, customers can easily deploy, manage, integrate and administer cross-platform resources, both on and off-premise, while fully leveraging existing management infrastructure and skills.

“We believe our inclusion as a Gartner Cool Vendor highlights the industry importance of next-generation management solutions for the virtual data center. As enterprises continue to grow and diversify the platforms that make up their resource pools, management complexity is the Achilles heel,” said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO and founder of HotLink. “Our team is singularly focused on enabling technologies that eliminate the difficulties of deploying and managing disparate infrastructures, whether on-premise or in the cloud.”

Cloud-based computing provides practically unlimited compute resources at a minimal incremental cost. However, interoperating with existing data center operations had been an insurmountable hurdle. Deployed in large enterprises cross-industry, HotLink’s solutions allow IT managers to target the optimal resource type for each use case, whether cloud-based or not, yet fully leverage existing management infrastructure, investments and skills. No other hybrid IT solution provides the simplicity, flexibility and seamless operation of the HotLink technology.