Integration specialist HotLink has launched new versions of its Hybrid Express and DR (disaster recovery) Express systems which are designed to rationalize the differences between VMware vCenter and Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems.

The new management systems will make administration and monitoring across a variety of IT platforms ‘dramatically simpler’ and cheaper, it claimed.

The rationale is to cut management costs for enterprises, three quarters of which have a mixture of clashing IT cultures.

According to a the Private Cloud Computing and The Future of Infrastructure report by Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman, 74% of enterprises are now trying to come to terms with a hybrid IT legacy.

Hotlink claimed its new system can use VMware’s vCenter to create an omnipotent hybrid IT management hub that spans VMware vSphere, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (KVM).

HotLink’s Hybrid Express is designed to be a user friendly plug-in to VMware vCenter for managing hybrid resources alongside VMware vSphere, whether on or off premise.

IDC research director of storage Eric Burgener said the use of hybrid clouds in enterprise computing workloads is a matter of when, not if.

“This management model is a game changer that nearly all IT environments will move to over time,” Burgener said.

HotLink founder and CEO Lynn LeBlanc said; “production and scale-out use cases are mandatory for hybrid IT, but management complexity can quickly erode the benefits.”

“With Hotlink it’s possible to create robust administration of hybrid platforms without an expensive systems integration project,” LeBlanc said.