There’s virtualization, and then there’s Ravello Systems Inc.’s take on virtualization. Its founders have built upon their experience developing KVM, the native hypervisor of Linux, to add an entirely new tier to the application stack that organizations can now leverage to extend their on-premise applications to the public cloud in a matter of minutes.

That’s the purpose of InfinityDC, the latest incarnation of its nested virtualization technology, which allows organizations to put their virtual machines into a platform-agnostic capsule that can be seamlessly moved to Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. Such migrations otherwise require making major changes to the workload that are often too great to be worthwhile.

Ravello’s original implementation of its technology was geared towards test and development use cases wherein the cost of moving an application to the cloud exceeds the economies gained from saving on-premise resources. The new service extends the usefulness of the meta-hypervisor to any virtualized workload running under VMware Inc.’s popular vSphere management platform.

Organizations can leverage InfinityDC to spin up new instances in Amazon or Google’s cloud whenever demand exceeds capacity of their on-premise environment and consume the external resources on-demand. Ravello automates most of the logistics involved in the process to provide operators with the same level of management flexability they enjoy behind the firewall.

That removes the main barrier to the hybrid cloud model, enabling the majority of VMware customers that can’t rearchitect their on-premise applications to stretch beyond the data center reap the full benefits of on-demand infrastructure. In a strange way, that positions Ravello against the virtualization giant, which has been trying to exploit the competition’s lack of interoperability with in-house installations of its software to promote its fledgling cloud platform.

At the end of the day, however, VMware customers stand only to gain from the technology. InfinityDC is available immediately starting at $0.14 per hour.

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