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Parallels releases its Hypervisor -- on the Mac: Today, virtualization vendor Parallels released the first version of its Server hypervisor for x86 hardware. The surprising thing about it is that it chose to go to release with its Mac version first. Parallels first came to market with its desktop-based virtualization products...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hypervisor, Parallels Inc., Parallels Server, VM, Virtuozzo Container, Windows Version, Virtualization, Linux, Desktops, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-06-17
SWsoft Renames Itself "Parallels": SWsoft* has just issued an announcement that it has changed its name to Parallels. It is not at all uncommon for a company having a successful product, such as Parallels, a virtual machine software product, to take on the name of that product in the hopes of building stronger awareness...; Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Software, Parallels Inc., Tools & Techniques, Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Management, SWsoft*, SWsoft/Parallels; Blog posts 2007-12-13
IDC Report - SWsoft: Making Operating System Virtualization an Option: Server virtualization has become increasingly popular in the datacenter. As the virtualization phenomenon expands, organizations are discovering new ways to apply the technology -- and are faced with new challenges. SWsoft is aiming to address these challenges through its Virtuozzo product and its set of management tools. ...; Tags: Parallels Virtuozzo, Operating System, OS Virtualization, International Data Corp., Parallels Inc., Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2007-10-01
SWsoft Virtuozzo's Version 4 beta: SWsoft Virtuozzo's Version 4 betadriversI do not agree that SWsoft can actually be compared to VM Ware for example. The type of partitioning SW soft has one general architechtual problem many virtual machines are residing on general purpose OS that has not being designed to optimize the performance of many...; Tags: Virtuozzo, Parallels Inc., virtual machine, virtualization; Discussion threads 2007-09-12
SWsoft Virtuozzo's Version 4 beta: SWsoft is a company that I've been tracking for quite some time. They have a strong presense in the hosting market and a growing presence in large organizations. They offer operating system virtualization/partitioning, desktop virtualization, management for those environments and an increasing number of other things offering a high performance,...; Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Parallels Inc., Virtualization, Virtuozzo, Beta; Blog posts 2007-09-12

OS-Virtualisation Review - Butler Group Report: This Technology Audit from the widely respected Butler Group gives an overview of the OS-level server virtualisation solution "Virtuozzo", analysing how and why it differs from hardware virtualisation and detailing the benefits arising from this approach.; Tags: Butler Group, Parallels Inc., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Servers, Storage; White papers 2007-07-23
SWsoft - partitioned operating systems are better for hosters than virtual machines. Are they better for you?: I had a chance to speak with Douglas Johnson, Director of Marketing for the Hosting market for SWsoft about the company's approach to partitioned operating systems, what the company calls "Operating System Virtualization." Thanks for taking so much time discussing SWsoft with me, Doug! During the discussion, Doug spent some...; Tags: virtual machine software, virtual processing software, virtualization, Parallels Inc., operating system, software, virtual machine, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2007-06-18
Advanced Virtualization and Workload Management on Itanium 2-Based Servers: Virtualization and workload management are essential technologies for maximizing scalability, availability and value on high-end computing systems, and Itanium 2-based servers offer many options. One is SWsoft Virtuozzo, a proven, software-based virtualization solution for consolidating Linux and Windows applications. It provides granular control of workloads, along with exceptional performance and...; Tags: Intel Itanium, Intel Itanium 2, Server, Parallels Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Processors, Hardware, Storage, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2007-06-12
Virtualising Citrix: Citrix Presentation Server - an application found throughout the enterprise - benefits hugely from virtualisation. Most enterprises have instances of Citrix Presentation Server running all over their organisation. Its advantages are that organisations can centralise applications and data in secure data centres, reduce the costs of management...; Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Parallels Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2007-05-16
SWsoft Once and Done Partitioning Software: An announcement from SWsoft just came to my attention. The company is offering a very simple way for small or medium sized organizations to deploy operating system partitioning or virtualization. It appears that the good folks over at SWsoft have thought long and hard about this and have come up...; Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Managing virtualized environments, virtual machine software, virtual processing software, Virtuozzo, Parallels Inc., operating system, software; Blog posts 2007-04-24
SWsoft adds cheaper intro to virtualization: SWsoft adds cheaper intro to virtualizationNeeds fewer licenses?"Windows into several somewhat independent containers"Does this mean that several customer can share the same OS license and maybe other programs?; Tags: Parallels Inc., virtualization; Discussion threads 2007-04-23
Analysis of Server Consolidation in the Data Center: VMware Vs. Virtuozzo: The reduction of the physical number of servers in a modern-day IT organization, otherwise known as "server consolidation," is of utmost importance to IT managers, who are forced to look for ways to reduce the time and money associated with maintaining their hardware and software. The apparent leader in this...; Tags: Parallels Virtuozzo, Data Center, VMware Inc., Analysis, Parallels Inc., Server Consolidation, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2007-04-01
SWsoft in virtualization pact with Novell: SWsoft in virtualization pact with NovellNovell covers the virtualization basesNovell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 will be supported on SWsoft's virtualization. This is good news. Add that to SLES support of Xen and VMware support for SLES and whatever comes out of the Microsoft - Novell technical cooperation...; Tags: SLES, Novell Inc., virtualization, Parallels Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-03-16
An Introduction to OS Virtualisation: Virtualisation is one of the most important developments in IT infrastructure and is paving the way for significant savings, from reduced power and hardware expenditure to freeing up valuable management resources. This White Paper provides an overview into OS-Virtualisation, an increasingly popular solution but one often neglected in virtualisation considerations...; Tags: Operating System, Parallels Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2007-03-13
Plesk for Windows 8.1 (Windows): Plesk is a comprehensive control panel solution used by leading hosting providers worldwide for shared, virtual, and dedicated hosting. The control panel is designed to simplify the management and administration of Web sites. Plesk control panel automates a large number of tasks that allow service providers to reduce operating costs...; Tags: Control Panel, Microsoft Windows, Parallels Inc., Plesk, Plesk Control Panel; Software downloads 2007-03-08
Virtual Appliances: Improve Manageability & Automate Provisioning: Virtual appliances have recently been gaining notoriety with IT organizations. These pre-packaged ready to deploy instances of an application created in a virtual machine or environment can provide significant management savings. While they can be a powerful IT tool, not all virtual appliances are created equally. To...; Tags: Appliance, Provisioning, Virtual Machine, Parallels Inc., Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware; White papers 2007-01-01
An Introduction to OS Server Virtualization and a New Approach to Server Consolidation: Virtualization and automation technology is a major advance in IT infrastructure management. By leveraging the capability to abstract software and data from hardware and treat hardware as a pool of resources, virtualization and automation technology: Reduces the complexity and cost of IT infrastructures Provides users with...; Tags: Operating System, Server Consolidation, Server, Parallels Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Roi/Tco, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting; White papers 2006-07-01
Virtualizing High Network I/O Environments: A virtual computing infrastructure allows you to improve the utilization of IT resources, heighten the availability of your mission-critical applications, and reduce your total cost of ownership TCO. But successfully consolidating server workloads in a virtualized environment requires that your server subsystems (processor, memory, disk, and I/O) be capable of...; Tags: Network, Parallels Inc., Computing Infrastructure, Roi/Tco, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Servers, Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware; White papers 2006-03-01
Will Vista's DRM/TPM integration foil virtual machines?: In response to one of my earlier blogs regarding my usage of VMware's VMware Workstation 5 on my Acer Ferrari Vista64 testbed system, ZDNet reader "Otto Delete" asks a great question: I'd be interested in knowing if the final version of Vista will even install on a virtual machine. Running...; Tags: virtual machine, digital-rights management, Trusted Platform Module, hardware, Microsoft Windows Vista, Parallels Inc., VMware Inc.; Blog posts 2005-09-09
SWSoft Virtual Network Adapter 1.0.0.0 (Windows): SWSoft Virtual Network Adapter; Tags: Network Adapter, Network, Microsoft Windows, Parallels Inc., Networking; Software downloads 2004-01-01