Parallels News & Articles

This week, a number of companies have started taking the SMB cloud market seriously, with Parallels launching an aggressive campaign to corner a market that will be worth US$ 50 billion, KnowlegeTree offering Outlook access in the cloud and Motive expanding its partner channel with US Analytics. Twitter also appears to be doing better in this space, but not as well as Facebook.

In the SMB space this week, a look at research that confirms what many have suspected: The cloud space in the SMB sector has yet to be fully exploited. We also find out that Facebook is the principal online market tool for small businesses, while Openbravo offers SMBs the agile ERP.

This week we turn back to social media and a new report that shows most companies are still only dabbling with social media as a business tool, while the Parallels 2010 conference confirms what most of us suspect: the SMB cloud market is going to be huge over the next five years.

Continuing on with their Software-as-a-Service adventure thanks to a partnership with Parallels, Bitrix (news, site) has announced that it’s working on a new initiative for delivering their Intranet Portal through a SaaS deployment model.  

The Red Herring list of the most impressive worldwide 100 private tech companies features some familiar names to the CMS crowd.

Texas-based SoftLayer (news, site), a provider of on-demand virtual data center services, has just announced that it now offers Parallel’s (news, site) Plesk Panel as an option with its CloudLayer platform -- cloud package for storage, computing and content delivery.

With this new offering, SoftLayer says it has only got its customers interests at heart by offering them more control over their IT environments, but what they're also doing is cutting an even bigger slice of that great big pie in the cloud.

Another sign that SaaS is the future of content management -- or at least a big part of that future. Bitrix (news, site), provider of web content management and portal solutions, has partnered with Parallels to offer their solutions in a software-as-a-service model. Even better, that SaaS model will be "On Demand" utilizing Parallel's open Application Packaging Standard (APS™) hosting.

From the creators of the popular desktop virtualization software, Parallels, comes the beta version of hypervisor-powered virtualization solution Parallels Server , the first virtualization solution designed to run on Apple hardware.

If you thought virtualization couldn’t get any sexier, your mind is about to be blown. Last Thursday Parallels 3.0 was announced for the Mac, and the 3D gaming support it has going on is crazy-gorgeous.

In an impressive feat of kicking-software-to-the-door timing, virtualization champ Parallels unleashes an update on steroids, mere days after Vista’s release to the not-so-breathless public.

The short ‘n sweet of it is that those who’d still like a perfectly integrated Microsoft OS experience on their Macs, in tangent with OS X, need waste nary a week feeling stone-aged.

In The Virtues of Virtualization, Acronis CEO, Walter Scott, expounds on how IT professionals can meet ambitious company expectations with fewer funds, less staff and minimal hardware.

His answer lies in virtualization, which we mentioned recently in our article on Parallels. But right now we’re not talking about floating PC applications on Macs. We’re talking about something way more serious: divorce. From a server-based infrastructure to a virtual one, that is.

Virtualization is the trick of masking physical computing resources from the end user or from the client operating system. The term, once an electric buzzword in the IT marketing world, has been around so long it’s now loosely used for almost any computing work that involves an abstraction of resources.

But the topic of virtualization is seeing a revival, and from a corner at which lots of eyeballs are pointing: Apple Computer. And all because of a tiny Parallels upgrade called the Parallels Beta Build 3036 for Mac OS X.