Parallels News & Articles

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.