Any confusion as to what happened to SWsoft and Parallels, and about which name to call them (it) is over now that SWsoft, which acquired Parallels in 2004, is renaming itself Parallels.
The company shortly to be known as Parallels includes several different virtualization technologies, including the Parallels Virtuozzo Container, a container-based server virtualization technology, and software to virtualize Microsoft Windows environments on Macintosh platforms. The company also said late last year that it would move into the virtual desktop and the hypervisor-based server virtualization markets.
Serguei Beloussov, CEO of the Renton, Wash.-based vendor, said that Parallels Server, the hypervisor-based server virtualization product, will ship shortly. Just last week, the company released a beta version of the product which runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh platforms. Early 2008 will also see Parallels release a new version of its Parallels Virtuozzo Container technology. Beloussov said that version 4.0 will include better support for infrastructure support tools such as backups, server clustering and file systems. Also new will be large-scale management tools that integrate with Active Directory to manage thousands of servers.
