Parallels – Wake Up and Enter Cloud Hosting
On February 22-24, Parallels, the largest hosting software vendor, at its annual summit in Miami , presented the first bare-metal hypervisor for Xserve Mac OS X, a solution soon embraced by GoDaddy to launch a new VPS based on Mac OS X.
I was wondering in a Hypervisor market where the leadership is VMware (ESX4 vSphere) followed by XenServer and Hyper-V, at a certain distance then we find xVM Server by SUN (now Oracle), KVM now by RedHat; all these hypervisors are downloadable and usable for free, almost all with more or less complex management interfaces that are equally free, to the point of being able to create clusters of nodes for free and even to be able to have the hot migration of the VM between the nodes;
Parallel, the last to come out with a hypervisor, charges for it:
- 1248,75€ the Mac Bare Metal Edition
- 429€ the Server 4 bare Metal small business edition
- 829€ the Server 4 bare Metal standard edition
What is the business strategy behind it?
Returning to the summit, from the contents and speakers it also denotes a very strong orientation to Cloud Computing, in the many sessions the new Cloud-based hosting is discussed, the world market is analyzed and the small business is oriented. The introductory keynote analyzes the global home and small business market and Parallels proposes itself as the right partner to take advantage of the Cloud market. The key words used at the summit are:
Innovate
Optimize
Grow
Profit from the Cloud
