Companies in various industries use Parallels virtualization technology to meet their business needs. Review the case studies below to see how Parallels Desktop for Mac or Parallels Workstation has already met the needs of organizations like yours.
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Greenwich Academy When the school’s server room was flooded, several Windows machines were destroyed, leaving the school unable to resume classes and other school operations. Parallels Desktop for Mac enabled the school’s IT staff to restore and run the Windows servers on its Mac hardware and the school resumed normal operations in less than 24 hours after the flood. |
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Salish Kootenai College Salish Kootenai College was finding it financially difficult to keep up with Microsoft upgrades and licensing fees. After deciding to integrate Mac OS X as an alternative, the school still needed access to Windows-only business applications. |
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Oakland University Oakland University needed to equip students and teachers with computer labs that encompassed both Macs and PCs. By deploying Parallels Desktop for Mac to its computer labs, Oakland University has been able to reallocate valuable school resources that have increased savings and productivity across the campus. |
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West Valley College West Valley College is a junior college with degree programs ranging from accounting to computer information systems. As the student body grew, West Valley needed to update its IT infrastructure with computers that would allow teachers and students - especially those in the programming and application development disciplines - access to multiple platforms. |
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Central Washington University Central Washington University is a comprehensive, accredited, four-year university. The university needed a flexible, cost-effective solution that fit both its labs and its budget while still addressing the needs of a rapidly growing, diverse student population. |
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Russell County Unified School District #407 USD #407 is a comprehensive K-12 school system that needed to run its critical Windows-based accounting programs in conjunction with its key Mac applications. |
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Delta VISTA – Venture Academy Delta VISTA, a Science and Technology charter school, deployed Parallels Desktop for Mac to its computer lab to provide its students access to Mac OS X software, Linux applications, and Windows-only GIS software from ESRI. |
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Wentworth Institute of Technology Founded in 1904, the Wentworth Institute of Technology is a nationally-ranked design and technology educational institution focused on hands-on experience with the most cutting-edge technology available. In 2004, WIT launched its Laptop Initiative to provide each freshman with a PC or Mac laptop preconfigured with the applications for the student’s chosen studies but faced cumbersome deployment and multiple site licenses for additional software. |
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BrandLogic The BrandLogic team preferred to work with Macs but needed easy access to Windows, Linux, and Solaris to interface with clients, regardless of their server or desktop environments. |
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Digital Communications Systems Digital Communications Systems provides communications engineering, design, and operation for the largest sporting events televised in the US. |
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Xingtone Xingtone develops and delivers multimedia content, particularly ringtones, for consumers and businesses to deploy on wireless devices. |
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Think Small Communications Think Small Communications provides clients with a full range of marketing solutions, including print and electronic advertising material, interactive media, company branding, creative copy, and strategic counseling for business-to-business communications. |
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Mediafly Mediafly is an up-and-coming media personalization engine company that searches for and delivers Internet content to its subscribers’ mobile devices and personal computers. The company also works with independent authors to deliver original content to Mediafly customers and with advertisers, who are looking to connect with a wider audience. |
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Telestream A cross-platform media encoding solutions developer, Telestream needed to reduce hardware costs yet still empower its employees with access to Windows and Mac OS X. |
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BooksValue Parallels Desktop for Mac enabled employees to access, manage, and maintain their Windows-only SQL 2000 server remotely from their Macs. |
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SAS® Originally supported on almost any platform, SAS® solutions targeted PCs when Windows and Linux dominated most business platforms. However, some SAS programmers remained Mac-loyal. As Macs gradually returned to their customers’ offices, SAS found itself with a golden opportunity to bring Macs back to its programmers. |
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San Francisco State University Bookstore San Francisco State University Bookstore is an independent, non-profit university book reseller that relies upon Visual RATEX, an industry-specific college bookstore application. When Visual RATEX switched to a Windows-only GUI, the SFSU Bookstore’s IT staff knew it had to run Windows on its Macs, or it would face abandoning its Mac platform to switch over to PCs. |
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The Moyer Group Because The Moyer Group utilizes a Macintosh platform, employees were unable to completely simulate their clients’ Windows environments and experienced difficulty connecting to their systems, which impacted their ability to produce and deliver quality solutions. |
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Atomic Learning Atomic Learning needed a cost-effective, easy-to-use, stable, high-performance virtualization solution that offered the flexibility to give its technicians critical access to a complete range of operating systems, applications, tools, USB devices and peripherals. |
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Kentucky Dataseam Initiative KY Dataseam deployed Parallels Desktop for Mac to all new Macs, which gave teachers and students the ability to work in Windows and OS X and enabled researchers to maintain the integrity of the computing grid so that they could continue their cancer research. |
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COMPanion Corp Developer of automation solutions for schools and libraries, COMPanion Corp needed to reduce IT costs and provide its developers a flexible, fully integrated working environment. |
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Web Crossing Web Crossing, Inc. develops high-performance, flexible online collaboration software. With each developer burdened with 10 physical computers for development and testing, Web Crossing needed to provide a more flexible working environment and standardize onto a single hardware platform. |
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cDs cDs, international provider of customized, industry-specific business management software to more than 300 clients in the art and fashion industry, partners with Parallels to expand its customer base and reach some of the world’s most influential Art and Fashion businesses and representatives. |
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Humboldt Computer Company Humboldt provides PC repair, web development and technical support for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating systems. Each person develops projects and tests website compatibility across multiple platforms and was therefore equipped with at least two dedicated machines at all times. |
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Quicksilver Software, Inc. Quicksilver develops video and PC games for various platforms, including Mac, PC, Nintendo, and Sony. Quicksilver needed to provide its employees easier access to key Mac and Windows development tools as well as safer testing environments for its products. |
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VideoEgg VideoEgg develops Flash-based media solutions that make it easy for any user at almost any level to post videos to the Internet. VideoEgg needed to reduce IT costs, give employees the functionality and flexibility they needed, and make room in the budget to hire additional staff. |
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