Today's IT infrastructures are increasingly complex, costly and cumbersome to manage. From desktops to servers to applications, virtualization has answered the call to control the rising tide of IT infrastructure costs. By improving development and testing efforts and lowering overall hardware costs through consolidation, virtualization's applicability has become more pronounced and widely implemented.

Now an accepted mainstream technology, virtualization is key to addressing the multitude of cost, process and administrative issues facing IT today.

With these initial proven successes, IT managers and IT executives now look to apply virtualization on a large scale to solve the following problems:

1. Cost effective virtualization of all data center workloads, including previously unvirtualized workloads such as databases
2. Complete automation of data center processes
3. Improving IT accounting, administration and transparency

To address these challenges, Parallels is introducing its vision for the next phase of virtualization, the virtualized data center.

Benefits of the Virtualized Data Center

• Making every workload virtualized and mobile
• Allocating resources to workloads based on demand
• Enabling policy based resource allocations
• Enabling complete accounting and chargeback of resources
• Enabling self-provisioning and delegation across the organization
• Automating all routine administrative tasks
• Provisioning workloads on demand in seconds
• Turning IT into green IT, lowering energy costs and consumption
• Improving the availability and transparency of all IT services

Parallels Solutions

Parallels offers an end-to-end portfolio of virtualization and automation solutions that enable organizations to scale their IT infrastructures and data centers.

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers

The leading OS virtualization solution, Parallels Virtuozzo enables large organizations to consolidate multiple servers onto fewer physical servers, creating more flexible, scalable, easily managed IT infrastructures and reducing energy consumption.

• Higher Density - 3-10x the number of virtual servers on each physical hardware node.
• Best Manageability - Only solution to decrease OS sprawl while increasing virtual server management.
• Native Performance - Consolidation of performance sensitive workloads without risking performance issues.
• Provisioning and deployment of new applications and virtual servers in seconds.

Parallels Infrastructure Manager (PIM)

The web-based management interface utilized to manage Parallels Virtuozzo Containers virtual IT infrastructures, PIM gives IT administrators more control, flexibility and time to deliver new services to grow the company.

• Unified Management: All physical servers and virtualized containers are managed seamlessly from a single management interface.
• Customized User Access: Different access rights are assigned to different users to suit their job roles.
• Faster Deployment: Templates enable on-the-fly OS and application deployments to containers.
• Streamlined Container Backup: Scheduling and automation of container backups.

Parallels Automation Solutions

These customizable data center automation solutions enable self provisioning and administration of IT resources by departments and chargeback accounting based on resource usage.