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Overview

Parallels Solution

Resources & Evidence

In today’s competitive business climate, employees need access to specific software applications to do their jobs effectively. Additionally, organizations need to effectively develop server solutions to support an increasing number of Mac clients.

Through virtualization on the Mac desktop platform, end users can easily access the technologies they need. By virtualizing the Mac server platform, organizations can consolidate and streamline their overall IT infrastructure and integrate Apple Xserve hardware for increased IT infrastructure flexibility.

Key Areas of Concern

Supporting key business applications while standardizing the hardware platform
Supporting multi-user technology needs with multi-tier business applications with existing IT infrastructures
Running multi-OS environments across standardized hardware
Supporting business-required legacy applications on outdated hardware
Integrating Mac desktop and server hardware into existing IT infrastructures
Cost-effectively supporting an increasing number of Mac-based clients

Key Objectives

Comply with business needs for multi-tier business and server applications across standardized hardware
Seamlessly integrate multi-tier business applications into existing IT infrastructures
Increase end user and development flexibility by providing access to critical desktop and server applications while managing fewer physical machines
Cost-effectively integrate new and existing Apple Xserve hardware into multi-platform IT infrastructures
Deliver anytime access to non-supported or legacy applications without requiring dedicated computing resources

Through virtualization on the Mac, IT departments can effectively empower end users and IT professionals with familiar technologies that work well together and address the needs of their organizations’ growing need to incorporate the Mac platform.

Parallels Desktop for Mac — Best design platform meets the best business productivity platforms

Parallels Desktop for Mac turns a Mac into the only computer that can run all major operating systems and native applications. In many environments, the simultaneous use of Mac and Windows programs has quickly become standard, and IT professionals have used Parallels Desktop for Mac to integrate Macs into Windows-only environments, increasing end-user flexibility and productivity while decreasing desktop complexity.

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Parallels Server for Mac — World’s first innovative server virtualization solution for the Mac

Parallels Server for Mac is the world’s first server virtualization software to power the world’s leading server applications, including Microsoft Exchange, Oracle Database and Microsoft SharePoint, on Intel-based Apple Xserves. Competitively priced, Parallels Server for Mac seamlessly integrates into existing IT infrastructures, making it the ideal solution for cost-conscious organizations seeking to consolidate and optimize their overall IT infrastructures.

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For IT

Through Parallels’ Mac virtualization solutions, IT professionals can increase company-wide productivity and efficiency by easily running multi-platform applications on significantly fewer desktop machines. Software deployment and development can be simplified multiple physical test machines are no longer necessary, reducing the number of hardware while increasing testing flexibility, efficiency and quality.

Now able to virtualize the Mac server platform, IT professionals can easily integrate the Apple Xserve hardware platform to further consolidate multi-platform server workloads such as corporate email and databases.

For the Organization

Parallels desktop virtualization solutions for the Mac help maximize end-user agility with an integrated user-experience, freeing workers to focus on the task at hand. Parallels server virtualization solution for the Mac helps organizations of all sizes cost-effectively consolidate their overall IT infrastructures, maintain critical server systems such as corporate email and databases, create more development and IT flexibility and address the increasing demand for Mac platform support.

Organizations achieve business continuity and cost-effective increased IT flexibility without multi-tasking on different machines. Underutilized physical machines can be converted into hosts for virtual machines — including those running legacy or Windows-only software — to give workers access to the applications they need while managing less computing resources.

Resources

Parallels Virtualization Solutions Brochure (PDF — 2.8MB)

Parallels Server for Mac Flash Demo

The Enterprise Desktop Alliance
A consortium of enterprise software companies that deliver solutions that address the problems of IT administration when integrating Macs.

Evidence

Customer Success Story: BrandLogic (PDF — 205KB)
Learn how 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.

Customer Success Story: Mediafly (PDF — 45KB)
Learn how Mediafly empowers its employees with a variety of operating systems, so cross-platform development becomes a key to the success of its product. Parallels Desktop for Mac enables each Mediafly developer to code and test applications on several target platforms, including Windows, OS X and Linux, all from a single machine.

White Paper: Choosing the Right Server Solution to Virtualize Apple Xserves (PDF — 186KB)
Learn more about the differences between desktop virtualization and server virtualization for the Apple Xserve. Discover how Parallels Server for Mac addresses the needs of organizations seeking to effectively consolidate and streamline their overall IT infrastructures by integrating their Apple Xserve hardware.

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