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Network security requirements are continually evolving, with cybersecurity issues becoming a day-to-day hassle for organizations. Undertaking regular vulnerability assessments (VAs) can help you understand structural...

As with on-premises datacenters, planned maintenance operations and potential hardware faults must be considered when deploying resources over the cloud. Therefore, a proper organization of virtual machines becomes essential to avoid or...

Apple’s “one more thing” event on November 10, 2020, revealed the first Mac computers powered by the Apple M1 chip. Parallels is excited to see the performance, power efficiency, and virtualization features that are...

Many people have heard about public, private and hybrid clouds. But a fourth model has been around for a while now in the ever-changing cloud-deployment landscape. A community cloud is a modernized version of the private cloud that...

A firewall is an essential layer of security that acts as a barrier between private networks and the outside world. From first-generation, stateless firewalls to next-generation firewalls, firewall architectures have evolved tremendously over the...

One of the main reasons why organizations decide to move their resources to a cloud provider is to guarantee as much reliability and availability for their services as possible. The distribution of workloads and resources among...

This post is part of a series to assist new users of Parallels Desktop. Virtual machines for Parallels Desktop on your Mac can be pretty large. Even a basic install of Windows 10 with Office for...

The Internet Protocol, or IP, is the set of rules that makes it possible for our computers and other communication devices to connect to each other over the internet. Whenever you open a website on your browser, a data packet with your IP...

Understanding the FundamentalsMuch like many organizations, you probably opted for cloud computing when you first launched your web application, database, or mail server. After all, cloud computing services seem...

Creating and maintaining multiple virtual machines (VMs) at all the levels of the computing stack is a fundamental component of any modern IT infrastructure. Replication remains the most powerful tool that organizations can use to...