As organizations reevaluate virtualization strategies, many are moving beyond traditional hypervisors to pursue greater flexibility, lower costs, and infrastructure aligned with their business goals. At the same time, IT teams and service providers face the challenge of managing and automating workloads across an increasingly diverse virtualization landscape.
Watch this recorded session introducing the Custom Provider Framework, a key innovation in Parallels RAS 21.2 that expands integration possibilities across a wide range of virtualization environments.
The Custom Provider Framework enables organizations to integrate platforms such as Proxmox, Virtuozzo, VergeIO, KVM-based and Xen-based environments, edge deployments, and private or public cloud infrastructures into Parallels RAS automation workflows. IT teams can provision, manage, and scale workloads directly through Parallels RAS while maintaining the freedom to choose the infrastructure that best meets their needs.
This session also provides an overview of other enhancements included in the Parallels RAS 21.2 release.
What you'll learn
- How the Custom Provider Framework enables automation across virtually any hypervisor platform
- How Parallels RAS simplifies VM provisioning, management, and scaling in custom environments
- How organizations can maintain infrastructure flexibility while preserving operational consistency
- Real-world deployment examples, including Proxmox-based environments
- Key updates and enhancements introduced in Parallels RAS 21.2
Meet the speaker
Steven Dewinter is Senior Global Director for Sales
Engineering at Parallels.
He has a broad background in end-user computing and IT
infrastructure, with experience in technical leadership, pre-sales, product management,
and marketing. Prior to Parallels, he was COO of Awingu, helping shape the company’s
growth and customer strategy. Earlier, at Proximus, Belgium’s leading telecom provider,
he gained deep enterprise IT expertise and played a key role in launching the company’s
cloud business.
Known for his customer-first mindset, Steven bridges the gap between technology and
business outcomes, ensuring organizations get real value out of their IT investments. He
is a frequent speaker at industry events and enjoys engaging directly with customers and
partners to share insights, challenges, and best practices.
Freek Berson is a Principal Product Manager at Parallels with a focus on Parallels RAS and Cloud solutions for virtual applications and desktop delivery. As an end user computing evangelist and a trusted adviser for strategic customers and partners, he collaborates closely with product management and product marketing teams. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetups around the world, a published author of various books, and has been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional annually since 2011.
Chris Marks is a Principal Outbound Product Manager at Parallels. An experienced public speaker with a passion for the power of community engagement, he spends time with customers and channel partners, learning about how their businesses are coping with fundamental shifts in working practices alongside rapid changes in the way services are being consumed. He’s focused on how organizations can remain competitive in today’s environment and how we can work together to deliver simplified, more agile, services that allow them to do so.