Enables existing and prospective partners to increase revenue through cloud computing awareness and knowledge.

Parallels, a provider of virtualization and automation software, today announced that it will present a series of premier European hosting events dedicated to its partners and other hosts and cloud services providers looking for virtualization and automation technology. The company states that its Partner Roadshow provides the partner community with a unique forum to learn how to leverage cloud computing as a software and service delivery model. It further states that the forum also lets partners and prospective-partners connect with hundreds of decision-makers and its executives, to share real world experience and to obtain the guidance necessary to succeed in this challenging economy.

It claims that the partner events will offer a broad array of content designed to help attendees evaluate everything from virtualization to applications to automation- everything a business needs to refine / start laying-out its plans for cloud computing.

The company avers that the Parallels Partner Roadshow will provide:

• Business Opportunities - Exclusive insights from leading industry sponsors including: VeriSign, Red Hat, Internet X, OpenSRS, Unison, Backupagent, Scalix/Xandros, Bobcares, Epages, and Commtouch
  
  
• Education – The venue will offer in-depth information and demonstrations designed specifically for EU hosts and partners, with several sessions focused on cloud computing best practices, such as SaaS and automation
  
  
• Great Connections – Collaborate and connect with its partners to develop new solutions for customers and turn information into real revenue growth

"Our goal is to provide Parallel's partners a continual growth path to help expand business,'' said Jack Zubarev, President, Service Provider Division, Parallels. ''The Parallels Partner Roadshow will educate partners and demonstrate how they can utilize Parallels virtualization and automation products to power their hosting and managed services offerings."

"VeriSign looks forward to participating in the Parallels Partner Roadshow,'' said Michael Lin, Vice President and General manager of SSL at VeriSign. ''Together, VeriSign SSL Certificates, user authentication products, and domain name services offer Parallels partners and Web hosts around the globe a trusted online environment to conduct business."