Industry's first virtualization solution for Apple servers offered as a hosted solution.

Parallels, a provider of virtualization and automation software, today announced the hosting implementation of Parallels Server for Mac, the world's first server virtualization solution for Intel-powered Apple Mac systems. The company avers that its Parallels Server for Mac is a powerful and easy-to-use hypervisor solution for server virtualization that runs on any Intel-powered Apple hardware, including Xserve and Mac Pros that support running Leopard Server or Tiger Server. Product launch partner Media Temple is already utilizing Parallels Server for Mac with the world's first Leopard VPS hosting solution; the Xserve-Virtual server, the company adds.

It further explains that virtualization provides service providers such as Media Temple with the ability to offer complete servers or slices of a server with isolated resources. Their new Xserve-Virtual product Beta is running 2GB of RAM with a dedicated CPU core of an Apple Xserve with 8 3GHz CPU cores, 32GB of RAM with 15,000 RPM SAS drives in RAID.
 
"Parallels Server for Mac enables service providers to offer their clients the option of hosting a Mac OS while maintaining the operational and management benefits of virtualization," said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels. "Not only does Parallels Server for Mac open the door for virtualizing Apple servers, it also adds hypervisor-based server virtualization to our 'Optimized Computing' vision."

"Through Parallels Server for Mac, we can apply our years of experience with web hosting technologies to deliver new services based on Apple servers," said Demian Sellfors, CEO of Media Temple. "For 7 years, Parallels has been an incredible partner who consistently delivers virtualization software and tools. It's been crucial to our business and has helped make us one of the largest Parallels Virtuozzo Containers virtual deployments in the world."