KDDI America selects Peter Bauert and Parallels to power KA-Kloud

Parallels—an internationally renowned company in automation and virtualization software industry—and its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Finance Officer Peter Bauert are chosen by Kokusai Denshin Denwa International (KDDI) America to power its latest cloud service, the KA-Kloud.

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With the use of Parallels’ service Parallels Automation, KDDI America aims to quickly and successfully launch KA-Kloud—a comprehensive and secure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution designed to facilitate smooth and easy business transition to a cloud environment. Parallels Automation can help in providing end-to-end service automation to permit KDDI customers to have control of the system through self-service. With this, KDDI America will be able to respond to customer requests for capacity and time increases. The billing features of Parallels Automation will also let the company offer customers of flexible pricing.

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Peter Bauert and Parallels offer Parallels Automation to service providers—like KDDI America—worldwide to help them automate all aspects of offering, managing, delivering, and billing their services. The Parallels Automation is a complete operational and business support system that was built particularly for cloud services providers.


KDDI America is the US counterpart of the KDDI group based in Tokyo—a Fortune Global 500 company that is considered a leader provider of international IT and communications services. And with the help of Parallels and its Parallels Automation, this internationally prominent service provider is able to improve its operations.

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More information about Peter Bauert, Parallels, and Parallels Automation maybe accessed at www.parallels.com.

Peter Bauert: Winning awards place companies at the top of the game

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Peter Bauert, former EVP Strategy & Operations at Fast Search & Transfer, is now part of a team at an IT company that boasts of over 50 awards since 1999. Parallels, where Bauert is now COO and CFO, is a leading company in virtualization and automation software.

MacWorld— a monthly computer magazine published by Mac Publishing, is one of the many award giving bodies that has bestowed Parallels numerous awards, including the much-coveted Best Consumer Software for the product Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac, Editor’s Choice Award—receiving five out of five stars—for the Parallels Desktop 6 software, and other awards from MacWorld Expo. Peter Bauert is proud to be part of a team that has been consistently recognized for their efforts in providing individuals and organizations around the world the best kind of service and software products.

PC Pro reviews one of the company’s products,Parallels Desktop 6, as a product that its competitors will find difficult to match. Parallels Desktop 6 is a software solution that enables consumers to access Windows on their Mac, allowing them to run Mac and Windows programs side-by-side. The review says that the product’s newest feature—an application for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch gives it an edge over the competitor’s products. The new product feature is reported to allow users to access their virtual machines over the internet without experiencing any problems.

Learn more about Parallels Desktop 6 at www.parallels.com.

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Peter Bauert and Parallels: Helping partners break into the healthcare, cloud, and enterprise markets

Peter Bauert’s company, Parallels, a leading provider of virtualization and automation software to consumers, businesses, and service providers around the world, has made a series of announcements intended to help its partners break into the healthcare, cloud, and enterprise markets.

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The company is planning to invest $5 million over the next two years in speeding up the adoption of cloud services by healthcare organizations worldwide. This will be done in partnership with Microsoft. Last July, the two companies announced their two-year strategic relationship aimed at delivering complete cloud automation solutions focused on meeting the needs of the health industry around the world.

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Microsoft and Parallels, where Peter Bauert is serving as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer, has made the Health Community Automation (HCCA) product available for use by Microsoft global network of Office 365 Syndication Partners, allowing organizations to access Microsoft products hosted within a private cloud.

Moreover, Parallels released in the market an enterprise version of the Desktop 6 for Mac software to cope with the growing demand of Mac computers in the workplace. The technology enables end users to run both Windows and Apple applications on Mac computers.

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Parralels provides a wide range of virtualization and automation solutions to help individuals and organizations of all sizes realize the benefits of optimized computing. Parallels’ success has made it one of the leaders in the IT industry today.

More information about Peter Bauert and Parallels is available at www.parallels.com.

Peter Bauert: Parrallels Automation Aids Service Providers in Delivering Microsoft Office 365 Services

Parrallels, Inc. is led by a proven team of seasoned executives including Peter Bauert, CFO and Chief Operating Officer of the company. With a goal of producing only high quality virtualization and automation software, Parallels has been successful in the IT industry, with 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

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Among the company’s latest business endeavors include the syndication for Microsoft Office 365 through Parallels’ flagship Parallels Automation which automates delivery, provisioning, and billing of service delivery that is now extended to support Office 365. This represents the fastest way for service providers such as TDC Hosting and KPN to bring Office 365 to the market and accelerate time to revenue and profitability.

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Peter Bauert, together with the other executives at the company, ensures that with Parallels Automation syndicated with Office 365, customers will now have the ability to do the following: launch services in just weeks instead of months, integrate with existing operational and business support systems leveraging a set of open APIs, and deliver hundreds of integrated IaaS and SaaS cloud services with a single automated platform.

Small and midsize businesses can now get the latest productivity technology in a single cloud service. Parallels also notes that the Parallels Automation/Office 365 Integration is an example of a close collaboration between two organizations committed to allowing service providers and, by extension, customers to profit from the cloud.

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More information on Parallels Automation is available at www.parallels.com.

Peter Bauert on IPv6: Reasons to take the Leap

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With the deployment of the internet protocol version six (IPv6) on the works, the industry is hard put at familiarizing its skeptics on the advantages of adopting the protocol.

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Address scheme. The IPv6 is specifically designed to meet the demands of global growth. Thus, it was created with a 128-bit address scheme compared to the IPv6’s 32-bit.

Security. Dubbed the IPSec (internet protocol security), the protocol has built-in security features that allow devices to directly connect and establish a secure link, eliminating the need for third-party channels.

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Streamlined encapsulation. The streamlined encapsulation feature increases routing efficiency thus paving the way for faster forwarding rates via routers.

Quality of service. Unlike the IPv4 where flow labels are required to go through packets to identify content, the IPv6 stores data on its header, thereby increasing speed and minimizing traffic. This type of serviceability is what Peter Bauert and Parallels are gunning for.

Protocol preservation and transition. Transitioning solutions have been created to allow both protocols to coexist when deploying either one into a single system. The most common forms are the dual stack and tunneling methods. Dual stack allows a user to run both protocols simultaneously, while tunneling allows a user to “tunnel” over either protocol to transmit data from one ip version to another.

Address configuration. The new protocol supports both stateless and stateful address configuration, enabling a user to host configuration with or without the presence of DHCPv6 (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6).

Extensibility. Designed as the ultimate solution for the flaws of the IPv4, IPv6 can be easily reconfigured and redesigned to incorporate new features by simply supplying the necessary extension headers into the IPv6 header.

Learn more about applications and technologies that support IPv6 at www.parallels.com.

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Peter Bauert and Parallels Invites the IT Industry to the Annual Hostapalooza

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Peter Bauert and executives of Parallels, Inc. are geared towards the commencement of the third forum to be conducted as part of the year-long Hostapalooza convention to be held in various global locations from Santa Ana, California to Sydney, Australia. Having kicked off this year's event last March 2 in Canada, the next Hospatalooza event is slotted for the 7th of June at Ingram Micro's office in Buffalo, New York.

This live-in person information technology event is designed to assist mid-market web hosting providers in activating new clients. Hostapalooza features presentations from Microsoft Corporation and industry leaders including Brocade, CA, Citrix Systems, Hewlett Packard, Juniper, and Parallels.

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Hostapalooza is hosted by leading companies in the industry including Fortune 100 companies Microsoft and Ingram Micro. Peter Bauert says Parallels will be joining the industry’s key players in future events, which are scheduled as follows:

• June 16 : Alpharetta, Georgia
• July 2011: Los Angeless, California
• August 2011: Vancouver, British Columbia
• September: Boston, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• October: Paris, France; London, United Kingdom; Munich, Germany; and Prague, Czech Republic
• November: Sydney, Australia; Singapore; and Mumbai, India

Together with Microsoft, Ingram Micro’s Hosting University, which was established in 2010, offers the Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) to web hosting providers and independent software vendors with hosted offering, enabling them to deal out licenses for Microsoft products. The university also provides comprehensive information on the latest products, marketing, and licensing resources, and offers trainings and seminars on a multitude of hosting-related innovations. Ingram Micro is the world's largest distributor of information technology infrastructure providing sales, marketing, and logistics solutions for small-scale to large-scale businesses worldwide.

For inquiries and additional information, please visit the Parallels website at www.parallels.com.

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Green Alternatives: Peter Bauert on OS Virtualization

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Peter Bauert discusses the viable alternatives for businesses gearing towards adapting greener server solutions.


While all existing virtualization applications have been developed through one underlying concept, not all virtualization approaches are the same. At present, the three main approaches are hardware virtualization, paravirtualization, and operating system (OS) virtualization.

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Hardware Virtualization

These are products designed to run multiple operating systems on a single server. The technology recreates the work of server hardware as well as the OS vendors, server hardware resources, and server users’ resources and integrates them into the virtual environment. Parallels is among the leading vendors of hardware virtualization technology.

Paravirtualization

A Xen open source project, paravirtualization is comparable to the hardware virtualization as it is similarly designed to enable a server to run multiple OSs.

OS Virtualization

Peter Bauert identifies Parallel’s Virtuozzo and Sun’s Solaris Containers as the leading vendors utilizing this approach. Unlike the other two technologies, OS virtualization does not support multiple OSs on a single server. Instead, it is designed primarily to merge multiple virtual servers by creating isolated partitions on a single server and OS.


The ability of both hardware virtualization and paravirtualization to run different OSs side by side on a single server at the same time gives them an edge. However, this function alone results in high overhead and inefficiencies such as reduction in consolidation ratio and a decrease in response time.


Parallels’ Virtuozzo remains to be the greenest virtualization option not only because of reduced overhead and increased efficiency. In addition, it enables more virtual applications to reside on one server thereby decreasing the number of physical servers required to operate.

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Learn more about OS virtualization at www.parallels.com.

Peter Bauert Affirms Parallels and Scality Partnership Towards Scaling Storage Stability

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Parallels, Inc. Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Peter Bauert applauds Parallels and Scality’s partnership as it gears towards stabilizing and advancing the scaling storage technology.

A pioneer in the cloud system storage, Scality is considered to be one of the key players and trend setters in the technology. Scality recently announced its successful Series B round funding to complement its San Francisco headquarters with a New York office to support the East Coast market. With its expansion, Scality continues to enhance their storage platform technology by developing a full multi-tenancy feature for service providers seeking to provide virtual private cloud solutions. This new feature is yet to be introduced into private cloud environments.

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Peter Bauert says that through the OEM partnership, Scality’s RING will provide the underlying cloud storage technology necessary to support Parallels’ Automation for Cloud Infrastructure. The automation is a cloud infrastructure solution enabling service providers with faster delivery of more comprehensive infrastructure support especially for small businesses and developers seeking to transition into cloud computing solutions.

With the two companies leading the hosting market, Bauert considers the partnership to be very timely as Scality is closing in on solving IT’s biggest problem regarding extremely large scale storage. Described as an application centric cloud storage system, Scality’s RING is capable of transforming x86 server hardware and ethernet LANs into cloud storage scaling up into exabytes. In turn, Parallels provides the platform to transform data centers into infrastructure environments.

Learn more about cloud computing and virtualization solutions at www.parallels.com.

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Greener Virtualization: Peter Bauert on Parallels' Virtuozzo Containers

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Parallels COO and CFO Peter Bauert says virtual operating systems are generally designed to optimize server utilization. However, Parallels, Inc. raises the bar and goes beyond optimization. Its latest technology, the Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, creates greener virtualization – a system that is more efficient, cost-effective, and consumes less energy.

Green computing, which aims to provide a more sustainable IT solution, aims to create energy-efficient virtualization by taking away unnecessary servers and leaving only those which are energy-efficient. In addition, the current specifications of these servers are increased for the purpose of maximizing utility without employing additional hardware.

Although the technology is relatively new, operating system virtualization currently proves to be the greenest approach in server virtualization compared to hardware virtualization or paravirtualization.

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Peter Bauert believes it is high time that the industry ventures into green computing. The environmental impact of and cost of energy consumption are the leading factors contributing to the need for sustainable solutions.

In 2006, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that datacenters consumed 61 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity amounting to $4.5 billion in costs. Unless immediate steps are taken to remedy the situation, statistics are expected to double by 2011.

Gartner analyst Simon Mingay emphasizes, “Failure to [go green] risks incurring unnecessary costs, the potential loss of competitive position, or becoming the target of unwanted attention by environmental pressure groups, the media, and politicians.”

More information about the sustainable solutions provided by the Parallels' Virtuozzo Containers can be found at www.parallels.com.

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Peter Bauert on Cloud Services: Rapid Growth and Increasing Revenue

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The International Data Corporation (IDC) recently revealed predictions that the public IT cloud services could reach an astounding amount of $55.5 billion in 2014. Parallels Chief Financial Officer Peter Bauert echoes that this rapid growth presents a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 27.4%. Since the CAGR for traditional IT projects is a meager 5%, the 27.4% increase both baffles and excites experts.

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According to the IDC, this rapid growth offers a view of the current Cloud Services Industry by illustrating that while public IT cloud services are gaining modest revenue the industry continues to grow at an alarming rate. IDC Senior Vice President Frank Gens offers his opinion that cloud computing expands for two key reasons: leadership disruption and market growth. The market growth reflects the low cost maintenance of IT computing and the excitement of IT customers about the latest trends. Peter Bauert adds that as the cloud model expands and grows, the industry will distribute a generation of better and bolder apps that can successfully penetrate small and medium-sized businesses. In line with this, the IDC further forecasts that demand for cloud computing services, specifically services for security, cost monitoring/management, availability, standards, and integration will increase in the coming years.

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As a leader in Cloud computing services, virtualization, and automation software, Parallels is poised to take on the challenges brought about by the improving market trends. Additional information on Parallels’ latest ventures and products is available at www.parallels.com.

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