You might have noticed that today we have officially announced a new, exclusive partnership with Parallels. This partnership allows Quest Software and Parallels to ship a special Parallels Virtuozzo Containers - Virtual Access Suite bundle. This bundle allows customers to benefit from the combined feature set of both products at greatly reduced prices when compared to purchasing the two products separately: both products at an economically feasible $140 per concurrent desktop connection for the entire stack.
One of the cornerstones of the success of the Virtual Access Suite is our Hypervisor-agnostic approach. With this new partnership we are taking this yet one step further. In the case of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, the term Hypervisor might not even be the anatomically correct term but I am not going to go into that here. For those of you that are unfamiliar with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, here’s what is about in a nutshell: Parallels Virtuozzo Containers enables users to run multiple workloads as isolated, simultaneously executing virtual environments called “containers”. Since it is installed on top of the operating system (OS), the containers use the resources of the underlying host OS, rather than needing their own. This means a far greater density of workloads can be run on a physical server: three times that of other approaches. In addition, fewer deployed OS instances means the solution is easier to manage and containers can be provisioned with applications and services on-the-fly, with a single click.
The fact that Parallels Virtuozzo Containers’ has a different approach to virtualization combined with the fact that this approach allows for greater density of workloads conceptually puts it somewhere in the middle of Terminal Services and VDI. This allows for some exiting, cost effective solutions for all kinds of environments.
If you want to find out more about this unique bundle, feel free to contact the Quest or Parallels presence nearest to you. They will be able to fill you in on the exiting possibilities.
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