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Today we announced that SWsoft, Parallels’ parent company, and Intel have joined forces on a major collaboration to make desktop virtualization an accepted and mainstream technology, specifically by engaging our engineering teams to accelerate the development and implementation of key workstation and desktop technologies, including Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d) and Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT).

There’s a lot of technical jargon in that short sentence, so let me answer the real question…why does this collaboration matter?

Collaborating with Intel on TXT, which is a new processor-level technology that ensures that the boot process is secure, meams that Parallels can offer the world’s first truly secure VMM, one in which we can guarantee that the Parallels hypervisor and VMM have not been compromised by any kind of malware (think Blue Pill).

Very cool, desktop virtualization remains an effective platform for delivering the desktop in a more energy efficient and operationally efficient way. Being able to dynamically provision, to roll back or increase instances in line with demand changes again the model from desktop selling, box provisioning to service provisioning, where I can respond to the business need, a more fluid type way of providing the IT infrastructure.

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