As Sentillion begins to roll out its next release of its desktop virtualization solution, it seems as though it won't be powered by VMware any longer. According to the announcement, Parallels and Sentillion have entered into a strategic partnership designed to address the costs, complexities and performance of desktop virtualization technology and radically improve the end user experience. The agreement has Sent As Sentillion begins to roll out its next release of its desktop virtualization solution, it seems as though it won’t be powered by VMware any longer. According to the announcement, Parallels and Sentillion have entered into a strategic partnership designed to address the costs, complexities and performance of desktop virtualization technology and radically improve the end user experience. The agreement has Sentillion vBusiness embedding Parallels Workstation for Windows into its vThere offering. Parallels is a company with recent fame for delivering Parallels Desktop for Mac – the first solution to market that allows Mac users the ability to run Windows and OS X simultaneously on a single Intel-powered Apple computer. This new partnership will allow Parallels to break out of the desktop solution and enter the enterprise-class solution arena. The companies are committed to the co-development of future products and plan to leverage their respective sales channels and participate in cooperative marketing activities. “This relationship leverages Parallels proven leadership in building powerful, user-friendly virtualization solutions, and Sentillion’s unmatched expertise in delivering enterprise-class solutions and infrastructure support, said Benjamin Rudolph, Marketing Manager, Parallels.“Through this partnership, Sentillion vBusiness and Parallels have created a packaged enterprise class virtualized client-side computing solution, which eliminates the challenges and complexities currently associated with the deployment of a virtualized computer to non-technical users,” said Paul Roscoe, president, Sentillion vBusiness. “For the enterprise market, vThere represents a new paradigm for the adoption of desktop virtualization technology by enabling a simple, integrated and seamless experience for both IT professionals and end users.”vThere leverages virtualization technology to enable users to run a contained, controlled and fully functional software environment in a virtualized desktop on computers in remote venues such as a home or branch office. This approach is a powerful alternative to traditional remote access solutions. vThere consists of the vThere Image Creator which is used by IT departments to create distributable vThere images; the vThere Player which is used for playing the images on the end-user host computers; and www.vThere.net, a managed Web site for users to obtain and download their images securely. “One of the key benefits of vThere is how simple it is for our customers to administer and for end users to deploy on their unmanaged personal computers,” said David Fusari, vice president and CTO, Sentillion vBusiness. “By integrating Parallels’ virtualization technology into our vThere offering, our customers are getting a one-stop enterprise class packaged virtualization solution with the levels of security, manageability and usability that they are demanding.” Software Development