With a collaboration deal announced between HP and Parallels, Parallels is bringing container-based virtualization to Hewlett Packard's Integrity server line, including the largest 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome servers. The deal will address the needs of customers who require Windows and Linux based Itanium virtualization. During the past few months, HP has struck a number of deals incorporating virtualiza With a collaboration deal announced between HP and Parallels, Parallels is bringing container-based virtualization to Hewlett Packard’s Integrity server line, including the largest 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome servers. The deal will address the needs of customers who require Windows and Linux based Itanium virtualization.During the past few months, HP has struck a number of deals incorporating virtualization into their product lines. With its ProLiant x86 server line, the company is embedding versions of VMware ESX and Citrix XenServer hypervisors. The deal with Parallels will give HP enterprise customers a solution to deploy advanced virtualization features on their Itanium-processor based systems running mission-critical Windows and Linux workloads.Today’s virtualization market is dominated by VMware. But the container-based solution from Parallels differs from VMware’s hypervisor approach. Whereas VMware partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machine environments, Parallels’ containers partition an operating system into isolated workload environments (or containers). These containers can scale to the full resources of the underlying hardware, and dynamic workload capabilities enable users to allocate system resources to each container on the fly. This allows HP Integrity servers to be virtualized for even greater utilization, giving its users a higher return on their investment and providing a more flexible operating environment. “Container virtualization is increasingly popular for virtualizing high performance, production workloads. This makes our technology a perfect fit with HP Integrity servers,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels. “We are excited to continue to build on recent customer momentum for Parallels Containers through this collaboration with HP.”Parallels Virtuozzo Containers on the HP Integrity server is available now for $4,500 per 2 processors and the Parallels Virtuozzo Containers/Parallels Infrastructure Manager bundle is $5,000. Visit Parallels’ Web site for more information or to purchase and download Parallels Virtuozzo Containers. Software Development