{"id":5558,"date":"2013-01-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/jan\/28\/cisco-courts-parallels-and-desktop-virtualisation-in-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2013-01-28T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T11:00:00","slug":"cisco-courts-parallels-and-desktop-virtualisation-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cisco-courts-parallels-and-desktop-virtualisation-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco courts Parallels and \u201cdesktop virtualisation\u201d in the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Parallels<\/span> is a global firm reputed in offering cloud service enablement, hosting and desktop visualisation. The company was founded in 1999 and currently boasts of over 900 employees spanning across the globe- North America, Asia and Europe.<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To capitalise on Parallels&#8217; success story, <strong>Cisco,<\/strong> the global networking giant, of recent has made an equity investment of $11 million to the desktop virtualisation firm. The investment was done through Almaz Capital Partners.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hilton Romanski, V.P., Corporate Business Development Cisco, &#8220;Cisco is continuing its commitment to technology development and innovation through strategic investments. &#8221; The collaboration with Parallels is geared to deliver easier to use and efficient cloud services. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, Cisco is hoping to leverage on Parallels&#8217; global presence &#8211; especially in Russia &#8211; to fuel innovation worldwide. The investment is a viable acquisition for Cisco, especially if the cloud infrastructure giant intends to incorporate virtualisation in its Cisco Unified Computing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parallels is a global firm reputed in offering cloud service enablement, hosting and desktop visualisation. The company was founded in 1999 and currently boasts of over 900 employees spanning across the globe- North America, Asia and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>To capita&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}