Parallels Journal

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/26/12 -- Andrea "Andy" Cunningham has joined Bite Communications as president of North America, a newly created position to spearhead the consultancy's growth strategy and diversify its client service offerings. A serial-entrepreneur and tech marketing communications pioneer, Andy has been at the forefront of strategic positioning and brand marketing for Fortune 500 technology corporations such as AMD, Cisco, HP, IBM, Motorola, Oracle and Xerox for over 25 years. She has been credited with shaping and establishing game-changing market categories including desktop publishing for Apple and Adobe; video gaming with Atari and Electronic Arts; and software as a service (SaaS) for HP. Andy also worked with Steve Jobs to launch Apple's original Macintosh, the company's NeXT line of "Cube" computers and continued to work with Jobs fo... (more)

Technology Experts Guy Kawasaki, Tiffani Bova and Marsha Collier to Deliver Keynote Speeches on the Impact of Cloud at Parallels Summit 2012

Parallels® (www.parallels.com), the hosting and cloud services enablement leader, today officially announced its roster of highly-noted keynote speakers for Parallels Summit 2012, the leading annual global gathering of the cloud industry, scheduled from February 14-16, 2012, at the Gaylord Palms Hotel and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Parallels’ featured keynote speakers – including Guy Kawasaki, technology entrepreneur, best-selling author, and Apple’s first Chief Evangelist; Tiffani Bova, noted Gartner analyst and IT value chain and channel building expert; and Marsh... (more)

Parallels: Building a Cloud Best Practices Hub

Governments considering an enterprise-wide Cloud strategy will obviously need the right choice of platform components, technologies for virtualization, provisioning etc., and ideally more value adds too, like billing as well. Ultimately they’ll arrive at a point of defining an ‘Apps Store’ as the central theme, which will offer a catalogue of Cloud apps via a self-service portal, and by doing so will create the opportunity for various benefits like order streamlining, contract consolidations and better supplier negotiations. In particular it also offers the opportunity to harness a... (more)

Parallels to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2011 Silicon Valley

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $500 Savings here! SYS-CON Events announced today that Parallels, the hosting and cloud services enablement leader, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 9th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Parallels is a worldwide leader in hosting and cloud service enablement and desktop virtualization. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 800 employees in North America, Europe and Asia. The company... (more)

ista North America Announces the Appointment of Industry Leader as New CIO

ALPHARETTA, GA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/26/12 -- ista North America, the country's leader in energy and water metering, billing and management, has announced the addition of industry expert Jim Crysdale as Chief Information Officer. Crysdale brings over twenty years of executive management and IT experience and has spent the past decade focused specifically on utilities and competitive energy. His technical and strategic expertise will contribute significantly as ista continues to strengthen its IT organization. "ista is extremely pleased to have Mr. Crysdale on board," said CEO Rue... (more)