Parallels
today announced its container-based products, Parallels
Cloud Server and Parallels
Virtuozzo Containers (open sourced as OpenVZ),
surpassed one million deployments, giving Parallels products the most
deployed container instances in the market. Parallels continues to
ensure the standardization of the next generation virtualization
products by providing key container-based Open Source projects to the
community.
Recent Projects Include:
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CRIU,
the only upstream project with the capability to do live migration for
containers in Linux (including LXC and Docker with recent version 1.3,
a Checkpoint/Restore in User Space project).
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The Parallels sponsored libct
and libcontainer
in the GitHub repository will both be combined so that all major
language bindings become available.
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Collaboration with Google and others to agree on a framework for
container support within the Linux Kernel, which formed the basis for
the current container APIs within the kernel.
For the past decade, service providers have been using container-based
virtualization to give customers greater server density, performance and
scalability. Parallels was instrumental in creating the first container
technology.
“Service providers use containers every day to provide virtual private
servers in managed virtual environments for the most demanding customer
requirements,” said James Bottomley, chief technology officer,
Virtualization, Parallels. “Worldwide, there are thousands of hosting
companies providing over a million containers for use cases ranging from
personal web servers to mission critical environments. In all
probability, if you rent a web server in the cloud, you’ve been relying
on containers to protect and deliver your data.”
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Parallels
Cloud Server is the latest virtualization product from Parallels
and builds upon functionality and benefits provided by Parallels
Virtuozzo Containers. It enables service providers to deliver a
managed virtual compute and storage environment for small- and
medium-sized customers who need more than virtual private servers to
power their businesses. It is the only cloud hosting infrastructure
that includes high-availability servers and high-performance cloud
storage in a single cost-efficient solution. Parallels Cloud Server
container technology maximizes investment in server hardware by
delivering up to three times as many virtual servers as hypervisor
solutions.