Parallels has kicked off an extensive campaign to market its virtualisation software in India.

"Seeing the initial good response from major companies including Tata's and Reliance Communications, we plan to open a full fledged office soon in India to provide better services for our products. We have also appointed Mumbai based Teqdis as our national distributor for our products," announced Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels.

Beloussov explained that Parallel's virtualisation solutions allowed multiple operating systems and applications to run on a single processor. 

"Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. Today’s powerful x86 computer hardware was originally designed to run only a single operating system and a single application, but virtualisation breaks that bond," said Beloussov.

Ravi Pradhan of Teqdis noted that Parallels transformed fully functional corporate desktops into manageable files capable of running on any PC.

"Virtualisation's real benefit lies in its potential to reduce management and support burdens, improve security and reliability, and lower total cost of ownership. Companies are thinking that the equipment that has to be maintained at the desktop can be very simple—a thin client, or it can be a PC that just runs remote desktop access—so they'll save on desktop hardware costs, and maintenance costs, plus they can bring the same kind of availability and functionality to a virtual PC as they did to the [virtual] server," said Pradhan.

It should be noted that Parallels is also marketing its virtual desktop infrastructure software (VDI), which permits call centre employees to access server-hosted virtual machines via a remote desktop protocol. X