The startup that ’s get ahead notoriety for convey Microsoft ’s Windows OS to the Macintosh platform is expand its client hit through a new partnership with its first U.S. distributor .
Parallels , which provides virtualization software for running Windows on Apple ’s Intel - ground Mac hardware , has struck a sight with Tech Data unveiled this calendar week .
Under the full term of the agreement , Tech Data will leave Parallels software and tools to several markets , let in the Department of Education and government activity verticals , as well as Fortune 500 and modest to midsize businesses .
Benjamin Rudolph , merchandising manager for Parallels in Renton , Washington , said Tech Data will be the troupe ’s main distribution spouse in the U.S. although the company already process with distributors in 62 area , such as Avanquest Software in Europe .
Tech Data , in Clearwater , Florida , is a Fortune 500 globose distributor of IT products , with more than 90,000 client in more than 100 countries . The party play with many of the top hardware and software vendor , including IBM , Microsoft , and Hewlett - Packard .
Parallels already has human relationship with U.S. reseller better half , but now Tech Data will manage those relationship , Rudolph allege . Parallels also hopes to win unexampled resellers and customers through such an auspicious partnership , he add .
“ [ Tech Data ] will start leveraging their internet to bring qualified resellers into the Parallels family , ” Rudolph said . “ They ’re pros . They are a multibillion - dollar companionship and really get laid their stuff and nonsense . ”
For having only been around for less than a twelvemonth and a one-half — Parallels open its doors in July 2005 — the company has gotten a substantial amount of press for its Parallels Desktop for Mac virtualization computer software that enables Mac users to scat Windows on Mac OS X.
Rudolph suppose that while the company sells about several thousand copies a month of both its flagship Parallels Workstation for Windows and Linux mathematical product and its Mac product , the latter is unquestionably the more popular of the two products .
analog currently has about 85 employee , but is adding several hoi polloi a week to the fellowship , Rudolph said .
