and Parallels Workstation for Windows and Linux 2.0 was released, with Parallels Desktop for Mac following in mid 2006. SWsoft's acquisition of Parallels was more or less kept under wraps until January 2004, two years before Parallels became mainstream. Their Virtuozzo product was an early system-level server virtualization solution, and in 2003 they bought Plesk, a commercial web hosting platform.
Privately held server automation and virtualization software company SWSoft developed software for running data centers, particularly for web-hosting services companies and application service providers.
The company has offices in 15 countries, including the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Japan, China, Spain, Russia, Australia and Ukraine, and has over 800 employees. Parallels is a software company based in Bellevue, Washington it is primarily involved in the development of virtualization software for macOS.
