What Happened?
Renton, WA-based Parallels has Appointed as James Bottomley as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Parallels is a global leader in hosting and cloud services enablement and cross-platform solutions. Hosting and Cloud Enablement Parallels makes it easier for service providers to grow and profit with innovative service delivery software, expertise, and a robust partner ecosystem. More than 9,000 service providers rely on Parallels to deliver thousands of applications and cloud services to more than 10 million SMBs in 130+ countries. Cross-Platform Solutions Parallels products make it possible and simple for consumers and businesses to run and access applications they need on the hardware they want. Parallels Desktop for Mac, the award-winning and No. 1-selling desktop virtualization software with 90 percent market share. Parallels Desktop empowers enterprises, businesses, and consumers to run Windows and Mac applications side-by-side on a Mac -- without rebooting. Parallels Access, our newest product, lets you access Windows and Mac apps from your iPad, with native gestures. Additionally, Parallels Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) enterprise solutions includes the Parallels Management Suite plug-in for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), to manage Macs and PCs with ease. A fast-growing software company with 900+ employees across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, Parallels began operations in 2000 and has 800 partnerships including Microsoft, Apple, and Intel. Visit www.Parallels.com for more about our company, products and career opportunities.
About the Person
James Bottomley is CTO of Server Virtualisation at Parallels and Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, PA-RISC Linux and the 53c700 set of drivers. He has made contributions in the areas of x86 architecture and SMP, filesystems, storage and memory management and coherency. He is currently a Director on the Board of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. He was born and grew up in the United Kingdom. He went to university at Cambridge in 1985 for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He joined AT&T Bell labs in 1995 to work on Distributed Lock Manager technology for clustering. In 1997 he moved to the LifeKeeper High Availability project. In 2000 he helped found SteelEye Technology, Inc as Software Architect and later as Vice President and CTO. He joined Novell in 2008 as a Distinguished Engineer at Novell's SUSE Labs and Parallels in 2011.
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