Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly referred to as HP, is a technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United
States. HP has its United States offices at the former old Compaq Campus in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, Latin America
offices in Miami-Dade County, Florida, U.S. , Europe offices in Geneva, and Asia-Pacific offices in Singapore. HP is the largest
technology company in the world and operates in nearly every country.
Parallels, Inc. is a privately-held virtualization technology company with offices in the USA, Germany, UK, France, Japan,
China, Russia and Ukraine. Parallels' US offices are in Seattle, WA and Herndon, VA. The company has more than 900 employees
as of 2008. Parallels, Inc. was an SWsoft company until January, 2008; each company operated as a separate entity and maintained
its own distinct branding.
SWsoft was a privately held server automation and virtualization software company and the parent company of Parallels, Inc.
SWsoft developed software for running data centers, particularly for web-hosting services companies, application service providers,
and managed service providers. SWsoft products included applications for operating system-level virtualization, which enables
users to run multiple operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris, on a single computer.
HP Technology Solutions Group (TSG) is one of three business segments of Palo Alto based Hewlett-Packard Company Hewlett-Packard.
It is based in Palo Alto, and has over 100,000 employees with a turnover of $37.7 billion USD in 2007.