The hardware producer HP and the software company that offers world's leading OS virtualization solution - Parallels formed a partnership to work on HP’s Z800 virtualization capabilities. The companies said that workstation can be configured with Parallels’ Workstation 4.0 Extreme offering to offer high-end virtualization capabilities. Parallels’ virtualization solution takes advantage of virtualization technology of Intel’s new Xeon 5500 Series “Nehalem EP” processors, inside each HP Z800.

HP and Parallels made the announcement on June 1. They will include Nvidia’s SLI Multi-OS-enabled Quadro FX graphics cards. The Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov said that the workstation that will be offered as a configure-to-order solution from HP, is a key step in bringing high-end virtualization capabilities to the workstation space.

“After several years of deep technical engineering collaboration by HP, Intel, Nvidia and Parallels, the vision of delivering virtual workstations to the market is now a reality,” Beloussov said in a statement.HP,