Parallels International GmbH is a software company based in Bellevue, Washington.

The company has over 800 employees and offices in 14 countries, including the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Japan, China, Spain, Malta, Australia, and Mauritius[4][5][3] SWSoft, a privately held server automation and virtualization software company, developed software for running data centers, particularly for web-hosting service companies and application service providers.

[6] Their Virtuozzo product was an early system-level server virtualization technology, in 2003, they acquired Plesk, a commercial web hosting platform.

[10] Later the same year, the corporate headquarters moved from Herndon, Virginia, to Renton, Washington.

Parallels was founded by Serg Bell, who was born in the former Soviet Union and later immigrated to Singapore.