Vendor Refresh · Virtuozzo · August 2026 I wrote a post in 2011 pointing hosting and cloud providers at Parallels Automation as the fastest path to a Microsoft Hyper-V cloud service — automated provisioning, subscription billing, control panels, the whole turnkey stack. Every link in that post is dead now, and so is the product line it described. But the company behind it didn't disappear. It split. The Split Nobody Explained at the Time In December 2015, Parallels broke into two separate companies. The automation and billing business — the actual subject of my 2011 post — had already been renamed Odin that March, and Ingram Micro bought it for $163.9 million the same December. Odin became the CloudBlue brand in 2018. If you want that side of the story, including CloudBlue's own recent change of hands, the CloudBlue side of that split has its own recent story worth a separate read. The other half — the ...
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