<p>RENTON, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Parallels, a leading hosting and cloud services enablement provider, announced its partners have exceeded one million installed seats across Microsoft Exchange and Office 365. The growth of business class e-mail seats powered by Parallels software, increasing at a rate of 72 percent year-over-year from December 2012, shows the growing demand among small to medium businesses (SMBs) for a comprehensive portfolio of cloud solutions to help increase IT efficiency.</p><p>Anticipating this growth, Parallels, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, has been collaborating with Microsoft since 2007 to help telecom companies, domain hosting providers, distributors, managed service providers and VARs to deliver best-in-class, Microsoft-based cloud services for SMBs that constitute a significant portion of this growing market.</p><p>With Parallels, service providers are able to increase IT support for SMBs using Exchange and Office 365, as well as Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft SQL and Microsoft CRM. By surpassing 1 million installed seats across the Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 platforms, Parallels solidifies its position as one of Microsoft's top cloud management partners, and an industry leader that empowers hosters and service providers with the ability to quickly and efficiently offer scalable enterprise-grade services.</p><p>Solutions for a Growing Market</p><p><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140204005632/en/Parallels-Enables-Million-Microsoft-Cloud-Services-Subscribers">Keep reading...</a></p>