A basic screen grab of the interactive Cloud Hosting Blueprint graphic on the Parallels website. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and cloud software provider Parallels ( www.parallels.com ) announced on Thursday that it has launched its free Cloud Service Provider Blueprint – a kind of theoretical map of cloud hosting services, and a collection of directions and best practices for service providers on how to best offer cloud services – accompanied a free white paper. Located on the Parallels website , the Cloud Hosting Blueprint includes an interactive graphic that lays out the company’s vision for cloud services – how it sees them as being divided, and what systems it considers critical to supporting them.






