“Mariko-san,” he said, turning off the old server’s humming fan. “In America, a desktop hypervisor is freedom. In Japan, it’s an excuse.”
“The board wants a report by Friday,” said Mariko, his new project manager. She held a tablet showing a Gartner quadrant. “They’ve heard about this ‘desktop hypervisor’ trend in the US. They want to know if Japan is ready.” japan desktop hypervisor market
The big vendors—VMware, Microsoft, even the open-source champions of VirtualBox—had tried for a decade. They sold security, efficiency, power savings. But Japanese IT managers always asked the same question: “When the host OS blue-screens and the guest VMs lose data, do you take the blame in front of my president?” “Mariko-san,” he said, turning off the old server’s