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Hiroshi Shibutani
Senior Market Analyst, PC, Mobile & Client Solution, IDC Japan

Team: Client Computing
Japan Mobile and Client Computing Team
Virtualization
Hiroshi Shibutani has more than 19 years of technical experience in the Information and Communication Technology industry. In his role as the Senior Market Analyst of IDC's Japan PC Group, he analyzes and forecasts the virtual client computing (including thin client) market in Japan, and contributes insights towards the worldwide thin client tracker program. In addition, he is closely involved in IDC's research of the PC market in Japan as part of the Japan PC Quarterly Model Analysis product.

Before joining IDC Japan, Mr. Shibutani served at IBM Japan, in a software product development /assurance role, developing a career that spanned over 12 years, which also includes PC technical support. After that, he was with Lenovo Japan responsible for PC sales as a pre sales engineer, serving customers mainly in the telecommunication carrier and newspaper publishing industries.



Mr. Shibutani holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from The University of Electoro-Communication, Japan, and a Master of Business Administration from Bond University, Australia.


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国内クライアント仮想化市場 2012年下半期の分析と2013年~2017年の予測:キャズム越えの衝撃
Hiroshi Shibutani
Apr 2013 - Doc # J13190102      Market Analysis
The content of this document was written in Japanese: 本調査レポートでは、2012年下半期の国内クライアント仮想化市場について分析し、同市場が現在置かれている状況を明確にすると共に、今後の予測を行っている。対象とする市場はシンクライアント市場、クライアント仮想化ソフトウェア市場、クライアント仮想化ソリューション市場である。: IDC Japan PC、携帯端末&クライアントソリューションのシニア ...
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Japan Virtual Client Computing ROI Analysis 2013
Hiroshi Shibutani
Apr 2013 - Doc # JP1574202V      Customer Needs and Strategies
This IDC study, which is a translation of the Japanese document IDC #...
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