Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. has officially selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to migrate its large-scale, mission-critical business systems for accounting, development, production, design, sales, parts, export, human resources, and services. According to certain reports, with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI now at its disposal, Hitachi can expect to achieve fast and reliable cloud migration with minimal changes to applications and databases from previous on-premises environments. More on why Hitachi picked OCI for the job would reveal how the latter enabled a safe and secure migration strategy without requiring application changes. Furthermore, the choice also ensures improved business continuity and a reduced total cost of ownership (TCO). You see, by moving to the cloud, Hitachi Construction Machinery has quickly and dynamically scaled its resources, increased flexibility as its business grows and changes, while simultaneously laying the means to cut back on its infrastructure operating costs by almost 20 percent. On top of that, the company would also improve upon its online transaction processing performance, and batch processing performance by 60 percent on several core business systems. Moving an estimated sum of 500 virtual servers from an on-premises VMware virtualization environment and 100 databases to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI, the maneuver will, all in all, allow Hitachi to access better architecture, enhanced automation, improved availability, data security configurations, and a more viable financial infrastructure. To go with that, the company will also implement a new disaster recovery environment, something that strengthen business resilience in the long run.
“Organizations across all industries worldwide have realized that moving to the cloud can help them accelerate digital transformation,” said Ashish Ray, vice president of Mission-Critical Database Technologies at Oracle. “Exadata Database Service and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution on OCI enable Hitachi Construction Machinery to quickly and reliably migrate mission-critical systems to the cloud, capture the cloud’s economic benefits, and deliver on high-performance expectations from customers and employees. Both these services extend on-premises environments with cloud elasticity and leverage existing knowledge, skills, processes, and tooling — and having both applications and databases on OCI simplifies operations and increases performance.”
Making the whole runner even more important is, of course, Hitachi’s existing infrastructure. Basically, at present, the company is known for developing, manufacturing, selling, renting, and servicing hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, road equipment, and mining equipment. Hitachi’s excellence in what it does can be understood once you consider it currently has more than 400,000 units of construction equipment in operation across the world. As for the future, Hitachi will modernize applications to cloud-native OCI and transport its remaining databases from on-premises environments. This, in turn, should enable it to leverage multicloud and AI capabilities down the line.
“OCI is the only public cloud that can securely migrate mission-critical databases running on Oracle Exadata and VMware virtualization environments since we can migrate quickly without configuration changes and reduce costs. Other clouds would have increased our costs due to having to rebuild applications,” said Noriko Momoki, senior officer and president, DX Promotion Group, Hitachi Construction Machinery. “The increased performance has significantly improved business processing time while reducing operational and management tasks, meaning our IT department can now focus on new projects to strengthen our business competitiveness.”
