Oracle announced today that Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to migrate its critical enterprise systems to the cloud. By using Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and Oracle Exadata Database Service, the company has achieved a quick and reliable migration of its key systems, including accounting, development, production, design, sales, spare parts, exports, human resources, and services.
Hitachi Construction Machinery, known for developing, manufacturing, selling, renting, and servicing equipment such as hydraulic excavators and wheel loaders, is undergoing a digital transformation process to unify the data from its critical systems and construction equipment. This cloud migration is part of its strategy to prepare for future implementation of artificial intelligence (AI).
Hitachi’s choice of OCI was due to its ability to enable a secure migration without significant changes to existing applications. Moreover, the company has reduced infrastructure operating costs by 20%, improved business continuity, and increased flexibility to adapt to business growth and changes. Online transaction processing performance has improved by 50%, while batch processing has improved by 60% in several key systems.
“OCI is the only public cloud that can securely migrate critical databases running on Oracle Exadata and VMware virtualization environments without the need for configuration changes, reducing costs. Other clouds would have increased our costs due to the need to rebuild applications,” said Noriko Momoki, Senior Officer and President of Hitachi Construction Machinery’s DX Promotion Group. “The performance increase has significantly improved business processing time, reducing operational and management tasks, allowing our IT department to focus on new projects to strengthen our competitiveness.”
Hitachi Construction Machinery is migrating approximately 500 virtual servers from a local VMware virtualization environment and 100 databases to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI. This migration will enable the company to benefit from a better architecture, enhanced automation, higher performance, availability, data security configurations, and optimized costs without making changes to applications. Additionally, Hitachi is deploying a new disaster recovery environment using Oracle Cloud regions in Tokyo and Osaka to strengthen business continuity.
“Organizations across industries worldwide have realized that migrating to the cloud can help accelerate digital transformation,” said Ashish Ray, Vice President of Critical Database Technologies at Oracle. “Exadata Database Service and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution on OCI allow Hitachi Construction Machinery to swiftly and reliably migrate critical systems to the cloud, harness the economic benefits of the cloud, and meet high performance expectations of customers and employees.”
Hitachi Construction Machinery plans to modernize applications to OCI’s native infrastructure and migrate the remaining databases from on-premises environments. By consolidating its enterprise data on OCI to develop a DX platform, the company aims to leverage multicloud and AI capabilities.