Japan's Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. is migrating its large-scale systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
The company will migrate its systems for accounting, development, production, design, sales, parts, export, human resources, and services to OCI from on-premise.
Hitachi Construction Machinery will be using the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI, and is part of the company's digital transformation effort which aims to move to the public cloud to prepare for future AI implementation.
According to the company, the cloud migration has reduced its infrastructure operating costs by 20 percent, online transaction processing performance has improved by 50 percent, and batch processing performance by 60 percent on several core business systems.
“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, at 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.”
“Organizations across all industries worldwide have realized that moving to the cloud can help them accelerate digital transformation,” added Ashish Ray, vice president for 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."
In total, Hitachi Construction Machinery will be migrating 500 virtual servers from an on-premises VMware environment and 100 databases to OCI. The company is also using Oracle Cloud's Tokyo and Osaka regions as a disaster recovery environment.
The company plans to modernize applications to cloud-native OCI and migrate its remaining databases from on-premises environments.
Hitachi Construction Machinery was founded in 1970 and develops, manufactures, sells, rents, and services hydraulic excavators, wheel loads, road equipment, and mining equipment, and has more than 400,000 units of equipment in operation worldwide. It is a subsidiary of the Hitachi Group, of which many of its companies have standing relationships with Oracle.
