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Hitachi, Ltd. has announced a strategic alliance agreement with Amazon Web Services Japan G. K. to help strengthen hybrid cloud solutions.
Based on this Agreement, Hitachi and AWS will strengthen the development of hybrid cloud solutions that they have co-created for the purpose of promoting system modernization and cloud migration for customers over a three-year period starting in April 2024. They will also help to accelerate the deployment of these solutions with the technical support of AWS. Hitachi is also encouraging the Hitachi engineers who have supported these mission-critical systems to acquire AWS certification, aiming to achieve approximately 4,000 holders from the current 2,000 holders. This will accelerate the modernization of existing systems and cloud-service use.
Key Points of the Strategic Alliance Agreement
Realizing flexible data utilization with hybrid clouds
By combining Hitachi's various solutions and AWS' broad and deep cloud services, Hitachi aims to accelerate the creation of free, safe, and secure data utilization within hybrid cloud environments, and Hitachi will promote initiatives to help optimize and automate the operating of shared data infrastructure through on-premise Hitachi Storage and VSP on cloud, building upon previous initiatives.
Additionally, Hitachi will help to strengthen trust, which is considered important for mission-critical systems, by using its "Hitachi Microservices Platform - Paxos Commit Transaction Orchestrator." This platform helps to ensure greater consistency in online transaction processing, particularly in hybrid cloud environments where legacy application assets and cloud-native technologies coexist. Hitachi also aims to allow users to engage with Generative AI to identify causes of failure, consider countermeasures, and promptly solve problems, doing so by linking the SaaS-type Integrated Operation Management "JP1 Cloud Service" and AWS' fully managed service Amazon Bedrock in the future.
Implementation of Joint Promotion
Hitachi and AWS will jointly launch hybrid cloud solutions, which are the results of the two companies' solutions, in the market. The companies share common business goals and will conduct joint promotions, training and events, thereby helping to accelerate corporate system modernization and AWS use.
Enhancing the support system for building and operating hybrid cloud solutions
Hitachi aims to reach about 4,000 holders of AWS certification, centering on the Hitachi engineers with experience in building and operating systems.
Hitachi engineers who hold AWS certification develop and provide hybrid cloud solutions and SRE engineers, who are specialized in operating cloud systems, delivering a managed service called "Hitachi Application Reliability Centers" (HARC), which helps to improve the customers' system operation.
By combining Hitachi's hybrid cloud solutions with HARC, these engineers will help to contribute to clients' business transformation by supporting solutions to diverse problems that come up in all phases, ranging from modernization of existing systems to introduction and operation of AWS services. Hitachi will also support the stable operation of client systems in hybrid environments by facilitating the provision of support services for mission-critical core systems vertically integrated from hardware to middleware, cultivated on-premise until now, and also in AWS environments.
Hitachi will continue to strengthen collaboration with AWS to realize a hybrid cloud environment in which incorporates corporate data, including highly confidential data, and can be used safely, securely, and seamlessly in a variety of cloud services, thereby supporting customers' data-driven management and contribute to sustainable growth.