Case Study: Hitachi speeds development environment setup from days to minutes with Microsoft Azure and Red Hat OpenShift

Hitachi speeds dev environment setup from days to minutes by using Red Hat OpenShift on Azure

The customer, Hitachi, a major Japanese conglomerate, required a faster and more consistent way to set up complex development environments for its IT services division. They needed a solution to speed up software innovation and reduce the time and skill required to provision infrastructure for their proprietary Hitachi Application Framework.

Microsoft implemented a solution using Azure IaaS, including Virtual Machines, Storage, and Virtual Network, to run the Hitachi Application Framework on Red Hat OpenShift. This provided the customer with a standardized, automated cloud platform. The results were significant; infrastructure setup time was reduced from three-to-four days to just 20 minutes, and container deployment took only seconds. This automation provided by Microsoft Azure ensured consistent results and greatly streamlined the development process.

Hitachi

Yuji Hirose

Head of Service Provisioning Department, Service Solution Operation