Red Hat drives Hitachi's transformation to AI-driven enterprise with Red Hat OpenShift AI

Japanese giant Hitachi, known for acting with excellence and proactivity in various sectors of the global economy, has just taken a big step towards its immersion in the AI Age by partnering with Red Hat.Using Red Hat OpenShift, the global leader in digital innovation and sustainable solutions has built and deployed a comprehensive, mature and enterprise-wide internal AI platform, redefining what it means to be a manufacturing colossus in the modern era.

As a pillar of Hitachi's digital transformation, the company's internal platform uses Red Hat OpenShift AI (Red Hat's solution to build, train, deploy, and monitor generative (gen AI) and predictive AI models at scale in the hybrid cloud & TO drive high-performance, mission-critical workloads.The platform's implementation reach is just one aspect of its success, it also acts as Hitachi's governance framework, helping ensure the ethical and efficient use of artificial intelligence across the multinational conglomerate.

Operationalization through Red Hat OpenShift AI has enabled the platform to become the centerpiece of more than 250 active enterprise projects, spanning both information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) areas.Since its implementation, Hitachi has reported improvements in call center efficiency, acceleration in the development of critical systems, and strengthening collaboration across the organization.

While the platform is intended for internal operations, Hitachi sees its success as the foundation for exponential growth of AI across its ecosystem.The company is exploring the external use of Red Hat OpenShift AI for business development, a sign of the strategic importance of AI as competitors and partners incorporate the technology into their operations.

Red Hat vision: any model, any accelerator, any cloud

The future of AI must be defined by unlimited opportunities and not constrained by infrastructure silos.Red Hat sees a horizon where organizations can deploy any model, on any accelerator, in any cloud, delivering an exceptional and more consistent user experience, at no exorbitant cost.To unlock the true potential of gen AI investments, companies need a universal inference platform & a new standard for continuous, high-performance AI innovations, both now and in the years to come.