Hitachi and Google Cloud have formed a multi-year partnership to "accelerate" enterprise innovation and productivity with generative AI.
Hitachi will form a new business unit focused on helping businesses solve industry challenges with Gemini models, Vertex AI, and other cloud technologies, and will also adopt Google Cloud’s AI to enhance its own products and services.
"Through the partnership Hitachi will further accelerate growth of Lumada, our core digital business, and will advance operational efficiencies for the Hitachi Group," said Hitachi.
Led by GlobalLogic, a digital engineering firm owned by Hitachi Group, the companies will establish the Hitachi Google Cloud Business Unit and the Google Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) to scale Google Cloud technology to new and existing enterprise customers.
Additionally, Hitachi will collaborate with Google Cloud to incorporate training on Google Cloud’s GenAI as part of Hitachi’s GenAI Professional training programme. The programme will deepen the expertise and managed services available, that will ensure large-scale organisations have access to the resources needed to "fundamentally improve" how they operate with AI, the partners said.
Solutions will be compatible with Virtual Storage Platform One, so that users can build GenAI applications using data stored on Hitachi Vantara’s hybrid cloud platform.
Hitachi and Google Cloud will also better align their sales, marketing, and engineering teams, to ensure that customers across industries have access to the resources needed to optimally deploy and manage GenAI projects through the Hitachi Google Cloud Business Unit and Google Cloud CoE.
Hitachi says it will train more than 50,000 GenAI professionals through its global training programme.
"By augmenting the capabilities of our developers and customer success units with Google Cloud GenAI solutions, such as Vertex AI and Gemini models, Hitachi will be able to better serve the needs of its customers in diverse industries and across complex domains such as energy, mobility, manufacturing and digital services,” said Toshiaki Tokunaga, executive vice president and executive officer at Hitachi.
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, added: “Our partnership with Hitachi will provide customers with the resources needed to optimally build, implement, and manage every stage of their generative AI projects.”
