Automate Reliability.
Engineer Resilience.
Prove Outcomes.

Operations at scale can’t rely on manual effort. As enterprises move from automation to autonomy, operations must evolve into intelligent, AI-enabled systems that can detect, decide, and act in real time.

Hitachi Digital Services’ HARC platform combines Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with automation, observability, and FinOps controls, creating an AI-enabled operations layer that continuously optimizes performance, reliability, and cost. The result: cloud environments that are not just monitored, but actively managed, self-optimizing, and engineered for always-on reliability with measurable outcomes.

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Automate Reliability.  Engineer Resilience.Prove Outcomes.
Challenge & Opportunity

Break Free from Reactive Operations

Traditional operations models buckle under the pressure of scale, complex multi-cloud environments, and business demands for speed. Manual firefighting drains resources and risks downtime. The opportunity is to move from reactive support to predictive, AI-enabled operations where reliability is engineered, issues are resolved before impact, and systems continuously improve.

Solution
Run Smarter with Automation-First Reliability
The Hitachi Application Reliability Center (HARC) is our flagship engine for engineering-led operations. It acts as the AI-enabled run layer of the cloud operating model, combining SRE, automation, observability, and FinOps to deliver predictive, self-optimizing operations at scale – transforming reactive support into continuously optimized performance, resilience, and cost control.

Engineer Reliability into Everyday Operations

Embed site reliability principles into operations to improve uptime, reduce incidents, and align engineering teams to measurable service performance and reliability outcomes.

Engineer Reliability into Everyday Operations
  • Service Objectives
    Define and manage SLOs and error budgets to guide reliability improvements.
  • Shift-Left Reliability
    Embed reliability into DevOps workflows to prevent issues earlier in development.
  • Engineering Ownership
    Align teams with clear accountability for service performance and reliability outcomes.
  • Performance Discipline
    Use metrics-driven practices to continuously improve system stability and uptime.

Move from Reactive Support to Predictive Operations

Apply automation and AI-driven insights to detect issues earlier, reduce noise, and accelerate resolution through intelligent event correlation and automated remediation.

Move from Reactive Support to Predictive Operations
  • Alerts As Code
    Standardize alerts and automate responses to reduce manual intervention and delays.
  • Automated Remediation
    Resolve incidents faster with predefined workflows and automated response actions.
  • AI Root Cause
    Use AI-driven analysis to identify root causes and reduce repeat incidents.
  • Event Correlation
    Reduce noise by correlating events and prioritizing critical issues for faster resolution.
  • Predictive Insights
    Anticipate failures early using machine learning and historical operational data patterns.

Deliver Real-Time Visibility Across Every Environment

Standardize observability using reusable templates, unified dashboards, and anomaly detection to provide consistent, real-time insight across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Deliver Real-Time Visibility Across Every Environment
  • Monitoring Templates
    Standardize monitoring across services using reusable templates for consistency and speed.
  • Unified Dashboards
    Provide centralized visibility across systems, applications, and cloud environments in real time.
  • Anomaly Detection
    Detect performance issues early with automated anomaly detection and alerting systems.
  • Full Visibility
    Gain end-to-end observability across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure environments.

Align Cost, Performance, and Reliability Continuously

Integrate financial accountability into operations by detecting anomalies, automating optimization, and aligning performance and availability with cost efficiency across environments.

Align Cost, Performance, and Reliability Continuously
  • Spend Monitoring
    Detect and respond to cloud spend anomalies in real time.
  • Rightsizing Automation
    Automate resource optimization to reduce waste and improve efficiency continuously.
  • Cost Alignment
    Align cost, performance, and availability with business and operational priorities.
  • Continuous Optimization
    Improve cost efficiency through ongoing monitoring and automated optimization workflows.

Build Systems that Adapt and Sustain Performance

Build resilient architectures using testing, automation, and recovery strategies to ensure continuous availability and rapid recovery across regions, platforms, and failure scenarios.

Build Systems that Adapt and Sustain Performance
  • Chaos Testing
    Validate system resilience through controlled failure simulations across environments and services.
  • Self-Healing Systems
    Enable automated recovery mechanisms to restore services quickly after disruptions.
  • High Availability
    Design systems to maintain uptime across regions, platforms, and infrastructure layers.
  • Recovery Frameworks
    Implement SLA-aligned recovery strategies to ensure consistent performance and uptime.
Customer Story

Raiffeisen Bank: Banking in the Cloud

Enhanced digital banking experiences through scalable, cloud-based innovation.

Raiffeisen Bank: Banking in the Cloud
Customer Story

Aegon Life Accelerates Cloud Modernization

Migration to AWS Cloud improves reliability, security, and agility.

Aegon Life Accelerates Cloud Modernization
Customer Story

Portfolio Plus - Open banking services with cloud migration

Meeting customer demand for SaaS-based open banking services.

Portfolio Plus - Open banking services with cloud migration
Customer Story

Worldwide Incident Command Services (WICS): Emergency services in the cloud

Migrating a critical emergency response management platform to cloud.

Worldwide Incident Command Services (WICS): Emergency services in the cloud
How We Work

We embed automation, reliability, and cost-efficiency into operations.

 

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Reliability by design, automation at scale.
Why Hitachi Digital Services

Reliability by design, automation at scale.

HARC is the operational backbone of the cloud environment, integrating reliability, performance, and cost control into one continuous system.

  • Automated incident response and RCA
  • Always-on observability across platforms
  • Productivity increase with engineering-led RunOps
  • Faster issue detection and resolution with automation
  • Integrated FinOps + SRE for cost and performance optimization
Our Experts Our Experts
Our Experts
Prem Balasubramanian
Prem Balasubramanian
CTO, Hitachi Digital Services
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Shrinath Venkatsubramaniam
Shrinath Venkatsubramaniam
Senior Director HARC
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Marimuthu Muthusamy
Marimuthu Muthusamy
VP, HARC
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INSIGHTS

AI-Driven Cloud Operations with HARC for Intelligent Reliability Insights

AI-Driven Cloud Operations with HARC for Intelligent Reliability

Adopt a Modern Cloud Management Operating Model: How Hitachi’s Application Reliability Center (HARC) Solves the Problem Insights

Adopt a Modern Cloud Management Operating Model: How Hitachi’s Application Reliability Center (HARC) Solves the Problem

Cloud Cost Optimization with FinOps for Business Value and Control Insights

Cloud Cost Optimization with FinOps for Business Value and Control

FAQ

HARC is the Hitachi Application Reliability Center, our automation-first reliability platform. It applies SRE principles, AIOps, and observability-as-code to improve uptime, productivity, and cost-efficiency across multi-cloud environments.

By shifting reliability left into engineering pipelines and automating incident resolution, HARC removes repetitive toil. In one case, a pharmaceutical client doubled productivity while cutting resolution times by 30%.

Yes. By integrating FinOps into reliability, HARC not only reduces downtime costs but also eliminates waste and right-sizes resources, delivering up to 20% savings across multi-cloud environments.

HARC improves cloud reliability by combining SRE, automation, observability, and AI-driven operations into a single run layer. It helps teams define service level objectives, detect issues earlier, automate remediation, and continuously improve performance across cloud environments.

Traditional managed services often focus on reactive support and manual operations. HARC takes an engineering-led approach, embedding automation, AIOps, observability, and SRE practices into operations so environments become more predictive, resilient, and efficient over time.

Yes. HARC is designed to provide unified visibility, automation, and reliability management across hybrid and multi-cloud estates. It helps organizations standardize operations, improve incident response, and maintain consistent performance across different cloud platforms and environments.