Centralized IT Management
In centralized IT management, a single IT department oversees all IT resources, services, and functions. This includes network management, O&M, security, compliance audits, identity and permission control, and public resource management for different business units. This model boosts IT management efficiency and consistency while cutting operation costs. Business units do not need to deploy or maintain infrastructure, speeding up service cloudification.
Centralized IT management lets a central IT department manage and coordinate IT resources, services, and functions across business units. This model is crucial in today's fast-paced IT development. Centralizing IT functions helps enterprises improve management efficiency and consistency and cut operation costs. In centralized IT management, the central IT department (or CCoE) can manage multiple business units in these areas:
- Centralized network management: The central IT department plans, deploys, and maintains the enterprise's cloud network infrastructure, including Direct Connect, Enterprise Router, VPN, Cloud Connect, NAT Gateway, and VPC. This unifies, stabilizes, and secures the network across the enterprise, preventing inconsistency and potential security risks that arise from network management by various business units. In addition, unified network management improves data transmission and ensures smooth information flow between departments.
- Centralized O&M management: Services like AOM and COC provide unified monitoring and O&M management across accounts. This allows the central IT department to handle the O&M of cloud resources for all business units. We set up standardized O&M processes and specifications to centrally handle performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and upgrades for cloud resources. This approach sets unified O&M standards, boosts efficiency, and cuts costs.
- Centralized security management: Network security is the top priority in enterprise operations. SecMaster allows the central IT department to manage security for all business units. It handles cloud assets, security situations, information and events, orchestration, and automated responses. Centralized security management keeps security policies consistent, prevents network attacks and data leaks, and safeguards core assets.
- Centralized compliance audit: Compliance is now a major concern for enterprises due to new information security rules and industry standards. The central IT department manages and audits each business unit's cloud resources to meet national, industry, and enterprise standards using the multi-account audit function of services like CTS and Config. This lowers compliance risks and avoids legal issues and reputational damage from non-compliance.
- Centralized identity and permission management: The central IT department manages Huawei Cloud users, sets up single sign-on (SSO) with the enterprise's identity system, and controls user access to accounts by using the multi-account identity management and access control function of IAM Identity Center. The administrator creates users, sets passwords, and manages users by group. Centralized permission management strengthens user permission control to block unauthorized access and secure the system.
- Public resource management: The central IT department deploys and manages public IT resources like DNS servers, container image repositories, CA authorities, and cloud disks. Centralized management prevents redundant building and wasted resources, boosts resource utilization, and reduces procurement and maintenance costs.
Centralized management in all these aspects improves IT efficiency and consistency for enterprises. First, it standardizes processes and specifications, making IT work more organized and transparent. This reduces errors and security issues that arise from loose management. Second, the central IT team has strong technical skills and extensive experience, and can bring in advanced technologies and best practices to offer top-notch IT support for enterprises.
Centralized IT management lowers operation costs effectively. Enterprises can get better prices and cut extra costs through unified resource planning and bulk purchasing. Centralized O&M and management improve human resource allocation and prevent waste from separate business unit management. In this way, enterprises can get more efficient and reliable IT services without spending more money.
Centralized IT management can speed up IT project delivery for each business unit. The central IT department has set up comprehensive infrastructure and service frameworks. This allows business units to quickly integrate and deploy new systems or applications as needed, avoiding duplicate setup and debugging. Business units can put more efforts and resources to their core business growth. This division of labor lets business units react faster to market needs, speed up product and service innovation, and boost market competitiveness.
However, implementing centralized IT management requires enterprises to adjust their organizational structure, management model, and culture. First, enterprises should set up clear management systems and processes. They must define roles and responsibilities between the central IT department and business units. Smooth communication between them is essential. Second, the central IT department should have a service-focused mindset and be flexible to offer tailored support and solutions for each business unit's needs. Finally, executives must pay close attention and provide strong support to centralized IT management to remove implementation hurdles.
In summary, centralized IT management meets the needs of modern enterprise growth. Centralizing IT resources, services, and functions in the IT department improves efficiency and consistency, reduces operation costs, and boosts competitiveness. Each business unit can focus on its core business without handling infrastructure deployment or O&M. This speeds up cloud adoption and boosts business development and innovation. Enterprises should plan strategically when setting up centralized IT management. They need to balance every party's needs and use centralized management to build a strong foundation for long-term growth.
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