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Reliable IT infrastructure and application support that keeps your business running

Reduce downtime, improve operational efficiency and scale with confidence — proactive infrastructure management, application support, cloud operations and enterprise IT services delivered by experienced professionals.

99.95%Uptime targets
24×7Monitoring
L1–L3Support tiers
GlobalDelivery
Overview

Keeping mission-critical systems running

Modern businesses rely on highly available applications, secure infrastructure and responsive IT operations. Every minute of downtime affects productivity, customer experience and revenue.

Cubicent provides comprehensive infrastructure and application support that helps organisations maintain stable, secure and scalable technology environments. Our teams work as an extension of your IT department — delivering proactive monitoring, issue resolution, maintenance, cloud administration and continuous improvement.

Whether we support on-premise environments, hybrid infrastructure or cloud-native applications, you stay focused on innovation while we ensure operational excellence behind the scenes.

At a glance

What this service covers

  • 24×7 infrastructure monitoring & alerting
  • Tiered L1–L3 application support
  • Cloud operations on Azure, AWS & GCP
  • Network & database administration
  • Patch, backup & disaster recovery
  • ITIL-aligned service desk
Built to deliver
24×7
monitoring & response
99.95%
uptime targets
L1–L3
tiered support
RTO/RPO
recovery drills
The challenge

Why this work is harder than it looks.

Four pressures every IT leader recognises — and what they cost when left unmanaged.

01

Growing IT complexity

As organisations adopt cloud platforms, hybrid environments and distributed applications, managing infrastructure becomes increasingly complex.

02

Downtime risks

Unexpected outages lead to financial loss, productivity disruption and customer dissatisfaction.

03

Talent shortages

Hiring and retaining experienced infrastructure specialists is expensive and slow.

04

Escalating costs

Maintaining internal around-the-clock support teams steadily increases operational expense.

How Cubicent helps

From pressure to predictable output.

We operate as an extension of your IT function across three connected modes.

Proactive operations

Continuous monitoring of servers, networks, endpoints and cloud workloads, with alert triage that resolves issues before users feel an impact.

Responsive support

A tiered service desk that logs, prioritises and resolves incidents fast, with clean escalation and SLAs you can hold us to.

Continuous improvement

Root-cause analysis, automation and capacity planning that make the environment more stable and efficient over time.

Detailed offerings

Everything this practice delivers.

Eight capability areas, delivered to your runbooks and standards.

Infrastructure Monitoring

  • 24/7 monitoring
  • Capacity planning
  • Performance optimisation
  • Server health

Application Support

  • Incident management
  • Problem management
  • Bug tracking
  • L2/L3 support

Cloud Operations

  • Azure, AWS, GCP
  • Migration
  • Monitoring
  • Cost optimisation

Network Administration

  • Routers & firewalls
  • VPN
  • LAN/WAN
  • Security

Database Administration

  • SQL Server, Oracle
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Performance tuning
  • Backups

Patch Management

  • OS updates
  • Application updates
  • Firmware
  • Compliance

Backup & Recovery

  • Automated backups
  • Disaster recovery
  • Business continuity
  • Restore testing

Service Desk

  • ITIL aligned
  • Ticket handling
  • End-user support
  • Knowledge management
Industries served

Depth across the sectors we support.

We adapt to the conventions, compliance needs and vocabulary of each industry we work with.

Banking
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Retail
Insurance
Technology
Telecommunications
Energy
Government
Education
What you receive

Concrete artefacts, not just activity.

Every engagement produces tangible deliverables you can hold, review and build on — here is what lands in your hands.

SLA dashboard

A live view of tickets, response times and uptime against the targets in your agreement.

Monthly service report

Trends, incidents, root causes and improvement actions, summarised for your stakeholders.

Runbook library

Documented procedures for your environment, so support is repeatable and never person-dependent.

Knowledge base

A growing store of fixes and how-tos that speeds resolution and new-joiner onboarding.

Delivery methodology

A proven path from kickoff to steady state.

A structured transition that de-risks handover and reaches stable operations quickly.

Assess

We map your environment, tools, risks and priorities.

Transition

Access, runbooks and tooling are set up with zero disruption.

Knowledge Transfer

We absorb your conventions, escalation paths and tribal knowledge.

Steady State

Monitoring and support run to agreed SLAs and cadence.

Continuous Improvement

Automation, tuning and reporting raise stability over time.

Technology & tools

We work across the tools your team already uses.

Representative platforms our engineers operate across — we adopt your stack, not the other way around.

ServiceNowJira Service ManagementNagiosZabbixDatadogMicrosoft AzureAWSGoogle CloudVMwareActive DirectorySQL ServerOracleMySQLPostgreSQLPowerShellBash
Security & compliance

Your data is handled with care, by default.

Confidentiality is the posture, not an add-on. Engagement-specific controls are agreed up front.

Access & identity

Least-privilege, role-based access and named accounts, with credentials handled under NDA and revoked cleanly at offboarding.

Patch & vulnerability hygiene

Scheduled patching with testing and rollback closes the gaps that outages and ransomware exploit.

Backup & DR assurance

Backups are verified, not just configured, with periodic restore drills against agreed RTO and RPO.

Monitoring & audit trails

Activity is logged and reviewable, supporting your compliance and incident-response needs.

Engagement models

Engage us the way the work arrives.

Start with one model and move between them as your needs change. See the Support Models page for detail.

Per Project

A defined deliverable, scoped and fixed-priced up front — the simplest way to start.

Dedicated Team / FTE

Full-time resources ring-fenced for you, working inside your process and tools.

Retainer / Hourly

A monthly block of hours drawn down as work arrives — ideal for variable demand.

Per Unit

Priced per table, slide, image or ticket — the most efficient model at high volume.

Why Cubicent

An honest comparison with going it alone.

How a Cubicent engagement compares with an in-house team.

Considerationan in-house teamWith Cubicent
AvailabilityBusiness hours24×7 coverage
ScalabilityFixed headcountFlex up or down
CostHigh fixed overheadPredictable & variable
Response timeBest-effortSLA-backed
Skill coverageLimited benchBroad specialist pool
AutomationAd hocBuilt-in
Global coverageSingle time zoneFollow-the-sun
ReportingInformalTransparent SLA reporting
FAQs

Questions teams ask before they start.

Can you support our on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments?
Yes. We operate across on-premise, public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) and hybrid estates, adapting to whatever mix you run.
How quickly can you respond to incidents?
Response and resolution targets are agreed per priority in your SLA, with automatic escalation if a target is at risk. Critical incidents get immediate, all-hands attention.
Will you work inside our ticketing and tools?
Yes — we work in your ITSM (ServiceNow, Jira and others), monitoring and cloud consoles, so there is one source of truth.
How do you handle access securely?
Least-privilege, role-based, named accounts under NDA, provisioned for the engagement and revoked at offboarding, with activity logged.
Can we start with a single application or system?
Absolutely. Many clients begin with one application or a defined scope, then expand once the working relationship is proven.
We’d rather prevent the 3am call than be quick to answer it. Proactive monitoring and verified backups are the quiet work that keeps you out of trouble.
Cubicent — how we approach the work

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