Case Study: Tyco International achieves uninterrupted life-safety monitoring and faster, zero-downtime updates with Microsoft Azure

Tyco keeps life-safety monitoring applications running without interruption using Windows Server Containers and Docker

Tyco, a global leader in fire protection and security with over 57,000 employees and millions of monitoring installations, needed to ensure its mission‑critical monitoring applications never went offline for routine updates or to meet growing scalability demands. Its flagship access-control system, C•CURE 9000, was a large legacy .NET application that required full redeploys for component updates—tasks that could take hours, disrupt customer sites, and limit the number of devices the system could support.

Tyco moved C•CURE 9000 into Windows Server Containers using Docker on Windows Server 2016 and ran the containerized application in Microsoft Azure, enabling a path to microservices. The change delivered consistent Dev/Ops workflows, faster, smaller updates with minimal or zero downtime, improved elasticity and scalability, lower management costs, and the ability to modernize the application incrementally to support more devices and customers.

Tyco International

Stephen Tarmey

Chief Architect