Case Study: TCM Living achieves resilient, cost‑effective ERP disaster recovery with Skytap on Azure

TCM Living cloud-based DR with Skytap on Azure

TCM Living, a UK designer and manufacturer of high-fashion sofas, was running a 20-year-old, business‑critical ERP on an out‑of‑support AIX instance on a single IBM POWER5 server, leaving it exposed to major disaster‑recovery risk. With a cloud‑first strategy and no appetite for new on‑premises Power hardware, the company needed a cost‑effective way to protect legacy data and keep the system running during an ERP migration.

Northdoor implemented a native DR instance in Skytap on Microsoft Azure, upgrading AIX, automating daily replication from the on‑premises production system, and adding SLAs for ongoing support. After a successful failover test, TCM Living gained rapid recovery capability without capital investment, flexible cloud capacity, reduced operational risk, and confidence to retain the cloud instance for historical data while continuing its ERP migration.

TCM Living

Nik Hall

Chief Information Officer