Hancock House Publishing - Huge Data Servers

The publishing industry has undergone a complete transition from paper-based to computerized layups for books and publications. No longer do they store huge cardboard pasteup pages but instead must store and manipulate digital files.

Hancock House Publishers has been a client of Pacific Data Capture for in excess of 20 years. David Hancock approached us about creating a solution to the problem of keeping all the digital files for their catalogue of books online and available at all times. Instead of the old method of creating paste-ups of the pages of books, now all his printers wanted to receive the books as highly detailed - and large - PDF files.

To facilitate the creation and re-use of book information in both re-releases and new works, David wanted to be able to keep not only the page-layup files online but also their huge and growing catalogue of high-resolution photos; both his own from his wildlife photography and those of his many authors and contributors.

Pacific Data Capture has implemented fully redundant custom servers with multi-terabyte RAID arrays backed up daily to alternate facilities. Over the past several years this infrastructure has grown from the initial two terabytes to where it now includes video from Hancock Wildlife Foundation's video cameras and weighs in at over 20 Terabytes, all integrated into their Windows based editing and production facilities and remotely managed by our staff.