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Fulfilling the Media Frenzy

Palm Coast Data
Palm Coast , Florida

Palm Coast Data (PCD) was founded in 1984 to provide Family Media Publications with in-house fulfillment services for magazines such as Ladies Home Journal. The operation expanded in 1988, offering its services to outside clients. In 2002, the company was acquired by Tinicum Capital Partners.

Today, PCD is one of the world's largest fulfillment providers; it offers account-management, letter-shop and print-management, direct-mail and customer-service fulfillment to a range of high-profile clients.

What Pythian has done for Palm Coast Data

• managed all Oracle installations.
• administered Compaq Alpha servers in support of a major national organization with membership databases approaching 1 Terabyte in size.
• supported Red Hat Linux servers connected to a 3 Terabyte SAN array, running Internet Subscription, Customer-service, Shopping Cart and Gate Keeping systems for over 200 publications (over 35 million active subscribers) issued by more than 45 major publishers.
• overseen UNIX Systems administration outsourcing for Tru64 and Linux systems.
• recovered 100% of database after two separate power failures.

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