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Millenniata continues to make progress with its patent-pending Millennial Disc and Millennial Writer

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:02:39 -0700

Today there's a well-documented but not so well-known digital dilemma facing humankind.

Digital data stored with any known media - including hard drives, magnetic tape or digital discs - has a finite storage life of less than 20 years. This means, in addition to the storage of new data, companies, institutions and organizations are in a constant state of re-archiving old data.

"Although modern society loves digital data," Millenniata, Inc.'s CEO Henry O'Connell says, "It hasn't yet figured out how to store it; at least not for more than the lifetime of the family dog."

Archivists and data storage professionals warn that the longevity dilemma of the information age is now very serious and is becoming an increasingly expensive and difficult problem.

"It's like a tsunami of digital data," O'Connell explains. "It just keeps growing and further straining existing, mostly inadequate digital archiving techniques."

This critical data archiving problem will be met head-on by the new Millennial Disc^TM and Millennial Writer^TM products currently in development at Millenniata, Inc.

With patent-pending technology first developed at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Millenniata, Inc. has�created the first digital disc that safely stores data for 1,000 years.

Additionally, the Millennial Disc is backwards compatible, which means once it's created, it can be read like any other recordable DVD, and it requires no special handling or environment.

At Millenniata, this new approach to digital storage is affectionately known as Write Once Read Forever^TM. That's the promise of the Millennial Disc and its accompanying Millennial Writer products.

The Millennial Disc and Writer are scheduled for alpha testing in 2009's first quarter.

The Millennial Disc moves the digital storage industry forward, providing a long-term storage solution that fits well within existing disc drive processes and storage methods. Millenniata's solution is both elegant and efficient.

About Millenniata, Inc.

Millenniata, Inc. is the world's first and only provider of a permanent archiving solution that is backwards compatible. Using the company's Millennial Disc^TM and Millennial Writer^TM products, in one simple data inscribing process, it is now possible to preserve information and records for institutions, businesses, consumers and families for centuries.

Millenniata reports to investors in shareholder meeting

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:48:33 -0600

More than 50 shareholders gathered on Oct. 24, 2008 in Provo, Utah to receive news and information from Millenniata, Inc. in the company's first annual shareholder meeting.

The event, led by Millenniata President and CEO Henry O'Connell, provided investors with a financial report, technology and legal overview, product status report, marketing review, and an introduction to various members of the Millenniata team.

"Judging from investors' participation and questions during our two-hour shareholder meeting, we're backed by a committed, engaged and very supportive group of investors," O'Connell said. "The company has made great strides this year and we're looking forward to fulfilling orders for the new Millennial Disc^TM by the second quarter of 2009."

Millenniata is the result of patent-pending technology used to create the world's first long-term digital data storage disc. The technology was developed by Dr. Barry Lunt and Dr. Matthew Linford, two professors at Brigham Young University. The resulting disc - which looks and feels like the familiar CD-ROM, DVD or Blu-ray disc - is called the Millennial Disc^TM. It can safely house data for 1,000 years.

The Millennial Disc^TM is the world's first backwards compatible, virtually permanent archiving solution for the digital age.

Millenniata investors, nearly 300 in all, were invited to attend the shareholder meeting to meet the company's management and development teams. In addition to O'Connell's remarks, presentations were made by Douglas Hansen, PhD, executive vice president, chief technology officer, founder and director; Christopher Buntel, vice president, legal counsel; and Barry Oates, chief financial officer.

CFO Oates reported on the $4.9 million raised for Millenniata to-date, as well as the status of the 60 million shares of stock authorized by Millenniata's board, including options committed and outstanding.

The shareholders voted on two items of corporate business. The first, Steve Meadows was nominated to the board of directors; and the second, five million B-class shares were authorized at a value of five-to-one against A-class shares, for use as stock options for future employees.

Based in Springville, Utah Millenniata, Inc. employs 20 people and is managed by a board of directors that includes: Doug Hansen, Matt Linford, Barry Lunt, Steve Meadows and Chairman Henry O'Connell.

Millenniata announces filing of 10 new trademark applications

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:08:26 -0600

Millenniata, Inc. is delighted to announce the filing of 10 U.S. trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The company is seeing extensive progress in the development and marketing of their unique data archival technologies.

The acquired trademarks will assist in the further development and protection of Millenniata's intellectual property.

The marks are:

Millenniata™
Millenniata's rotating circle logo
Write Once Read Forever™
Timeless Data Archiving™
M Class™
Millennial Writer™
Millennial Drive™
Millennial Disc Writer System™
Millennial Disc™
Forever Disc™

Library of Congress speaks out regarding frailty of digital data, helps make the case for Millennial Disc�

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:29:14 -0600

To many, saving a document to a CD is considered long-term storage. It’s a common misperception that digital information is more stable and secure than the printed word. In fact, digital materials are considered more fragile than physical ones.

It seems to go against modern thinking that something printed hundreds of years ago may be better preserved than a family’s digital photographs taken only a decade ago and stored on a CD.

The Library of Congress outlines well the risk of preserving memories in digital format and provides helpful tips to ensuring the protection of valuable digital information.

The institution points out, and rightfully so, that digital preservation cannot be addressed by a single organization or nation. Libraries, archives and other memory institutions all share in the challenge along with individual collectors and creators.

The problem of lacking a long-term digital storage solution is what inspired the Millennial Disc™ inventors to create a disc that would last for centuries . The Millennial Disc™ is the only backwards compatible disc proven to safely store digital information for a thousand years, not the typical eight to 12 years of the current CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc.

You can learn more about the Library of Congress's digital preservation programs by exploring their Digital Preservation Web site.

Millenniata wins Best of State award for Utah�s newest computer and software provider

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:41:02 -0600

Millenniata is pleased to announce its first industry award: the Utah Best of State award in the category of Science & Tech, sub-category of computer and software providers.

Millenniata's unique data archiving solution, the Millennial Disc™, along with its accompanying Millennial Writer™, provide the industry's first CD storage device capable of lasting hundreds of years.

Millenniata was recognized by Best of State as the most outstanding entry in its category.

The Utah Best of State awards will be held May 31, 2008 at the Salt Palace Convention Center Ballroom in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Indian Canyon writings inspire BYU to invent permanent DVD

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:48:40 -0600

When Barry Lunt took his scouts to visit the Anasazi Indian petroglyphs, little did he realize he would be inspired to invent a new permanent DVD that would preserve information for generations.

Dr. Lunt, a genealogist and Professor of Information Technology at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, examined these Anasazi Indian writings and became frustrated that while these writings had survived thousands of years, the genealogy he burned to DVDs the week prior was doomed to deterioration within the decade.

As he studied the writings, which were created by chipping away dark rock to expose a lighter layer of rock beneath, he reasoned why can’t we make a DVD the same way?

So he teamed up with Dr. Matthew Linford, BYU Chemistry Department, an expert in surface chemistry, to find the Anasazi’s secret recipe for immortal records.

After several months they found that a material similar to obsidian (a hard, dark glass) could be permanently bound to a reflective metal. This obsidian-like surface could then be etched away to record the data in ones and zeros instead of pictograms.

Since the materials used in this DVD are not subject to the changes of heat or time, the data is literally carved in stone.

The BYU Technology Transfer Office then went to work to file the initial patents and encourage a company to spin-off from the University. BYU identified two other experts in start-up development: physicist and CTO, Dr. Doug Hansen and CEO Henry O’Connell to give leadership and experience to the team.

The company, Millenniata, Inc., has been approached by leaders in information archiving from genealogy to the film industry and from state health and vital statistics data centers to those who oversee the National Archives.