About 2 months ago we wrote a short summary post about the ShutterBug Magazine article focused on us and our technology. Today, they posted that article to their online content and you can go check it out! This is a wonderful article by David R. Brooks with amazing photos he took himself (ShutterBug is a photography enthusiast’s magazine after all). Please click the link and read it!
Millenniata Discs: “More Than” Archival Storage On American-Made DVDs
Chuck Hajdu from Monthly Computer Chronicle recently reported on his week spent in Las Vegas at the Storage Visions and CES trade shows. Chuck had quite a bit to say in his review, but we would like to focus on his experiences with us and our products. Check out the summary below.
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 2012—Millenniata (www.millenniata.com) today announced it received the Visionary Product Consumer Storage device award during the Storage Visions 2012 conference at the 2012 International Consumer Electronic Show (CES) for its M-DISC permanent storage technology that etches data onto a stone like material.
Millenniata has been selected as a Visionary Award finalist at this year’s 11th annual Storage Visions conference, “Heavy Storage for Thin Clients.” The M-DISC was nominated for and is a finalist in the Consumer Storage Device category. We appreciate the acknowledgement and hope to take home the award!
In the December 2011 issue of ShutterBug, a magazine devoted to photography and everything in the world of cameras, you’ll find a succinct photography tools review by David B. Brooks about his new solution to digitally save and store images, the M-DISC. David says,
I often get questions about how to store digital image files safely and securely. Although there have been a lot of options, all of them have involved compromises. Recently, however, one of our readers told me about Millenniata, and I immediately looked into this new American company. I found that Millenniata has a new DVD disc technology that provides “more than” archival life expectancy, as established by the US Department of Defense’s Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Divison at China Lake, California.
Provides M-DISC Permanent Storage Duplication for Government and Other Organizations
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 1, 2011— Millenniata today announced it has entered into an OEM and distribution agreement with Systor Systems who will distribute M-DISCs to its customers and channel as well as provide M-DISC compatible duplication systems allowing for the mass duplication of permanent content on M-DISCs.
In August, the Sunday Review of The New York Times ran an article by Kari Krauss about data preservation and the question of how we can keep from losing our data. Kari considers an answer that would transform our data archivists and preservationists into curators. Here’s her thinking; our current method of digital preservation holds seductive promises, seemingly unlimited data storage, near ubiquitous access and a method for creating mass copies at little to no cost. But she asks, when was the last time you were able to access that unpublished manuscript you saved so many years ago on a floppy disk? Or even considered the integrity of the disk’s magnetic properties? That same degradation and data rot is a rampant problem that even modern “gold standard” optical discs suffer today.
Genealogy is important to us. We understand that sometimes it takes years of searching and connecting the dots to reveal the lives of those family members that lived before us. Or maybe you’ve stumbled upon your lineage and have found a family line that stretches back into your history for hundreds of years. Whatever the case may be, this information is priceless and needs to endure on beyond your lifetime and be available to your progeny. This is one of the exact situations that we had in mind while we developed the M-DISC. Previously, there wasn’t a perfect solution for preserving your records. CDs and DVDs claimed to have extended lifespans and would protect your data, but these both proved to be unreliable. And that really is the key to data preservation, a method that you can count on every time.
The wonderful team at Tech Briefs was skeptical leading up to their meeting with us. Previous optical disc technology has promised longevity and they have all failed, so we understood their skepticism. But after getting a hands on look at the M-DISC and our drives, Tech Briefs has become a fan. Check out their full article below or by clicking here.
New M-DISC to Provide Up To 1,000 Years of Permanent Data Storage
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 15, 2011—Millenniata™ (www.Millenniata.com), a new optical disc company, ushered in a new era of information storage with the release of its M-DISC™ and M-READY™ disc storage technology—technology that permanently etches data onto the write layer of the disc for use anytime and for generations to come without any data loss.
The company also announced a manufacturing and marketing partnership with Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc. to manufacture Millenniata compatible (M-DISC compatible) DVD drives and market them through its sales channels.
