By Steve Johnson
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Imation Corp., today, announced its new Ulysses™ technology, what they bill as the first disk-enhanced removable media cartridge.
It’s effectively a hard drive that interfaces with existing tape systems. It’s benefit is to provide organizations with the faster backup and restore speeds of hard drives, while sparing them the cost of replacing their tape hardware. The Ulysses system provides speeds up to ten-times faster than with traditional tape libraries.
Ulysses is a Serial ATA (SATA) 2.5-inch disk drive in an LTO Ultrium cartridge form factor. When used with the Ulysses tape drive emulator, it accelerates backup and restore performance while residing within an existing tape library. The emulator fits into any standard tape drive bay and is recognized by the host, backup software and storage management software as a standard tape drive.
Produce rollout will begin in 2006.
Source: Imation Corp.
Disk-as-Tape Cartridges Slip Into Back-Up System & Boost Speed
Steve Johnson, contributing writer for RealTechNews, writes: Imation Ulysses Disk-as-Tape DriveImation Corp., today, announced its new Ulysses technology, what it bilsl as the first disk-enhanced removable media cartridge. It’s effectively a hard driv…
Perhaps an unfortunate choice of a name. I speed-read the article title as “Imation Useless Disk-as-Tape Cartridge…”
Do these marketing people pay any attention at all??
Ever???
Don’t blame marketing…nothing wrong with title at all. Blame your eyes moron.
Quite possibly the most illuminating thing said all day,
considering where it came from.