October 4th, 2005
Imation’s Ulysses Disk-as-Tape Cartridges Slip Into Your Back-Up System and Boost Speed 10X
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.
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
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…
October 4th, 2005 at 3:08 am
Mikey says:
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???
October 5th, 2005 at 6:00 am
Markey says:
Don’t blame marketing…nothing wrong with title at all. Blame your eyes moron.
October 6th, 2005 at 4:20 pm
Mikey says:
Quite possibly the most illuminating thing said all day,
considering where it came from.
October 7th, 2005 at 11:00 am