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 drive that interfaces with existing tape systems. Its 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….

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