Software:Infinite Disk
Infinite Disk was an early hierarchical storage management (HSM) and backup utility for DOS, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2 published by Chili Pepper Software of Atlanta in 1992.[1] Infinite Disk introduced HSM, previously limited to mainframes, to personal computers.[2][3][4] The company and the software were acquired by Cheyenne Software in 1995,[5] which was in turn purchased by Computer Associates in 1996.[6]
Infinite Disk, operating in the background, automatically compresses less-active files and eventually migrates them to removable media, but the files remain visible in Windows folders and, when accessed, are fetched from the backup storage.
A variant of Infinite Disk, Personal Archiver, was bundled with Iomega removable drives starting in November 1994.[7]
References
- ↑ Infinite Disk 2.0 Product Announcement in Software Magazine
- ↑ Hiebert, Garin (October 10, 1994). "Infinite Disk brings hierarchical storage to personal computers". InfoWorld (IDG) 16 (41): 132. ISSN 0199-6649. https://books.google.com/books?id=aTgEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22infinite+disk%22&pg=PA132.
- ↑ "Chili Pepper Cleans Unused Files off your Hard Disk", Computer Business Review, December 9, 1992 (press release)
- ↑ Datamation, February 15, 1993, p. 210
- ↑ Business Wire, Sept 28, 1995
- ↑ Business Wire, Oct 7, 1996
- ↑ Business Wire, Nov 4, 1994
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