Infinite Disk

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Infinite Disk is a hierarchical storage management (HSM) and backup utility for MS-DOS, 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] A variant of Infinite Disk, Personal Archiver, was bundled with Iomega removable drives starting in November 1994. [5] The company and the software were acquired by Cheyenne Software in 1995, [6] which was in turn purchased by Computer Associates in 1996. [7]

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.

References

  1. ↑ Infinite Disk 2.0 Product Announcement in Software Magazine
  2. ↑ Hiebert, Garin (October 10, 1994). "Infinite Disk brings hierarchical storage to personal computers". InfoWorld. Vol. 16, no. 41. IDG. p. 132. ISSN   0199-6649.
  3. ↑ "Chili Pepper Cleans Unused Files off your Hard Disk", Computer Business Review, December 9, 1992 (press release)
  4. ↑ Datamation, February 15, 1993, p. 210
  5. ↑ Business Wire, Nov 4, 1994 Archived July 8, 2012, at archive.today
  6. ↑ Business Wire, Sept 28, 1995 Archived July 11, 2012, at archive.today
  7. ↑ Business Wire, Oct 7, 1996 Archived July 9, 2012, at archive.today


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