Transarc
| Industry | Software |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1989 |
| Founders |
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| Defunct | 2002 |
| Fate | Acquired by IBM, 1994; became IBM Transarc Lab 1999, IBM Pittsburgh Lab 2001, closed 2002 |
| Headquarters | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Products | AFS, DFS, Encina |
Transarc Corporation was a private software company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded in 1989 by Carnegie Mellon University researchers Jeffrey Eppinger, Michael L. Kazar, Alfred Spector and Dean Thompson. The company was formed to commercialise the Andrew File System (AFS), a distributed file system originally developed at Carnegie Mellon. IBM acquired Transarc in 1994.