Arcada Software was a computer software company that was formed in early 1994 by the merger of Conner Software (the software division of Conner Peripherals

Conner Peripherals

Conner Peripherals was a company that manufactured hard drives for personal computers. Conner Peripherals was founded in 1985 by Seagate Technology co-founder Finis Conner but it in itself never produced a product. In 1986 Conner Peripherals merged with CoData, started by MiniScribe founders Terry...

) of Lake Mary, Florida

Lake Mary, Florida

Lake Mary is a city in Seminole County, Florida, United States. The population was 11,456 at the 2000 census. As of 2009, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 15,230...

, and Astora Software, formerly Quest Development Corporation

Quest Development Corporation

Quest Development Corporation was a small, privately held software development company in San Luis Obispo, California that primarily developed backup software under contract to Symantec Corporation in the late 1980s and early 1990s...

, of San Luis Obispo, California

San Luis Obispo, California

San Luis Obispo is a city in California, located roughly midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles on the Central Coast. Founded in 1772 by Spanish Fr. Junipero Serra, San Luis Obispo is one of California’s oldest communities...

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Conner Software owned the Backup Exec

Backup Exec

Backup Exec is proprietary backup software currently developed by Symantec. Backup Exec has a long history of being sold from one company to another. Its earliest roots stretch back to the early 1980s when Maynard Electronics created a bundle of software drivers to help sell their tape drive...

 brand of backup

Backup

In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....

 software, while Quest owned the source code behind Symantec Corporation’s Norton Backup for the DOS, Windows and Macintosh computing platforms of the time. In 1995, Arcada acquired the Sytron division of Rexon

Rexon

Rexon Business Machines, later Rexon, Inc., was a manufacturer of small business computer systems founded by Ben C. Wang in 1978 in Culver City, California. It also became a major manufacturer of tape drives and related products. At its height, it played a significant role in the development and...

 to become a leader in the OS/2 market as well.

Arcada’s sales revenues grew exponentially over its two year lifespan and was acquired by Seagate Technologies in 1996. Seagate then spun it and the other software companies it had acquired up to that time off into a wholly owned subsidiary called Seagate Software

Seagate Software

Seagate Software was an international software corporation headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, United States. It was a majority owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology, the largest independent disc drive and related components company in the world....

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The Chief Executive Officer of Arcada was entrepreneur Kevin Azzouz, the founder and President of Quest Development Corporation.