ARCADA BACKUP TO SHIP WITH QIC-3010 AND QIC-3020 DRIVES; Next-generation floppy interface drives from Conner, Iomega, and Micro Solutions incorporate Arcade Backup utility.LAKE MARY Lake Mary may refer to:
Drives supplied by Conner, Iomega, and Micro Solutions all will incorporate the utility. Arcada Backup will enable QIC-3010 users to back up 345 MB of uncompressed data and 680 MB of compressed data on a single tape. QIC-3020 users can back up 700 MB uncompressed and 1.36 GB of compressed data per tape. In addition, data transfer rates for QIC-3020 users will double typical QIC-80 drive rates, with a transfer rate of 2 Mbps. The time it takes to run backup operations are cut in half. QIC-3010 drives from Conner, Micro Solutions, and Iomega are shipping now. Iomega will begin shipping its QIC-3020 drives in the first quarter of 1995. Ship dates for QIC-3020 drives from Conner and Micro Solutions have not been announced. "Users of QIC-80 tapes are now limited to storing only 340 MB of compressed data per tape, which is not in line with the tremendous growth we've seen in the storage capacity of hard disks, most of which can store 500 to 600 megabytes of data," said Joe Kovacs Joe Kovacs (Born Joseph Stephen Kovacs on December 15, 1967 in Independence, Ohio), is an American puppeteer and actor. Most recently found by the Estate of Wayland Flowers to bring the puppet Madame , Arcada's business unit director for desktop products. "The QIC-3010 and QIC-3020 drives, coupled with Arcada's award-winning backup software See backup program. (tool, software) backup software - Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. , now provide users with the total solution." About Arcada Arcada Software 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) of Lake Mary, Florida, and Astora Software, formerly Quest Development Corporation, of San Luis Obispo, California. Inc. develops data protection and storage management software that operates across multiple desktop and client/server environments, including those from Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Founded in 1994 by the merger of the software operations of Conner Peripherals Inc. and Quest Development Corp., Arcada has developed a wide range of popular backup software products and utilities, including the native backup utilities in Windows NT for Microsoft, MaynStream for Maynard, QICStream for Archive, EZTape for Irwin and Norton Backup for Symantec. Arcada now markets its products worldwide under the Backup Exec and Storage Exec brand names to OEMs, system integrators, value-added resellers, retailers and large corporate users. Arcada has facilities in Lake Mary, Fla.; San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. , Calif.; and Maidenhead Maidenhead, city (1991 pop. 59,809), Windsor and Maidenhead, S central England, on the Thames River. It is a residential town with brewing and milling industries as well as a resort. The 13th-century stone bridge was rebuilt in the 1770s. , England. CONTACT: Arcada Software, Lake Mary Mari Sheehy, 407/333-7777 or Crescent Communications, Atlanta Mark Moore, ext. 112 Terrie O'Hanlon, ext. 111 404/698-8650 MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. 484-3333 CompuServe 75662,2320 |
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