Backup Exec
Backup Exec, proprietary backup software developed since 2005 by Symantec, has a long history of successive owner-companies. Its earliest roots stretch back to the early 1980s when Maynard Electronics wrote a bundle of software drivers to help sell their tape-drive products.As of 2014 Backup Exec provides market leading Backup and Recovery software for all sizes of organizations that are predominantly Microsoft or VMware centric data-protection solution. Backup Exec protects both virtual and physical environments with a single user interface.
History
Provenance
1982 - Maynard Electronics started. Maynard's software is known as "MaynStream."
1989 - Maynard is acquired by Archive Corp. MaynStream is available for DOS, Windows, Macintosh, OS/2, and NetWare.
1991 - Quest Development Corporation is independently formed to develop backup software under contract for Symantec.
1993 - Conner Peripherals acquires Archive Corp. and renames the software "Backup Exec".
1993 - Quest acquired rights to FastBack for Macintosh, and hired its principal author, Tom Chappell, from Fifth Generation Systems.