Cofio Software
American software company
Cofio Software, headquartered in San Diego, California, was a privately held software company founded in 2006 which produced a product called AIMstor. After being acquired in 2012 the product became known as the Hitachi Data Instance Director. and later became Hitachi Ops Center Protector
History
The Cofio founders were also founders of BakBone Software, with the majority of the Cofio's engineering team also being the core developers at BakBone. They were the team that created the re-designed NetVault Backup 6 product. The engineering team was based in the South of England and worked together since the early 1990s.
The company name Cofio is a Welsh language term meaning "to remember".
The company developed data management storage management software. The product was branded and given the trademark AIMstor in 2008.
Cofio was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) on September 21, 2012, and the AIMstor product was released as Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID). HDID orchestrates data protection technologies on HDS storage arrays.
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