Cofio Software
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Cofio Software, headquartered in San Diego, California
, is a privately held company founded in 2006 by Tony Cerqueira, Patrick Barcus and Fabrice Helliker. The founders were also founders of BakBone Software and much of Cofio's engineering team were the core developers at BakBone and were the team that created the re-designed NetVault 6 product. The engineering team is based in the South of England in UK and have been working together since the early 1990s.
The company was formed in response to the need for a single data management storage product that could accommodate multiple storage solutions. The product was branded and given the trademark AIMstor in 2008. This is Cofio's main focus. Although the product was available worldwide, it was not officially released in the US and Japan until 2010. Following the launch in 2010 the company picked up a fair amount of press
The other product in Cofio's portfolio is a Virtual Tape Library
software solution ViStor.
was the prevailing reason Cofio Software was founded. The intention of the product is to provide the ability to perform many of the data management functions such as Backup, Archiving, Real Time Replication, Bare Metal Recovery and Continuous Data Protection
(True-CDP) under one platform. The key difference to competitive products is rather than having many different products that are later integrated in a complex fashion, Cofio's goal was to provide a single footprint application where the different solutions can be unified together in a seamless fashion to reduce complexity, hardware costs and administrative burden.
At the core of Cofio's attempt at providing consolidated features is a user interface that allows data policies and data movement to be defined graphically allowing complex topologies to be created quickly.
Another cited major component of AIMstor is the Repository. This aims to provide a storage platform that can ingest live data to provide backup, Continuous Data Protection
and data Archiving. It performs Data deduplication
as well as possessing an indexing engine allowing for fast search of the repository content.
Although AIMstor is a single product it is marketed as separate products such as AIMstor Backup, AIMstor Replication, AIMstor CDP, etc.
AIMstor supports Microsoft Windows and Linux.
(VTL). It was released in 2007 to OEM's in Asia specifically who create VTL appliances using the ViStor software. Software runs on a version of Linux
and supports the iSCSI
protocol as well supporting Emulex
Fibre Channel
Host Bus Adapters.
San Diego, California
San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
, is a privately held company founded in 2006 by Tony Cerqueira, Patrick Barcus and Fabrice Helliker. The founders were also founders of BakBone Software and much of Cofio's engineering team were the core developers at BakBone and were the team that created the re-designed NetVault 6 product. The engineering team is based in the South of England in UK and have been working together since the early 1990s.
The company was formed in response to the need for a single data management storage product that could accommodate multiple storage solutions. The product was branded and given the trademark AIMstor in 2008. This is Cofio's main focus. Although the product was available worldwide, it was not officially released in the US and Japan until 2010. Following the launch in 2010 the company picked up a fair amount of press
The other product in Cofio's portfolio is a Virtual Tape Library
Virtual Tape Library
A virtual tape library is a data storage virtualization technology used typically for backup and recovery purposes. A VTL presents a storage component as tape libraries or tape drives for use with existing backup software.Virtualizing the disk storage as tape allows integration of VTLs with...
software solution ViStor.
AIMstor
The concept of AIMstorAIMstor
Cofio AIMstor is a software product developed by Cofio Software. Cofio described the product as a Data management product with a feature set particularly tailored to Backup, Replication and Archiving.- Product Philosophy :...
was the prevailing reason Cofio Software was founded. The intention of the product is to provide the ability to perform many of the data management functions such as Backup, Archiving, Real Time Replication, Bare Metal Recovery and Continuous Data Protection
Continuous data protection
Continuous data protection , also called continuous backup or real-time backup, refers to backup of computer data by automatically saving a copy of every change made to that data, essentially capturing every version of the data that the user saves...
(True-CDP) under one platform. The key difference to competitive products is rather than having many different products that are later integrated in a complex fashion, Cofio's goal was to provide a single footprint application where the different solutions can be unified together in a seamless fashion to reduce complexity, hardware costs and administrative burden.
At the core of Cofio's attempt at providing consolidated features is a user interface that allows data policies and data movement to be defined graphically allowing complex topologies to be created quickly.
Another cited major component of AIMstor is the Repository. This aims to provide a storage platform that can ingest live data to provide backup, Continuous Data Protection
Continuous data protection
Continuous data protection , also called continuous backup or real-time backup, refers to backup of computer data by automatically saving a copy of every change made to that data, essentially capturing every version of the data that the user saves...
and data Archiving. It performs Data deduplication
Data deduplication
In computing, data deduplication is a specialized data compression technique for eliminating coarse-grained redundant data. The technique is used to improve storage utilization and can also be applied to network data transfers to reduce the number of bytes that must be sent across a link...
as well as possessing an indexing engine allowing for fast search of the repository content.
Although AIMstor is a single product it is marketed as separate products such as AIMstor Backup, AIMstor Replication, AIMstor CDP, etc.
AIMstor supports Microsoft Windows and Linux.
ViStor
ViStor is a software implementation of a Virtual Tape LibraryVirtual Tape Library
A virtual tape library is a data storage virtualization technology used typically for backup and recovery purposes. A VTL presents a storage component as tape libraries or tape drives for use with existing backup software.Virtualizing the disk storage as tape allows integration of VTLs with...
(VTL). It was released in 2007 to OEM's in Asia specifically who create VTL appliances using the ViStor software. Software runs on a version of Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
and supports the iSCSI
ISCSI
In computing, iSCSI , is an abbreviation of Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol -based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage...
protocol as well supporting Emulex
Emulex
Emulex Corporation is a California based manufacturer of storage networking infrastructure solutions. The company's products include Fibre Channel host bus adapters , Fibre Channel over Ethernet converged network adapters , embedded storage switches, storage I/O controller and SAN storage switch...
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
Host Bus Adapters.