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Dolphin Interconnect is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. U.S. operations are located in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Dolphin maintains sales offices in Boston, Los Angeles, Oslo, Germany and France and is represented internationally by a network of resellers, distributors and integrators. Dolphin has deep experience in developing leading and innovative computer interconnect technology. Since the early 1990's the company has been instrumental in the development of many of the industries most important standards including PCI, SCI, StarFabric, and PCI Express. Dolphin has supplied its interconnect products to major industry players including Siemens, Philips, Sony, Lexmark, Sun MicroSystems, Lexmark, Boeing, and Thales.

see also:- Dolphin - editor mentions on StorageSearch.com

  • editor's comments:- February 2010 - Dolphin's SSD products are rackmount SSDs which connect via PCIe. If you're seriously looking at Dolphin's SSDs you should also consider competing products in the same category from NextIO and Violin Memory.


Dolphin's recent milestones in SSD market history

in March 2009 - Dolphin launched the StorExpress a rackmount SLC flash SSD with upto 960GB capacity. The PCIe connected SSD has R/W throughput upto 2,700MB/s and 50 microsecond access latency. Dolphin quotes a figure of 270,000 IOPS but the initial datasheet doesn't break out IOPS figures for reads and writes. The StorExpress can be located upto 10m from the host bus using copper cable and 300m with optical fibre.

In April 2009 - MAGMA and Dolphin jointly announced they have collaborated to develop an improved version of the latter's previously announced 2U StorExpress PCIe SSD product line, which will ship next month. Capacity options include 0.5TB (under $20K), 1TB and 2TB. It achieves 270K read and write IOPs (512 bytes to 4KB blocks) and up to 2.8GB/s of sustained bandwidth. Latency is less than 50µS. The StorExpress enclosure can be positioned 1,000 feet away from the host server using fiber.

In May 2009 - Dolphin's CEO, Tim Miller shares his SSD Bookmarks with readers of StorageSearch.com.

In December 2009 - Dolphin announced that it intended to merge with Best Media AS (an ISP based in Norway - which operates IPTV, IP telephony, internet and mobile phone services).
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SSD Backup - new directory
Editor:- February 16, 2010 - StorageSearch.com launched a new directory for - Solid State Storage Backup.

Although these are still early days for the S3B market - the new page will help you filter out news, articles and messages from the S3B pioneers which otherwise might get lost in the clamor of the SSD market bubble.

"In the early days of the disk to disk backup market the old tape vendors scoffed the idea that hard disks might one day steal their market. Now most of those old tape dinosaurs are gone and the hard disk backup market reigns supreme" said editor, Zsolt Kerekes.

"Despite that - I expect that most vendors in the D2d / VTL market today will not even be dreaming about the possibility that SSDs will one day transform their own cozy market too.
Solid State Storage Backup - S3B "But they urgently need to start having fresh ideas about what backup and recovery are really for? The S3B page will chronicle the news from the nascent Solid State Storage Backup market - and help to accelerate those changes."
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....................profile updated March 12, 2009 ..................................

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