Milestone: 20,000th News Item Published on StorageNewsletter.com

The first news published on November 14, 2007:
From SanDisk, Flash-based Accelerator to Speed Up System Performance in Consumer Laptops and PCs

The last one: Milestone: 20,000 News Published on StorageNewsletter.com

The top ten most visited news since the first one:
        
≠ of Visits*: News, Date

• 32,294:NetApp to Acquire EMC for $9.5 Billion (Joke), April 1, 2011
• 29,836: Apple Ordered 12PB (!) of Storage on Isilon’s Systems, April 6, 2011
• 12,400: Dell Positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Midrange Disk Arrays, December 10, 2009
• 12,337: DR-as-a-Service by Teneros, February 2, 2010
• 11,498: Most Promising Storage Start-Ups, January 24, 2011
• 9,882: Datex Designed a Floppy Disk Drive Emulator, January 5, 2009
• 9,360: StarWind Brings Virtual SAN to VMware, April 8, 2009
• 8,199: Top 15 Storage Trends, December 31, 2010
• 7,579: Slim External Blu-Ray Drive by Asus, June 12, 2009
• 7,530: Maxell Entering Into Storage Devices, January 8, 2010

* Some old news are more visited as readers consult them afterwards using search engines.

It’s sometimes difficult to understand why readers are more interested
by certain subjects rather other ones. For example, we don’t understand
that an article like ‘Datex Designed a Floppy Disk Drive Emulator’ has
such a good place (≠6).

Since the launch of the Web site, the number of visitors has drastically
increased. This relatively young site is now far to be
known by all the worldwide IT storage community.

All the following
figures come from independent web site Google Analytics.


Since the first day of the Web site, 1,522,369 visits have been
registered corresponding to 2,393,068 pages viewed by 864,053 unique
visitors. On average, each visitor look at 1.57 page and remains on the
site 1mn and 10s.

              
Comparison of Y/Y Audience

 

Where the visitors come from:

1. USA (47%)
2. UK (7%)
3. France (7%)
4. Germany (5%)
5. Japan (3%)
6. Canada (3%)
7. India (2%)
8. Rest of the world (26%)

Who are the visitors
When we consult the current list of subscribed
visitors receiving daily our newsletter by email – currently 21,434 –
they are, of course, hardware manufacturers and software publishers, but
the bulk of them are from the channel (integrators, VARs, VADs,
resellers, distributors, ISVs, etc). These guys need to know regularly
what’s happening in the worldwide storage industry, to know more about
their furnishers, new ones, new storage concepts – generally coming
from start-ups -, and products to orientate their strategy.

There are few end users, but big ones. When a smaller company wants to update
its storage infrastructure, it needs information and look at our web site. But, when the system
is finally installed, they don’t need to follow daily the storage
market. In the world, only big companies have people full-time involved
in storage. In smaller ones, it’s generally the IT or network manager.

Thanks to all our numerous visitors. See you for more information on our web site for our 30,000th news item to come around October 2013.