Most Popular Storage News in 2014

Below are the top 16 most popular storage news in 2014 classified by the number of visitors – more than 4,000. Note that the number one is a joke, always appreciated each year by our readers. We have already a tremendous one for next April 1, if the news is not confirmed until publication.

Top 16 most popular storage news in 2014

Ranking	Date	Title	? of visitors
1	2014-04-01	Seagate Acquires WD for $16 Billion, New Company Named SeaWest April fool press release totally invented by StorageNewsletter.com	20,507
2	2014-02-05	Top Fastest Growing Storage Companies in 2013 Among start-ups and/or private companies revealing figures	18,461
3	2014-02-19	Top 12 Storage Companies in 2013 #1 EMC, #2 WD, #3 Seagate	15,748
4	2014-01-02	Top Storage Trends for 2014 – Editor Many already in place but also new ones	14,194
5	2014-01-08	Storage Start-Ups in 2013 $1.3 billion invested in 57 companies following 58 financial rounds	10,915
6	2014-01-03	All M&As – 73 – in 2013 Same number in 2012: top ones are …	7,293
7	2014-01-31	Most Reliable HDDs After Analyzing 25,000 Units – Backblaze 1/ HGST, 2/ WD, 3/ Seagate	7,126
8	2014-06-19	Storage Dictionary (SNIA) Terms and definitions related to storage and other information technologies	5,782
9	2014-04-03	DCIG Ranked 39 All-Flash Systems From 20 Companies 1/ Nimbus, 2/ HP 3par, 3/ HDS	5,230
10	2014-01-22	QLogic Acquires Brocade FC and CNA Business Financial terms not disclosed	4,556
11	2014-01-17	CEOs Call for Big Data, IT to Lead Investment Decisions – IDG Enterprise High/critical priority for 60% of enterprises and 46% of SMBs	4,448
12	2014-09-02	Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Array Leaders are EMC, IBM and Pure Storage.	4,405
13	2014-11-26	EMC Top One in General-Purpose Disk Arrays – Gartner HP, HDS, NetApp, IBM and Dell other leaders	4,238
14	2014-09-03	NetApp, Fujitsu and IBM With Best Mid-Range Unified Storage Arrays Reports DCIG in buyer’s guide	4,218
15	2014-04-17	IBM: Fiscal 1Q14 Financial Results Catastrophic: storage hardware revenue down 23% from 1Q13 to 1Q14	4,196
16	2014-10-02	2014 Market Brand Leaders for Enterprise Backup – IT Brand Pulse EMC, Symantec and CommVault	4,027