Milestone: 10,000th News Item Published on StorageNewsletter.com

Since the launch of this Web site on November 14, 2007, 10,000 news have been published or an average of 18.8 per day.

They have been published each day of the week, excluding Saturday and Sunday. We have missed only three days for technical reasons.

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: 10,000 News Published on StorageNewsletter.com

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 (Number 3 in 2009).

The top ten most visited news since the first one:

• 3,465: Seagate Savvio: 2.5-Inch, 15,000rpm, 6Gb SAS, 73GB and 146GB (November 3, 2008)
• 3,000: LaCie Boosts USB With New Driver (December 11, 2008)
• 2,418: Imation to Offer 500GB RDX Removable Disk Cartridge (June 5, 2008)
• 2,295: NTI Shipping Backup Now 5 for Backup, Recovery and Migration (January 5, 2008)
• 2,122: LSI Engenio DE6900: 4U Enclosure for 60 SATA HDDs and 8Gb FC Connections (November 19, 2008)
• 2,119: HP to OEM LSI Storage Virtualization Appliance (October 15, 2008
• 2,048: New Generation of HDS Mid-Range Systems AMS 2000 (October 14, 2008)
• 2,045: New Plextor MediaX
• 1,971: AT&T U-Verse Introduces Total Home DVR Playing Back on Any TV Throughout the Home (October 7, 2008)
• 1,938: LSI With HP for Storage Virtualization Platform (November 12, 2008)

The top ten most visited news in 2009:*

• 1,929: 500GB 7200rpm 2.5-Inch Portable Solution by OWC (June 1)
• 1,738: New HP EVA 6400/8400 (March 11)
• 1,567: Datex Designed a Floppy Disk Drive Emulator (January 5)
• 1,538: Slim External Blu-Ray Drive by Asus (June 12)
• 1,367: StarWind Brings Virtual SAN to VMware (April 8)
• 1,236: Acronis True Image Echo Now for Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform (February 6)
• 1,199: PXU-MS240 Mobile Storage Unit From Sony (May 7)
• 1,085: LSI Enhanced Engenio 7900 SAN (April 22)
• 1,078: EMC Co-Founder Dick Egan Kills Himself After a Battle With Lung Cancer (August 31)
• 1,070: Seagate Refuses to Sell High Capacity 2.5-Inch HDDs (October 2)

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

Since the launch of the Web site, the number of visitors has regularly increased as you can see on the chart below  – and this trend is going to continue as you will see when we will publish our next milestone – 20,000 news – in around two years, because this young site is far to be known by all the worldwide IT storage community. Ed. All the following figures come from Google Analytics.

The Number of Monthly Visitors of StorageNewsLetter.com
from November 2007 to September 2009

Since the first day of the Web site, 268,619 visits have been registered corresponding to 430,460 pages viewed by 201,505 unique visitors. On average, each visitor look at 1.60 page and remains on the site 1mn and 4s.

Here is the rank of the countries
where the visitors come from:

1. USA (45%)
2. France (8%)
3. UK ((7%)
4. Germany (4%)
5. Canada (3%)
6. Japan (3%)
7. India (2%)
8. Others (29%)

 

Who are the visitors
Google Analytics doesn’t give any information on the activity of the readers’ company. But when we consult the current list of subscribed visitors receiving daily our newsletter by email – currently 6,496 – they are, of course, hardware manufacturers and software publishers, but the bulk of them are in 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, the new ones, new storage concepts – generally coming from start-ups -, and the new products to orientate their strategy.

There are few end users, but big ones. When a company needs to update its storage infrastructure, it needs information. 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.