NEW WEB SITE!

Seven years is a long time in IT technology. StorageNewsletter.com was launched in November 14, 2007. The web site was originally designed by Jérôme Saiz, a security professional now at Qualys, and was working quite well. The new one is the result of the hard and excellent work of Raphaël Boccara from Pixeladdict with a new looking and a new editor based on open source WordPress. Note that here could some bugs in the next days. Sorry for that. We will also make some improvements in the next weeks.

To celebrate this new web site, here are some information proving the success of the daily StorageNewsletter.com, THE source of information on the worldwide storage industry.

More than 30,000 news (30,291) have been published up to now or an average of approximately 23 per day.

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

Record number of articles
by companies:

Companies	? of Visitors
EMC	2,572
IBM	2,456
Western Digital or WD	1,894
Hitachi or HGST	1,557
Seagate	968
(Source: StorageNewsletter)

Record number of articles by words:

Word	? of Visitors
storage	25,532
solution	19,876
system	18,515
product	18,498
announce	16,181
customer	15,365
support	14,552
performance	13,488
software	13,093
user	11,l64
network	10,314
partner	9,294
backup	9,028
disk	8,853
SAN	8,378
cloud	7,104
(Source: StorageNewsletter)

? of articles published per category

Category	% of articles
Business	25.1%
Software	14.1%
Solid State (SSD, flash key, etc.)	8.1%
People	6.5%
OEM/Channel/Distribution	6.4%
Security	5.9%
Customer Wins	5.5%
Hard Disk Drives	5.1%
Connectivity (switch/HBA/interface)	4.5%
Cloud, Online backup, SSPs, MSPs	3.2%
Optical	2.6%
Market Reports/Research	2.1%
Systems (RAID, NAS, SAN)	2.1%
Financial Results	1.8%
Tapes	1.5%
M&As	1.3%
Start-ups	1.1%
Consumer Electronics	0.5%
Miscellaneous	2.6%
TOTAL	100.0%
(Source: StorageNewsletter)

How many visitors and who are they?
24,995 people are currently subscribers of our newsletter they receive each day and containing the titles of each news as well as the Top News of the day. With the other people going directly on our web site, total is 57,205 unique visitors for the last month, according to Google Analytics.

Profile of readers
(Based on a significant sample)

Activity	%
Hardware manufacturer, software publisher	53.8%
OEM, integrator, VAR, distributor, resellers	21.8%
End User	8.7%
Other	15.7%
TOTAL	100.0%
(Source: StorageNewsletter)

Region	%
North America	56.2%
Europe	28,7%
AsiaPac	10.9%
Middle East	2.1%
Africa	1.3%
South America	0.8%
TOTAL	100.0%
(Source: StorageNewsletter)

For calendar year 2013, StorageNewsletter.com will generate approximately €100,000 in revenue and the publishing company, Micro-Journal SARL, is largely profitable. About all the sales come from sponsors that publish banners or are using our subscription list to promote their activity by send emailings that we restrict to only three of them per week to avoid to bother our subscribers. The problem now is that we have a long list of companies waiting to send their emailing – it’s full for the next two months. That’s why we intend to increase our price by 20% at the end of the year and why we project a revenue growth of over 20% in 2014.

Today our web site is totally free of charge for any visitors to read anyone of our 30,000+ news already published. In our roadmap, we intend to let the news for free for one week. For all the news published after 7 days, we will charge an affordable price of €99 per year per subscriber.

Other information on StorageNewsletter.com:
220,188th most visited website in the world, 118,612th most visited website in United States (Source Woorank)
Trust indicator at 70% (Source: Woorank)
“Congratulations! Your website’s speed is fully optimized.” (Source: Woorank)
1,58 pages per visit in August 2013 (Google Analytics)
80,517 visits in August 2013 (Google Analytics)
127,088 page views in August 2013 (Google Analytics)