Milestone: 40,000th News Item Published on StorageNewsletter.com

StorageNewsletter.com published news each day of the year, excluding Saturday and Sunday.

Since the launch of this web site on November 14, 2007. we have just missed five days for technical reasons.

This news is the 40,000th one. Approximately 19 news have been published daily on average, including the daily Top News being the more appreciated by visitors.

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

The top ten most visited news since the first one:

Visits*	News	Date
65283	Gartner Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays	Mar. 27, 2013
45102	Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving	Dec. 27, 2013
45023	NetApp to Acquire EMC for $9.5 Billion (Joke)	Apr. 1, 2011
42185	When Will SSD Have Same Price as HDD	Apr. 4, 2013
40671	Apple Ordered 12PB (!) of Storage on Isilon’s Systems	Apr. 6, 2011
33406	Datacenter Wars: Cisco Prepares to Fire by Acquiring Nutanix	May 15, 2015
30316	Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays	Dec. 6, 2011
29946	Dell Positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Midrange Disk Arrays	Dec.10, 2009
28908	As Expected, Lenovo Acquired IBM’s Entire Storage Business, for $3.4 Billion, (Joke)	Apr. 1, 2015
26792	Seagate Acquires WD for $16 Billion, New Company Named SeaWest (Joke)	Apr. 1, 2014

* Some 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 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 (Nov. 2007 to Aug. 2015)

Since the first day of the web site, 5,077,875 visits have been registered corresponding to 8,003,397 pages viewed by 2,782,733 unique visitors. On average, each visitor look at 1.58 page and remains on the
site 1mn and 24s.

For the last 12 months, the figures are: 988,642 visits, 1,540,588 page views, and 535,584 visitors.

Where the visitors come from:
(during last month, top ten countries)

1	USA	49.0%
2	UK	5.0%
3	India	4.4%
4	Japan	4.2%
5	Germany	4.1%
6	France	3.4%
7	Taiwan	2.1%
8	Canada	1.9%
9	Australia	1.8%
10	Singapore	1.7%
	Others	22.5%
	TOTAL	100%

Who are the visitors
When we consult the current list of subscribed visitors receiving daily our newsletter by email – currently 23,000 – 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 get more information more about their suppliers, 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 small 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 and loyal visitors.

See you for more information on our web site for our 50,000th news item to come around August 2017.