StorageNewsletter.com: FY21 Financial Results

(in €)	FY20	FY21
Revenue	298,974	314,168
*Growth*		5%
Net income (loss)	143,330	164,513

Private companies generally do not published their financial results. It’s not the case for Micro-Journal SARL de Presse, old company born in 1974, revealing here its figures for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2021.

The company sole business is the publication of the daily Web site StorageNewsletter.com since 2007. It also sells annual subscriptions to get news older than 10 days, representing a small amount.

Before this web site, Micro-Journal published a monthly paid paper version, Computer Data Storage Newsletter, since February 1988, without ads. But, with the increase of Internet, nobody wanted anymore to pay to get information, and StorageNewsletter.com was launched on the Web, this time for free, but with ads.

Total revenue for FY21 reached €314,168 up 5.08% from €298,974 in FY20 with huge net income in comparison, being €164,513 and €143,330, respectively, up 5.0% and14.8% Y/Y.

“This is an excellent fiscal year in term of revenue and profitability for the company. Even if StorageNewsletter.com is 14-year old, it continues to grow like the global WW storage industry“, comments Editor.

Revenue comes essentially from the sales of ads with the following ranking:

Outside EU (essentially USA)	74%
EU (without France)	20%
France only	4%
Annual subscriptions to archiving news	2%
Total	100%

Currently StorageNewsletter.com records around 35,000 subscribers to its daily newsletter.

Here is the ranking of subscribers by continent with North America largely dominating:

Continent	%
North America	51.1
Europe	25.2
AsiaPac	18.4
Africa	2.5
Middle East	2.3
South America	0.4
Total	100.0

Published news by category

Category			%
Solid State (SSD, flash key, DNA, etc,)			16,9
Software			12,8
Systems (RAID, NAS, SAN			10,4
OEM/channel/distribution			8,5
Cloud online backup, SSPs, MSPs			8,2
People			8,2
Customer wins			7,5
Financial results			6,7
HDDs			3,9
Business (others)			3,1
Security			3.0
Miscellaneous			2,6
Connectivity (swith/HBA,interface)			2,5
M&A			2,1
Start-ups			1,6
Tapes			1,5
Optical			0,8
Consumer electronics			0.0
Total			100%

Here are the most popular articles this year according to the number of visitors:
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage: 5,370
2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage: 3,893
Storage Battle Between AWS GCP and Azure Continues: 3,835
Vendors Predictions for 2021: 3,617
Document: SSD Manufacturers in the World: 3,547
Top Fastest Growing Storage Companies in 2020: 3,263
AWS ≠1 Enterprise Storage Vendor by Revenue: 3,229
Pure Storage: Fiscal 2Q22 Financial Results: 3,097

“Expectations for next fiscal year are not easy to preview. We just hope to increase all our financial figures if the WW storage industry will probably continue to expand,” concluded Editor.